some project ideas

[mklotz]

Looking for something unusual to model?

How about a steam outboard motor...

http://www.oldmarineengine.com/discus/messages/3428/130599.html

Here's another...

http://www.vallejogallery.com/item.php?id=269

Wallace and Gromit build a steam cannon...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wKVj5q5szU[/ame]

 

[ghart3]

Poly-Wog the outboard steam model was first published in Popular Mechanics in 1933 and Live Steam re-published it in Oct 1981.

Looked and didn't keep track of when finished this one. Never ran it in water, just on work bench.

 

[Jared]

Looked and didn't keep track of when finished this one. Never ran it in water, just on work bench.

Huh? You built a boat with a steam engine and never ran it in the water? I would have been putting it in the bathtub ASAP. I like it, BTW