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It's always cool when the big motorcycle manufacturers shake hands with toy makers and deliver spectacular items that please the eyes and the minds of both kids and adults. The latest to do so is ...

A Meccano model of Teesside's Newport Bridge, which took an enthusiast a year of painstaking work to construct, is about to be dismantled. The Newport Bridge Model, comprising thousands of parts and ...

A model maker has used Meccano to create his own version of new trains that will run on the Tyne and Wear Metro. John Herdman spent three months making the remote-controlled miniature, which includes ...

The Krupp 288 bucket wheel excavator was constructed in five years At the time of Shepherd’s build of the Krupp 288, the cost of the project, using factory-made parts, would have been over ...

Further in, toys and models, not only by Meccano but from Lego and other competitors, litter every surface, all for Fleuet to tinker with as he dreams up new designs. In an average year he comes up ...

A unique Tyne and Wear Metro train has been recreated in Meccano thanks to one man’s labour of love. It was built by expert model maker John Herdman from Whickham in Gateshead. John, 70, spent three ...

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Mr Hornby was born in Liverpool in 1863 and without any formal training in engineering or design he went on to create some of Britain's best-loved toys of the 20th century, based on simple mechanical ...

A model maker has used Meccano to create his own version of new trains that will run on the Tyne and Wear Metro. John Herdman spent three months making the remote-controlled miniature, which includes ...