| (Code: MP217) | These instructions describe the construction of a totally new model to be built with the contents of a Set 10 based on the iconic Meccano Supermodel (Leaflet No. 4). Much improved on the inferior Set 10 model this is new design is rugged and reliable. The new model incorporates major improvements such as an all-new gear box which provides four independent movements, with forward and reverse, controlled by levers grouped in the cab with the motor remaining in mesh with the main drive axle and running in a constant direction.
With 28 pages of text and colour photographs.
Please note these Model Plans are designed by individual Meccano modellers and may use parts not currently available. The level of instruction detail is dependent on the original modeller and varies from plan to plan. These are instructions only. |
| | (Code: M-SAMS1) | These Instructions describe the building of one of a series of medium-scale models by distinguished South African Meccano modellers, professionally edited and presented by Anthony Els
A single speed motor powers four movements using control levers inside the cab for level luffing, hoist, slew plus forward and reverse travel.
16 page booklet with full-colour, 3D VirtualMec drawings of every unit and assembly.
Please note these Model Plans are designed by individual Meccano modellers and may use parts not currently available. The level of instruction detail is dependent on the original modeller and varies from plan to plan. These are instructions only.
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| | (Code: MP249) |
These instructions describe the building of a well-known model of a Ransomes and Rapier W14 Walking Dragline on the covers of 1950's set manuals has been redesigned for building with a Set 10 plus a few extra parts.
Its five movements - walking, slewing, luffing, hoisting and dragging are controlled independently from one side of the model using two PDU motors via a simplified mechanism.
An improvedmain bearing, using Large Toothed Quadrants, provides smooth and realistic slewing.
28 pages including text, diagrams, colour photographs and parts list.
Please note these Model Plans are designed by individual Meccano modellers and may use parts not currently available. The level of instruction detail is dependent on the original modeller and varies from plan to plan. These are instructions only.
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| | (Code: M-SAMS5) | These instructions from the South African Meccano Models series describe a model designed and built by the late Colin Cohen. this is a smaller-scale yet fully-functioning model of the same prototype as ModelPlan 190.
A 12 page booklet with full building instructions and full-colour, 3D VirtualMec drawings of every unit and assembly
Please note these Model Plans are designed by individual Meccano modellers and may use parts not currently available. The level of instruction detail is dependent on the original modeller and varies from plan to plan. These are instructions only.
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| | (Code: MP210) | Folding-jib cranes are designed for urban building sites where long reach is required and access is restricted by neighbouring buildings. The model stands 5' tall (or 7' with tower extension) with a reach of 3', yet is stable enough for safe demonstration at public exhibitions. Powered by three C177 motors with infra-red control and battery pack from the modern multi-model sets, the model can also use M0 or other motors.
12 pages including colour photographs plus a separately-stapled 12-page booklet of coloured 3D constructional diagrams and parts list
Please note these Model Plans are designed by individual Meccano modellers and may use parts not currently available. The level of instruction detail is dependent on the original modeller and varies from plan to plan. These are instructions only. |
| | (Code: MP227) |
These instruction describe the construction of this iconic model, a Meccano Ltd. competition winner, was designed by Hugh Henry in 1955 and first published as an MW ModelPlan (MP101) in 1998.
With the help of Richard Payn, who has rebuilt this complex model and incorporated many detail improvements, Mike Edkins has published new and vastly more detailed and clearer building instructions, now published as a set of 5 booklets, with text, isometric drawings and nearly 100 photographs.
The plan is in two parts, covering the undercarriage and superstructure separately.
The complete model weighs approx. 28lb and copies all the features and functions of the original KL66.
Please note these Model Plans are designed by individual Meccano modellers and may use parts not currently available. The level of instruction detail is dependent on the original modeller and varies from plan to plan. These are instructions only. |
| | (Code: MP240) |
These instructions describe the building of a Scissor Lift Platform powered by a Meccano "Cube" motor, with steering, forward and reverse movement, and platform raise and lower functions controlled from the rear end.
To help the lifting action, the cord from the ram is routed to pull the front leg rearwards.
16 pages including text and colour photographs, plus a separately-stapled, 8-page booklet of diagrams with parts list.
Please note these Model Plans are designed by individual Meccano modellers and may use parts not currently available. The level of instruction detail is dependent on the original modeller and varies from plan to plan. These are instructions only.
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| | (Code: MP143) |
These instructions describe the construction of the iconic model featured on the cover of Meccano instruction manuals. This was in fact never built by Meccano, but was the result of artistic and technical illustration skills by W H Pinyon. Pinyon was retained by Meccano Ltd to develop a set manual cover design for Meccano's thrust into the market place after the war years. He used original photography from the 1920s and, with fine artistry, modified and instilled the old photographs with the enthusiasm of childhood, and the added warmth and charm of a hearthside fire.
The Pinyon Blocksetter's history is entwined with the Classic long boom blocksetter of 1928, perhaps the finest creation of the Meccano model building room, and possibly the most important Meccano image of all time. This crane was used to grace the covers of Meccano publications and manuals right through the 30s, but instructions were never issued for building it. Instead, Meccano produced a simpler version as SML 4. Nevertheless, even this version could not be built with any of the then current outfits. It was particularly noted for its shorter, more centrally balanced boom, and for the use of the Meccano geared roller bearing Part No 167.
This model is based on Pinyon's illustration, with many hours of research (over a period of a few years), and incorporating some discoveries of the last few years.
The twenty page text instructions, with parts list and diagrams is supplemented by eight pages of colour & b/w photographs. Also included is a full colour A3 size reproduction of a 1950's Outfit No.9 cover.
Please note these Model Plans are designed by individual Meccano modellers and may use parts not currently available. The level of instruction detail is dependent on the original modeller and varies from plan to plan. These are instructions only. |
| | (Code: M-SAMS4) | These instructions from the South African Meccano Models series describe the construction of an excellent working model by Bill Steele, based on an advertisement illustration from an early 1950's Meccano Magazine, for which no plan was ever published.
An 8 page booklet with full building instructions and full-colour, 3D VirtualMec drawings of every unit and assembly
Please note these Model Plans are designed by individual Meccano modellers and may use parts not currently available. The level of instruction detail is dependent on the original modeller and varies from plan to plan. These are instructions only.
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