The Model Engineers - Mini Documentary
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This short documentary dives into the world of model engineering, exploring what goes into building model locomotives, boats, steam trains, and the model railway to run them on.
Many thanks go to the Edinburgh Society of Model engineers for allowing me to film them at their site, The Almondell Model Engineering centre. The work they do with local schools and the astounding work on the model railway infrastructure is absolutely unbelievable!
I hope you enjoy this film and hope it portrays the infectious passion and enthusiasm the model engineers have for their craft. If you're interested in finding out more about them, visit there website: edinburgh-sme....
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Thanks for watching!
Kris.
Great film, we need more production values like this in the hobby.
Thanks Andrew, Much appreciated!
I completely agree. And I’m working on something to that end!
Proud of my Grandpa and my uncle Andrew along with the rest of the team in achieving this. Well done !
A very talented bunch of people indeed!
Yes I admire their skills too.. and nerves! BR, Basse
The hobby is underrepresented in the media, table top stuff getting most attention.
Absolutely wonderful video…so good I showed to my wife in an attempt to hopefully appreciate the hobby of model engineering. Well done to the folk who dedicated so much time and effort to build the railway.
Many thanks for your kind words Colin!
Even as one born into the digital age, I've always been fascinated by both the craft of model engineering, and old time machines and technology in general. Model engineering covers everything I like, from locomotives to engines and vehicles, and even machine shop tools and clockmaking. It's a craft I wish to pursue in the future 💙⚙️
I've visited a few engineering societies, but have to say that the setting the Armdale engineers have created is one of the most beautiful.
I worked 28 days a month for seven months to build the chassis of my narrow gage Mogul. It then sat on the bench for two years until I could get the boiler. I did finish the locomotive and have been operating it for 12 years.
Why did you tell us this ?
Brilliant Johnny, great effort! Must have been a great feeling taking it out for the first time!
@@pufango4059 I wanted to demonstrate the commitment required to complete a model engineering project.
@@pufango4059 Because it's directly relevant to the content of the film.
My father built a 4/6/0 locomotive, it took him over 20 years.
trains are very very amazing
That is a first class production. I was fascinated by the glossy coaches, they looked fit to travel in.
Wow, was not expecting such a high level of video editing and cinematography - that was incredible!
Nice
Superb video ,Models and Railway ! ,Thanks for sharing
What a beautifully made video, and look at those beautiful engines! Very well done indeed 👍. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Much appreciated!
Very good
I love his voice
Fantastic video! Loved it...
This is absolutely brilliant! Many thanks from your fellow Garden / Ride-on railway fanatics here in British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦!!!
You'll have to pop over to Britain. Model Engineering Clubs are WIDESPREAD & have been for Decades. Virtually EVERY medium to large size town in Central & Southern England has a club, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at weekends or Sundays at least, for MINIATURE STEAM TRAIN RIDES !!
Wow what a fantastic follow up video of model engineers !! These guys are gifted people to achieve such exact replicas if the real things !!
Of the real thing
Oh my days the 37, that's fantastic. Amazing work in general going on here. The evening star is literally a masterpiece.
what a smashing video that is, should be very proud!
Paul has been a customer of ours as long as I have been in my job, heard so much about this place. Great to see it, brilliant wee video and some amazing machines
We have something similar we’re I live in Washington state in the us, except it doesn’t go into this much detail, but we have scale railroads with steam engine machines and built by hand from scratch. It’s a really neat hobby. I’m currently just a conducter there.
This is WAY more detailed than what we have were I live, this is like beyond detail
The locos we have that are steam burn gas(fuel) instead of coal.
Beautiful
I Love Modell Trains! You have to Check Out in Switzerland. It's the BIGGEST modell Train Park i know.... ITS HUGE!!!!!
Model Engineering Clubs are WIDESPREAD IN BRITAIN & have been for Decades. Virtually EVERY medium to large size town in Central & Southern England has a club, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at weekends or Sundays at least, for MINIATURE STEAM TRAIN RIDES !!
This is your second video...daynm your good
Great video! I currently have a G scale garden railroad, but one day i will build my own steam locomotive.
Excellent, great camera and editing work, captured the essence of our hobby. V.O. was a bit florid for me, probably works better too inspire watchers outside not in the hobby. Still the whole package was a unexpected delight. More like this please.
Thanks Jim! You're correct, I was hoping this would give people outside the world if model engineering a taste for what it's all about. Appreciate the comment!
Awesome production worthy of first class engineers well done guys.
Very interesting documentary
Absolutely fantastic film, loved it.
Very nice film and great promotion for this magnificent hobby.
Nice film 🎥
Stunning video!
Fantastic video
This is absolutely spectacular, this work is a masterpiece
Model Engineering Clubs are WIDESPREAD & have been for Decades. Virtually EVERY medium to large size town in Central & Southern England has a club, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at weekends or Sundays at least, for MINIATURE STEAM TRAIN RIDES !!
@@JamesSmith-mv9fp It’s incredible! But I really want to point out your filmography skills, which are absolutely stellar!
Fantastic video many thanks for bringing it to us.
Thanks Gary, glad you enjoyed!
what an underrated channel with astounding videography quality, well done! great documentary! you really deserve more subs!
Great job and well done
A Fantastic video. Well done!
Many thanks for all your help Andrew!
I admire your skills.. and even more your nerves!! BR, Basse the Finn
Love the Britannia. Great video.
I love trains & railways ❤️
Superb little film.
This is the definition of nirvana for me
Model Engineering Clubs are WIDESPREAD & have been for Decades. Virtually EVERY medium to large size town in Central & Southern England has a club, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at weekends or Sundays at least, for MINIATURE STEAM TRAIN RIDES !!
What an amazing video and what a nice looking railway
Superb in every sense.
Great!
Magical
Beautiful film.
very inspiring
This film made my day.Thank you!,
Very impressive
Wow! Great vid
This is a fantastic video! Thanks so much for making it!
Great film
Thanks Daniel, appreciated and thanks for taking the time to speak with me! Cheers! Kris.
1:44 a model of the PS Waverley's engine if I'm not mistaken
Absolutely correct, good spot Carl 👍
My great wish is that your hobby will combine with one they have here in Holland 🇳🇱 in Den Haag in “het Zuiderpark” ( Stoomgroepwest.NL) which is not as big as we seen in this video but still have the same enthusiastic people who are doing the same enthusiastic things and share their knowledge 👍👍❤️ thank you for sharing this beautiful video with me
Model Engineering Clubs are WIDESPREAD IN BRITAIN & have been for Decades. Virtually EVERY medium to large size town in Central & Southern England has a club, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at weekends or Sundays at least, for MINIATURE STEAM TRAIN RIDES !!
Very moving video. The passion these guys have to their hobby is inspirational.
Model Engineering Clubs are WIDESPREAD & have been for Decades. Virtually EVERY medium to large size town in Central & Southern England has a club, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at weekends or Sundays at least, for MINIATURE STEAM TRAIN RIDES !!
Looks really nice :)
THis is so beautiful!
Well done. Thankyou for sharing. It is inspiration for me to get my 4-8-4 1.5" scale finished.
That's great to hear Peter, I'm really glad it has! I know the effort you and others put in to building these is enormous but the end results are really spectacular.
Would that be a 25NC, Peter?
@@cricciethcastle5077 I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "25NC"? This loco was designed by Henry Greenly! He designed a Hudson 4-6-4, which is identical to my Northern Pacific. The main difference was driver diameter. The length over the 3 or 4 axles were both 24 inches. Quite clever really. I have a steel Briggs boiler (I'm in Oz) 103/4" od. While I've followed HG's plans fairly closely, as I've learnt new things, I put them into the project. I've been at this for 42 years. A bit ashamed of that number but I've never lost my desire to finish it and run the big girl.
@@peterpocock9062 The 25NC is a South African Railways 4-8-4, running on 3'6" gauge. The NC is short for non-condensing. A large number were also built as condensers for the dry terrain - class 25C. Nearly all were converted to non-condensers as electrification was rolled out. I know that a model engineer in the UK is building one, and I think he can supply castings. It would be a massive loco in 7 1/4". HG's book "Model Steam Locomotives" compares the loading gauges (p9). There are lots of youtube videos of them in service, especially on the Kimberley to De Aar "racetrack". Good luck with your project - it will be wonderful to get her out on the "main line"!!
@@cricciethcastle5077 Thanks for the clarification. A friend of mine in South Australia built a South African n.g. 4-8-4 in 2" scale, 7.25 inch gauge. It is bigger than mine by a bit, (mine is 1.5 inch scale). It was a great loco to drive and boy it can sure pull!
Nice short film.
Very impressive, great work there!
Appreciate it James!
Congratulations on producing a great presentation well scripted, videoed and narrated.
Great
This is great. This is the kind of thing that could help bring British industry back. These guys are keeping the passion and the skills alive and passing it on to the next generations. At a science and research level Britain is still very active. It's all still there, we just need British capital to show a bit of faith in British industrial engineering and for a government to realise industry is important and to create favourable conditions for that investment. Of course we'll be using clean energy in the future world... However I have been wondering lately if there might be some place for all of the UK's coal in an interim solution
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Model Engineering Clubs are WIDESPREAD & have been for Decades. Virtually EVERY medium to large size town in Central & Southern England has a club, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at weekends or Sundays at least, for MINIATURE STEAM TRAIN RIDES !!
@@JamesSmith-mv9fp That's good, but not on the scale of this one. I live in Southern England and there's no need to shout, this isn't the Daily Mail ;-)
Mint documentary Kris. Love that. 🚂
Cheers Robin, Don't think I'd have the skills to drive one never mind build one of those 😄
@@scotdocs1794 well your vid done them justice. 😁 👍🏻
This this great
been to a place like this in Vancouver canada, its amazing to see these models but its also funny to me that our love for trains lead us to making mini trains to ride for fun. kinda wish they got creative with the models too i mean why settle for the classics when they could design the model shell to be anything like a future looking train or what ever
What a video!!!!
Cheers Eric, much appreciated!
GET YOUR MINIATURE STEAM TRAIN RIDE HERE !!!
Maybe it would have been wise to tell the General Public, that Model Engineering is actually widespread. Certainly in Central & Southern England virtually all medium to large size towns have an engineering club with outdoor tracks, usually OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at Weekends or Sundays for STEAM TRAIN rides !!!!
Check out the clubs in the West Midlands 😮
beautifully shot, did you grade it yourself or is it a LUT? you deserve far more followers, i'm sure they will come.
I graded it myself, it's one of my favourite parts of the process. Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated!
How can I follow the drawings of the engineer's model Western Maryland "Columbia" 3 1/2 locomotive by Martins Evans?
These is a good add can that run a 3/12 inch gauge
Any chance of this comment in English ?
3.5 inch gauge is not that common anymore, as it's a bit on the small side to haul people around on. Most British Clubs (& there are dozens all over Britain). Use 5 inch gauge, 7.25 inch gauge & less frequently 10.25 inch gauge.
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A very good video though having made all sorts of models from stationary ,locos , boats , cars , machines etc. Building the traction engine requires more skill.
How do you come to that conclusion ?
@@pufango4059 With the exception of say a rack locomotive or a logging engine locomotives tend not to have gears.
A traction engines boiler forms the chassis so everything is fastened to it. Lining up a cylinder on a curve with a weigh shaft bracket and the the gearbox comes with its own troubles. Then the boiler expands and your timing is out so compensation is made for that. Ploughing engines have their own issues of their own and a compound engine has a lot of workings in a small space.
A locomotive on the other hand has a set of frames that everything else is fastened to. So small sub assemblies.
The traction engine also has splined shafts to be cut of the solid and a set of bevel gears to machine.
Wheels on a traction engine are riveted together and in a heavy haulage engine are a task in itself.
@@pufango4059 From experience.
@@cricciethcastle5077Yes, having built both.
I dont think there has been a serious documentary series on tv, which is sad.
Indeed there was, by the well known (but now deceased) Bob Symes, who did all sorts of programmes on Model railways including outdoor Model Engineering, for the BBC for over 30 years !!!!
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where is this
www.visitwestlothian.co.uk/things-to-do/art-culture/almondell-model-engineering-centre/
Cudo
Do they get paid for that?
No, it's all built by the club members and volunteers, quite impressive!
Your voice is made of chocolate
How much did the voice over guy get paid??
The only payment was getting to spend time with this great bunch of folks and a wee film I'm proud of 🙂
If they close the coal mines then you will not really be able to continue
You could always use BBQ charcoal. The public would never allow the politicians to ban that!
@@cricciethcastle5077 There a lot of things the general public don’t want to see ban but if we continue down the current climate path they will ban anything that produces emissions
There is good steam loco coal in Britain, as it is needed for the HUNDREDS of full size real preserved steam locos in Britain !!! (Most but not all Coal mines were closed decades ago).
Nice