Moray Meccano Modellers

This year  we didn't really have one centerpiece as such, but in the front we put HMS Rodney . Several people asked if she was HMS Nelson, which is 99% correct as Rodney was a Nelson Class battleship. We put her onto a box with a simple cam under the "sea" so the children could turn the handle and make her pitch and roll.

My friend Bill in America sent me a picture of an aircraft he had made. I recognised it as Bleriot's Mark IX in which he first flew across the English Channel, and asked if I could have a copy of the plans. Bill said it was a Marklin kit, but sent the plans anyway together with some Marklin parts and I cobbled this model together.

The two flanking pieces were the shop models of a ferris wheel and Blackpool Tower owned by a local gentleman and loaned to me. (see the Models 4 pagejind by Jeremy's friend Kieren who exhibited  

We were also joined by Jeremy's friend Kieren who exhibited some of his models.

Sadly this was the weekend the snow started which brought Scotland to a standstill (you can see it through the window in some of the photos). Angus from Aberdeen was going to join me, but was unable to get to Elgin, and it also kept many of the visitors away, so it was both enjoyable and disappointing.

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Moray Modelfair 2010

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Bleriot's Mark IX aircraft  in which he made the first airborne crossing of the English Channel		This was made in Meccano from a Marklin kit plan which I obtained from a friend in America
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