This is how I remember my childhood. Easy, including because of the abundance of interesting equipment and iron around. My parents, especially my dad, surrounded me from a young age with very interesting things - either an engine from a Cossack on the kitchen table, or a color tube TV dismantled for repair, or a Mriya portable radiogram that could play gramophone records in the air. But most importantly, my parents sometimes bought me various interesting designers. And the set "Electrical engineering in 200 experiments" was the most memorable for me.
Photo from the Virtual Museum and Directory - Domestic Radio Engineering of the 20th century
Now, unfortunately, they do not do such things, including abroad. I constantly look at the shelves of stores with toys both in our country and when I travel around Europe. There is nothing like it. And this constructor was good because it combined a lot of different parts and components, from which it was possible to assemble both toys and conduct entertaining physical and electrical experiments. For example, it was possible to assemble a telegraph.
Photo from Made in Leningrad community
Or an electric motor-fan, or a home-made galvanic battery, in general, the designer corresponded to the name - you could collect two hundred unique crafts, not counting your own ones.
And now, when my son is growing up, I also want to surround him with interesting technical things. And one of them is such a constructor. I don’t want to buy incomplete used ones 30 years ago, because incomplete sets are a tragedy :) Yes, and it’s almost impossible to find it at flea markets. But it is quite possible to assemble something similar from the available parts, and without much effort.
First, the base, the usual inexpensive metal construction kits that you can still buy in toy stores.
And secondly, what will enliven this constructor, will add movement. These are motors, wires and batteries. Where to take them? Ha, I'm sure if you have children, you know what Chinese toys are. They are certainly bought as a gift to children by both parents and grandmothers, acquaintances, guests of parents. All these flying dogs, jumping cars, barking planes - all this breaks down in an hour (day, week) and flies into the trash. But in my case they fly into the trash only after extracting the main treasure from them :)
DC motors. Taking into account the fact that I have four children growing up, this wealth has accumulated a lot. How can these motors help? But what. Somehow a couple of years ago, my son and I were tinkering with my tools and I suddenly suggested to him, let's assemble a car from a stick. Who wouldn't agree to this? We took a piece of some kind of bar, a motor, nails, a AAA battery and bungled it in 30 minutes.
From nails and sticks, literally, an unsightly self-propelled toy turned out. The child did not let go of her hands all evening, and then showed to all the guests - "Look, what a limousine we made with dad!" That's when I decided it's time to do things like this on a more serious level. First we put together a windmill, a memorable object from our last trip to Europe.
It turned out so cool that there was only one thing left to do: stock up on parts for such crafts in sufficient, industrial quantities :) In the market, I bought all sorts of switches, battery holders, rubber bands. Grandmothers and friends were told that now our best gift is a metal constructor. And after a while, my son and I became the owners of the coolest set possible. You could start creating.
Our next craft is an airplane. Twin engine fighter.
Where there is a plane, there is a helicopter. The son built two additional floors on the rotor, so it seemed to him better.
The child played with this helicopter toy for the longest time, because the main rotor was easily used as a grinder's circular saw - a lot of things in the house were cut by a helicopter - to the delight of mom :)
Now she walks reluctantly, it is necessary to adjust the mechanism.
But immediately after the manufacture of the stepping machine, as her son called her, everyone was very amused with a cheerful tread :)
And the latest of our crafts. To make it, I bought a radio control kit on Aliexpress, a remote control with a receiver, a motor with a gearbox and wheels, a steering servo drive and a motor control scarf. All these things are available on Ali in a shaft of various sizes, capacities, and capabilities. We made a radio-controlled tricycle with full control - gas, brake, steering.
There are so many fools in this frenzied tricycle that it is difficult to start without slipping. But it is easy to make a police U-turn.
Below is a video of an unequal battle between a mad car and a caterpillar. My son and I collected a caterpillar for an exhibition in a kindergarten, where we needed a handicraft made from natural material, well, we built a real slow caterpillar from coconuts, chestnuts and constructor elements. Due to the slowness of the caterpillar, the video is slightly delayed.
Such wonderful things can be made from an ordinary metal constructor, fragments of old toys and a certain number of purchased parts. The only necessary skill for parents is to be able to solder a little, without this it will be difficult with all these wires, switches and batteries. And, of course, fantasy, but usually children have even more of it than adults, so involve the child, he will tell you what to do.
There is, of course, another way. For example, ready-made Lego sets. Lego has a windmill.
There are all sorts of racing cars and trucks.
In general, Lego has everything, including robots and kits for setting up and programming them.
But personally, I don’t have a soul for Lego. And my son has problems with Lego, once he dropped the toy, and it was shattered into small cubes, it’s very insulting to collect everything again. And Lego costs a lot, especially interactive robotic kits with motors or limited editions of all sorts of starships from Star Wars. Our metal will be more budgetary, even taking into account the purchase of remotes on Ali.
There is also the original metal constructor, Meccano. But again, it is very expensive and it is not easy to get it in our area. Therefore, here is the final photo of our wealth.
In Soviet times, children's metal constructors were very popular - sets of strips and plates of different sizes, with holes and fastening screws. Although the expression "iron toys" at one time was pronounced with derision, but as life has shown, plastic toys are much worse. Especially if it's cheap toxic material from China. It is not surprising that many parents prefer eco-friendly wooden or iron ones. Therefore, silumin models of cars are 2-3 times more expensive than plastic ones. But back to the designer from this review. In the photo below, half of the elements are no longer there (let's go), but the essence is clear.
He was bought by friends through an online store, for only 600 rubles, as a gift to his son. The set is called "Super wagon", and believe me - it fully justifies its prefix "super-"! In addition, such a thing is, as it were, a preparatory stage for mastering electronics for kids, showing how complex structures are obtained from individual simple parts.
In a convenient plastic box, there are a lot of all sorts of details, and not just cadmium ones, and painted in various colors with durable powder paint. The developers even provided for such useful little things as a crane hook, nylon rope, rollers and several types of wheels.
Complete set of the designer
- 1. Plank - 36 pcs.
- 2. Corner - 10 pcs.
- 3. Plate - 25 pcs.
- 4. Hood - 1 pc.
- 5. Stove - 3 pcs.
- 6. Fork - 5 pcs.
- 7. Bracket - 11 pcs.
- 8. Disc - 2 pcs.
- 9. Roller - 7 pcs.
- 10. Large wheel - 4 pcs.
- 11. Small wheel - 2 pcs.
- 12. Wheel - 4 pcs.
- 13. Tire - 4 pcs.
- 14. Hairpin - 5 pcs.
- 15. Axle - 4 pcs.
- 16. Cord - 2m.
- 17. Pen - 2 pcs.
- 18. Screw - 74 pcs.
- 19. Nut - 96 pcs.
- 20. Key - 3 pcs.
- 21. Screwdriver - 1 pc.
- 21. Instruction
The instructions have a dozen samples of what can be assembled from such a set, but it is clear that by connecting a minimal fantasy, the number of possible designs is unlimited. Here is just a small part of what I managed to photograph in the process:
Photo of crafts from an iron constructor
Machine
Helicopter
Airplane
self-propelled gun
Tank
Lantern with lamps
Motorcycle
Tractor
Sofa
Crane
In general, at such a ridiculous price, we get not one kind of car or tank, but a whole bunch of all sorts of toys. Tired of one - dismantled and folded a new one, and so at least every day. And most importantly - they do not break, unlike delicate plastic ones. Unless you can bend, but this is fixable :)
Discuss the article CHILDREN'S IRON CONSTRUCTION
Hello friends. For a very long time I did not do reviews of handicrafts of creative personalities. Everyone could not find time for this, conducting his master classes, traveling around IT exhibitions () and starting his mini-journey and the changes that he wrote about in the blog.
I will send descriptions to the pictures and the works themselves, and the author will announce himself in the comments, if he wants.
The first sets began to be made already in 1901 in England.
Initially, the idea was to create working layouts to demonstrate projects, such as bridges.
But the material from which the layouts were assembled must be universal. This is how the idea of using perforated strips was born. Therefore, their models are unique in terms of the complexity of mechanical solutions and design beauty.
Motor:
Elevator control unit (stacker):
It's like a Tiger tank.
AN-2. It seems like it.
Mini model. The idea is taken from foreigners, but all the details are ours.
Cubism. Angular sides of large and small cubes. The big one is assembled from the standard corners of the designer, and in a small cube I put my parts to connect the sides. The gap is minimal.
I took a retro car from Meccano (red) assembled from our parts except for wheels, headlights and a cover on the hood.
I made templates for the manufacture of cover sheets from different companies. So far, only from the Yunost 4 set converted to a millimeter standard. And sheets from the GDR Construction 100 set. There are some duplicate drawings, this is to fill in the sheet. Some parts are reminiscent of the Mercur set.
Drawn in Word. It seems that it turned out not bad, but it is better to make templates on graph paper. It will be more accurate.
I will take the material from the covers of accounting folders. There are folders with normal thickness. I would like more, but what we have, then we will use it ..
I punch holes with a set of punches for punching holes in rubber. It is not expensive, it costs about 300 rubles.
This is how the retro truck turned out from memory. There are homemade parts, these are hinges on the doors, wheels and many other reworked parts from our kits. A trial version of making impromptu headlights from ketchup caps. In principle, LEDs can be installed in these caps and power the headlights. It is possible to add this model with hinges on the body and a lifting mechanism for the body. Although the lifting mechanism is for a different type of truck. Or make a roof on the body or put an awning. I think from Lego, add colored parking lights. You can paint the wheels with black paint, it’s like highlighting the outer shoe, as if the model has rubber wheels.
What do people think, can manufacturers be recommended to create such a set?
How do I make loops.
Yes, the occupation is long, dreary and thankless. A little distracted and that's it ... a loop to release.
And so, we take a panel 5x5 or 5x10, better 5x10 where the metal is thinner and easier to bend. We unfold the turns on the panel on the anvil and outline the future blanks for the loops. Everything is visible in the photo.
Well, then it’s a matter of technology ... mode, bend, saw, nails mode, and drive the loops to each other.
Trying to make gear sets.
It turned out such an impromptu ... not a known model of the aircraft ... Objections and comments are accepted. 🙂
I decided to continue the collection of old tanks from the war. This time it is an English tank Cromvell Mk 4 (A27M). This is the first version of the model so far. I will clarify some small details, maybe I will add some small details on the tower. I won't install tracks yet. Perhaps I will put them on after disassembling the KV-1. You need to loosen up the wheels a bit more. The tank gun was made from a telescopic antenna.
Where two tanks are together, you can clearly see how the iron coating oxidizes in air. Becomes pale, dull, then begins to darken. Iron on the second tank lay all this time in the package. Designers were bought almost simultaneously. Conclusion: our coatings have poor carcass, although not all manufacturers of designers. Still shame!
Trying to make big wheels 3 and 4 option
Part of my instrument.
Here is the continuation of the retro series. This is a Parisian taxi from the beginning of the last century. This is not a complete analogue of any model. In those days there were a lot of models of this type, and the series of cars were very insignificant.
Mekano has worthy models for re-building, our material and technical base is very small and depends on the amateur's wallet. Not everyone wants to spend several thousand rubles on 3-4 dozen parts.
In short, the model is not yet the final version. I need to do the front bumper and the rear too. Might be worth putting a spare in the back. On the roof, make railings for suitcases.
In short, take another model for assembly from domestic parts for criticism. I tried to paint the wheels from a conventional aerosol can with alkyd enamel for interior and exterior work, it turned out not bad, in my opinion.
This is how I remember my childhood. Easy, including because of the abundance of interesting equipment and iron around. My parents, especially my dad, surrounded me from a young age with very interesting things - either an engine from a Cossack on the kitchen table, or a color tube TV dismantled for repair, or a Mriya portable radiogram that could play gramophone records in the air. But most importantly, my parents sometimes bought me various interesting designers. And the set "Electrical engineering in 200 experiments" was the most memorable for me.
Photo from the Virtual Museum and Directory - Domestic Radio Engineering of the 20th century
Now, unfortunately, they do not do such things, including abroad. I constantly look at the shelves of stores with toys both in our country and when I travel around Europe. There is nothing like it. And this constructor was good because it combined a lot of different parts and components, from which it was possible to assemble both toys and conduct entertaining physical and electrical experiments. For example, it was possible to assemble a telegraph.
Photo from Made in Leningrad community
Or an electric motor-fan, or a home-made galvanic battery, in general, the designer corresponded to the name - you could collect two hundred unique crafts, not counting your own ones.
And now, when my son is growing up, I also want to surround him with interesting technical things. And one of them is such a constructor. I don’t want to buy incomplete used ones 30 years ago, because incomplete sets are a tragedy :) Yes, and it’s almost impossible to find it at flea markets. But it is quite possible to assemble something similar from the available parts, and without much effort.
First, the base, the usual inexpensive metal construction kits that you can still buy in toy stores.
And secondly, what will enliven this constructor, will add movement. These are motors, wires and batteries. Where to take them? Ha, I'm sure if you have children, you know what Chinese toys are. They are certainly bought as a gift to children by both parents and grandmothers, acquaintances, guests of parents. All these flying dogs, jumping cars, barking planes - all this breaks down in an hour (day, week) and flies into the trash. But in my case they fly into the trash only after extracting the main treasure from them :)
DC motors. Taking into account the fact that I have four children growing up, this wealth has accumulated a lot. How can these motors help? But what. Somehow a couple of years ago, my son and I were tinkering with my tools and I suddenly suggested to him, let's assemble a car from a stick. Who wouldn't agree to this? We took a piece of some kind of bar, a motor, nails, a AAA battery and bungled it in 30 minutes.
From nails and sticks, literally, an unsightly self-propelled toy turned out. The child did not let go of her hands all evening, and then showed to all the guests - "Look, what a limousine we made with dad!" That's when I decided it's time to do things like this on a more serious level. First we put together a windmill, a memorable object from our last trip to Europe.
It turned out so cool that there was only one thing left to do: stock up on parts for such crafts in sufficient, industrial quantities :) In the market, I bought all sorts of switches, battery holders, rubber bands. Grandmothers and friends were told that now our best gift is a metal constructor. And after a while, my son and I became the owners of the coolest set possible. You could start creating.
Our next craft is an airplane. Twin engine fighter.
Where there is a plane, there is a helicopter. The son built two additional floors on the rotor, so it seemed to him better.
The child played with this helicopter toy for the longest time, because the main rotor was easily used as a grinder's circular saw - a lot of things in the house were cut by a helicopter - to the delight of mom :)
Now she walks reluctantly, it is necessary to adjust the mechanism.
But immediately after the manufacture of the stepping machine, as her son called her, everyone was very amused with a cheerful tread :)
And the latest of our crafts. To make it, I bought a radio control kit on Aliexpress, a remote control with a receiver, a motor with a gearbox and wheels, a steering servo drive and a motor control scarf. All these things are available on Ali in a shaft of various sizes, capacities, and capabilities. We made a radio-controlled tricycle with full control - gas, brake, steering.
There are so many fools in this frenzied tricycle that it is difficult to start without slipping. But it is easy to make a police U-turn.
Below is a video of an unequal battle between a mad car and a caterpillar. My son and I collected a caterpillar for an exhibition in a kindergarten, where we needed a handicraft made from natural material, well, we built a real slow caterpillar from coconuts, chestnuts and constructor elements. Due to the slowness of the caterpillar, the video is slightly delayed.
Such wonderful things can be made from an ordinary metal constructor, fragments of old toys and a certain number of purchased parts. The only necessary skill for parents is to be able to solder a little, without this it will be difficult with all these wires, switches and batteries. And, of course, fantasy, but usually children have even more of it than adults, so involve the child, he will tell you what to do.
There is, of course, another way. For example, ready-made Lego sets. Lego has a windmill.
There are all sorts of racing cars and trucks.
In general, Lego has everything, including robots and kits for setting up and programming them.
But personally, I don’t have a soul for Lego. And my son has problems with Lego, once he dropped the toy, and it was shattered into small cubes, it’s very insulting to collect everything again. And Lego costs a lot, especially interactive robotic kits with motors or limited editions of all sorts of starships from Star Wars. Our metal will be more budgetary, even taking into account the purchase of remotes on Ali.
There is also the original metal constructor, Meccano. But again, it is very expensive and it is not easy to get it in our area. Therefore, here is the final photo of our wealth.
Hello everyone!
With today's review, I want to continue a series of posts dedicated to miniature metal constructors (3D models). This time we will focus on the British four-engine heavy bomber, which was in service with the Royal Air Force, Avro 683 Lancaster. This aircraft was the main, along with the Halifax, heavy bomber of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Lancaster accounted for 3/4 of the entire bomb load dropped by British aircraft during World War II.
Due to the fact that there were a decent number of orders in the parcel, I agreed with the seller to send the parcel with a track. All tracking information is available.
So, the designer is supplied in a standard factory package for such a product, which is a cardboard envelope. Such an envelope has already been seen: on the front side there is a dandelion:
And on the back of the interesting there is only a sticker with the image of the assembled model.
The delivery set is also standard: instructions and a metal sheet with laser-cut construction elements.
There are still no complaints about the workmanship: the elements are cut out well, the pattern is also applied evenly and without flaws.
As written in the instructions, we start the assembly from the fuselage, then move on to the wings and landing gear:
The most difficult thing about assembling this model turned out to be the beautifully curved bombardier's cockpit and forward gun turret located in the forward fuselage module. There were also problems with the upper shooting tower, since the place of its attachment did not correspond to the dimensions. Since the rear shooting tower is made according to the same principle as the front one: a thin mesh, there were problems with its formation. As a result, it did not turn out as beautifully as we would like. :(
I will not delve into the assembly process. It took about 40 minutes for everything about everything. The result is this model:
In order for you to estimate its size - a photo with a matchbox:
From the identification marks, on the fuselage of this model there were 2 inscriptions: "HWOR" on one side and "BQOB" on the other. Unfortunately, I didn't find anything interesting about them.
And this is how the Lancaster bomber looked in reality:
In general, I liked the model - the workmanship, as in previous cases, is excellent. Nothing to complain about. The fleet of assembled models is gradually increasing) The next in line is the M4 Sherman tank :)
On this, perhaps, everything. Thank you for your attention and your time.
I plan to buy +3 Add to favorites Liked the review +15 +23In Soviet times, children's metal constructors were very popular - sets of strips and plates of different sizes, with holes and fastening screws. Although the expression "iron toys" at one time was pronounced with derision, but as life has shown, plastic toys are much worse. Especially if it's cheap toxic material from China. It is not surprising that many parents prefer eco-friendly wooden or iron ones. Therefore, silumin models of cars are 2-3 times more expensive than plastic ones. But back to the designer from this review. In the photo below, half of the elements are no longer there (let's go), but the essence is clear.
He was bought by friends through an online store, for only 600 rubles, as a gift to his son. The set is called "Super wagon", and believe me - it fully justifies its prefix "super-"! In addition, such a thing is, as it were, a preparatory stage for mastering electronics for kids, showing how complex structures are obtained from individual simple parts.
In a convenient plastic box, there are a lot of all sorts of details, and not just cadmium ones, and painted in various colors with durable powder paint. The developers even provided for such useful little things as a crane hook, nylon rope, rollers and several types of wheels.
Complete set of the designer
- 1. Plank - 36 pcs.
- 2. Corner - 10 pcs.
- 3. Plate - 25 pcs.
- 4. Hood - 1 pc.
- 5. Stove - 3 pcs.
- 6. Fork - 5 pcs.
- 7. Bracket - 11 pcs.
- 8. Disc - 2 pcs.
- 9. Roller - 7 pcs.
- 10. Large wheel - 4 pcs.
- 11. Small wheel - 2 pcs.
- 12. Wheel - 4 pcs.
- 13. Tire - 4 pcs.
- 14. Hairpin - 5 pcs.
- 15. Axle - 4 pcs.
- 16. Cord - 2m.
- 17. Pen - 2 pcs.
- 18. Screw - 74 pcs.
- 19. Nut - 96 pcs.
- 20. Key - 3 pcs.
- 21. Screwdriver - 1 pc.
- 21. Instruction
The instructions have a dozen samples of what can be assembled from such a set, but it is clear that by connecting a minimal fantasy, the number of possible designs is unlimited. Here is just a small part of what I managed to photograph in the process:
Photo of crafts from an iron constructor
Machine
Helicopter
Airplane
self-propelled gun
Tank
Lantern with lamps
Motorcycle
Tractor
Sofa
Crane
In general, at such a ridiculous price, we get not one kind of car or tank, but a whole bunch of all sorts of toys. Tired of one - dismantled and folded a new one, and so at least every day. And most importantly - they do not break, unlike delicate plastic ones. Unless you can bend, but this is fixable :)
Discuss the article CHILDREN'S IRON CONSTRUCTION
This is how I remember my childhood. Easy, including because of the abundance of interesting equipment and iron around. My parents, especially my dad, surrounded me from a young age with very interesting things - either an engine from a Cossack on the kitchen table, or a color tube TV dismantled for repair, or a Mriya portable radiogram that could play gramophone records in the air. But most importantly, my parents sometimes bought me various interesting designers. And the set "Electrical engineering in 200 experiments" was the most memorable for me.
Photo from the Virtual Museum and Directory - Domestic Radio Engineering of the 20th century
Now, unfortunately, they do not do such things, including abroad. I constantly look at the shelves of stores with toys both in our country and when I travel around Europe. There is nothing like it. And this constructor was good because it combined a lot of different parts and components, from which it was possible to assemble both toys and conduct entertaining physical and electrical experiments. For example, it was possible to assemble a telegraph.
Photo from Made in Leningrad community
Or an electric motor-fan, or a home-made galvanic battery, in general, the designer corresponded to the name - you could collect two hundred unique crafts, not counting your own ones.
And now, when my son is growing up, I also want to surround him with interesting technical things. And one of them is such a constructor. I don’t want to buy incomplete used ones 30 years ago, because incomplete sets are a tragedy :) Yes, and it’s almost impossible to find it at flea markets. But it is quite possible to assemble something similar from the available parts, and without much effort.
First, the base, the usual inexpensive metal construction kits that you can still buy in toy stores.
And secondly, what will enliven this constructor, will add movement. These are motors, wires and batteries. Where to take them? Ha, I'm sure if you have children, you know what Chinese toys are. They are certainly bought as a gift to children by both parents and grandmothers, acquaintances, guests of parents. All these flying dogs, jumping cars, barking planes - all this breaks down in an hour (day, week) and flies into the trash. But in my case they fly into the trash only after extracting the main treasure from them :)
DC motors. Taking into account the fact that I have four children growing up, this wealth has accumulated a lot. How can these motors help? But what. Somehow a couple of years ago, my son and I were tinkering with my tools and I suddenly suggested to him, let's assemble a car from a stick. Who wouldn't agree to this? We took a piece of some kind of bar, a motor, nails, a AAA battery and bungled it in 30 minutes.
From nails and sticks, literally, an unsightly self-propelled toy turned out. The child did not let go of her hands all evening, and then showed to all the guests - "Look, what a limousine we made with dad!" That's when I decided it's time to do things like this on a more serious level. First we put together a windmill, a memorable object from our last trip to Europe.
It turned out so cool that there was only one thing left to do: stock up on parts for such crafts in sufficient, industrial quantities :) In the market, I bought all sorts of switches, battery holders, rubber bands. Grandmothers and friends were told that now our best gift is a metal constructor. And after a while, my son and I became the owners of the coolest set possible. You could start creating.
Our next craft is an airplane. Twin engine fighter.
Where there is a plane, there is a helicopter. The son built two additional floors on the rotor, so it seemed to him better.
The child played with this helicopter toy for the longest time, because the main rotor was easily used as a grinder's circular saw - a lot of things in the house were cut by a helicopter - to the delight of mom :)
Now she walks reluctantly, it is necessary to adjust the mechanism.
But immediately after the manufacture of the stepping machine, as her son called her, everyone was very amused with a cheerful tread :)
And the latest of our crafts. To make it, I bought a radio control kit on Aliexpress, a remote control with a receiver, a motor with a gearbox and wheels, a steering servo drive and a motor control scarf. All these things are available on Ali in a shaft of various sizes, capacities, and capabilities. We made a radio-controlled tricycle with full control - gas, brake, steering.
There are so many fools in this frenzied tricycle that it is difficult to start without slipping. But it is easy to make a police U-turn.
Below is a video of an unequal battle between a mad car and a caterpillar. My son and I collected a caterpillar for an exhibition in a kindergarten, where we needed a handicraft made from natural material, well, we built a real slow caterpillar from coconuts, chestnuts and constructor elements. Due to the slowness of the caterpillar, the video is slightly delayed.
Such wonderful things can be made from an ordinary metal constructor, fragments of old toys and a certain number of purchased parts. The only necessary skill for parents is to be able to solder a little, without this it will be difficult with all these wires, switches and batteries. And, of course, fantasy, but usually children have even more of it than adults, so involve the child, he will tell you what to do.
There is, of course, another way. For example, ready-made Lego sets. Lego has a windmill.
There are all sorts of racing cars and trucks.
In general, Lego has everything, including robots and kits for setting up and programming them.
But personally, I don’t have a soul for Lego. And my son has problems with Lego, once he dropped the toy, and it was shattered into small cubes, it’s very insulting to collect everything again. And Lego costs a lot, especially interactive robotic kits with motors or limited editions of all sorts of starships from Star Wars. Our metal will be more budgetary, even taking into account the purchase of remotes on Ali.
There is also the original metal constructor, Meccano. But again, it is very expensive and it is not easy to get it in our area. Therefore, here is the final photo of our wealth.
Hello friends. For a very long time I did not do reviews of handicrafts of creative personalities. Everyone could not find time for this, conducting his master classes, traveling around IT exhibitions () and starting his mini-journey and the changes that he wrote about in the blog.
I will send descriptions to the pictures and the works themselves, and the author will announce himself in the comments, if he wants.
The first sets began to be made already in 1901 in England.
Initially, the idea was to create working layouts to demonstrate projects, such as bridges.
But the material from which the layouts were assembled must be universal. This is how the idea of using perforated strips was born. Therefore, their models are unique in terms of the complexity of mechanical solutions and design beauty.
Motor:
Elevator control unit (stacker):
It's like a Tiger tank.
AN-2. It seems like it.
Mini model. The idea is taken from foreigners, but all the details are ours.
Cubism. Angular sides of large and small cubes. The big one is assembled from the standard corners of the designer, and in a small cube I put my parts to connect the sides. The gap is minimal.
I took a retro car from Meccano (red) assembled from our parts except for wheels, headlights and a cover on the hood.
I made templates for the manufacture of cover sheets from different companies. So far, only from the Yunost 4 set converted to a millimeter standard. And sheets from the GDR Construction 100 set. There are some duplicate drawings, this is to fill in the sheet. Some parts are reminiscent of the Mercur set.
Drawn in Word. It seems that it turned out not bad, but it is better to make templates on graph paper. It will be more accurate.
I will take the material from the covers of accounting folders. There are folders with normal thickness. I would like more, but what we have, then we will use it ..
I punch holes with a set of punches for punching holes in rubber. It is not expensive, it costs about 300 rubles.
This is how the retro truck turned out from memory. There are homemade parts, these are hinges on the doors, wheels and many other reworked parts from our kits. A trial version of making impromptu headlights from ketchup caps. In principle, LEDs can be installed in these caps and power the headlights. It is possible to add this model with hinges on the body and a lifting mechanism for the body. Although the lifting mechanism is for a different type of truck. Or make a roof on the body or put an awning. I think from Lego, add colored parking lights. You can paint the wheels with black paint, it’s like highlighting the outer shoe, as if the model has rubber wheels.
What do people think, can manufacturers be recommended to create such a set?
How do I make loops.
Yes, the occupation is long, dreary and thankless. A little distracted and that's it ... a loop to release.
And so, we take a panel 5x5 or 5x10, better 5x10 where the metal is thinner and easier to bend. We unfold the turns on the panel on the anvil and outline the future blanks for the loops. Everything is visible in the photo.
Well, then it’s a matter of technology ... mode, bend, saw, nails mode, and drive the loops to each other.
Trying to make gear sets.
It turned out such an impromptu ... not a known model of the aircraft ... Objections and comments are accepted. 🙂
I decided to continue the collection of old tanks from the war. This time it is an English tank Cromvell Mk 4 (A27M). This is the first version of the model so far. I will clarify some small details, maybe I will add some small details on the tower. I won't install tracks yet. Perhaps I will put them on after disassembling the KV-1. You need to loosen up the wheels a bit more. The tank gun was made from a telescopic antenna.
Where two tanks are together, you can clearly see how the iron coating oxidizes in air. Becomes pale, dull, then begins to darken. Iron on the second tank lay all this time in the package. Designers were bought almost simultaneously. Conclusion: our coatings have poor carcass, although not all manufacturers of designers. Still shame!
Trying to make big wheels 3 and 4 option
Part of my instrument.
Here is the continuation of the retro series. This is a Parisian taxi from the beginning of the last century. This is not a complete analogue of any model. In those days there were a lot of models of this type, and the series of cars were very insignificant.
Mekano has worthy models for re-building, our material and technical base is very small and depends on the amateur's wallet. Not everyone wants to spend several thousand rubles on 3-4 dozen parts.
In short, the model is not yet the final version. I need to do the front bumper and the rear too. Might be worth putting a spare in the back. On the roof, make railings for suitcases.
In short, take another model for assembly from domestic parts for criticism. I tried to paint the wheels from a conventional aerosol can with alkyd enamel for interior and exterior work, it turned out not bad, in my opinion.