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alexandra palace model show who is coming i know i am
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I've been for the past few years but model engineering is not in the best of health; there are so few builds going on these days that the show has the same stuff year in year out.
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I would love to go but it is the wrong side of payday. 
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| logoman wrote: | | I've been for the past few years but model engineering is not in the best of health; there are so few builds going on these days that the show has the same stuff year in year out. |
Thats really sad to hear Miles- why should that be? is it lack of engineers coming through, money time or all 
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| Atticman wrote: | | logoman wrote: | | I've been for the past few years but model engineering is not in the best of health; there are so few builds going on these days that the show has the same stuff year in year out. |
Thats really sad to hear Miles- why should that be? is it lack of engineers coming through, money time or all |
My view is that all of a sudden, lots of things have come onto the market ready made so there is in a lot of cases no point to make them.
I always find the old Model Engineer magazines more interesting as it shows how an engineer made a peice of a model using inginuitey and trial rather than phoning up Reeves or MJ etc
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| steamyjim wrote: | | Atticman wrote: | | logoman wrote: | | I've been for the past few years but model engineering is not in the best of health; there are so few builds going on these days that the show has the same stuff year in year out. |
Thats really sad to hear Miles- why should that be? is it lack of engineers coming through, money time or all |
My view is that all of a sudden, lots of things have come onto the market ready made so there is in a lot of cases no point to make them.
I always find the old Model Engineer magazines more interesting as it shows how an engineer made a peice of a model using inginuitey and trial rather than phoning up Reeves or MJ etc |
Didnt no old micheal was into Model engineering... RIP the king of pop
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| steamyjim wrote: | | Atticman wrote: | | logoman wrote: | | I've been for the past few years but model engineering is not in the best of health; there are so few builds going on these days that the show has the same stuff year in year out. |
Thats really sad to hear Miles- why should that be? is it lack of engineers coming through, money time or all |
My view is that all of a sudden, lots of things have come onto the market ready made so there is in a lot of cases no point to make them.
I always find the old Model Engineer magazines more interesting as it shows how an engineer made a peice of a model using inginuitey and trial rather than phoning up Reeves or MJ etc |
You may well be right Jim, I guess that CNC has made the manufacture dirt cheap, with maybe a bit of Chinese cheapness, so why make things.
Sad, and TBH Im not at all sure this is a good thing long tem.
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| Atticman wrote: | | steamyjim wrote: | | Atticman wrote: | | logoman wrote: | | I've been for the past few years but model engineering is not in the best of health; there are so few builds going on these days that the show has the same stuff year in year out. |
Thats really sad to hear Miles- why should that be? is it lack of engineers coming through, money time or all |
My view is that all of a sudden, lots of things have come onto the market ready made so there is in a lot of cases no point to make them.
I always find the old Model Engineer magazines more interesting as it shows how an engineer made a peice of a model using inginuitey and trial rather than phoning up Reeves or MJ etc |
You may well be right Jim, I guess that CNC has made the manufacture dirt cheap, with maybe a bit of Chinese cheapness, so why make things.
Sad, and TBH Im not at all sure this is a good thing long tem. |
Exactly! There are still some very dedicated model engineers who refuse to use anything out of scale; Cherry Hill and her excellent 19th century road vehicles, Ron Jarvis and his early industrial revolution machines and David Hulses beautiful models of pioneering steam engines spring to mind. I'm not saying thats the only way to do model engineering, but in the model tents at steam rallys you are starting to see a table with a single Mamod in a glass case with not one person there with it. I don't personally see that as an interesting display...this is the model tent at the GDSF aswell...the greatest show on earth!
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At this rate STIA will be bigger than the ME exhibitions 
I went to it at Earls Court- is the Ally Palace smaller cheaper to rent or what I wonder.
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| Atticman wrote: | At this rate STIA will be bigger than the ME exhibitions
I went to it at Earls Court- is the Ally Palace smaller cheaper to rent or what I wonder. |
Maybe not bigger, but probably more variation!
The Bristol Model Engineering exhibition is a very good one for the variation in exhibits on display 
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I think it's a generation thing. There are new builds, and some incredible ones, but not in the quantity there use to be.
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Sorry Tobias. Most threads vere off topic at times, back to the thread
IS anyone going?
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