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Post by spined on Feb 14, 2019 21:59:34 GMT
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Post by spined on Sept 21, 2017 9:46:25 GMT
Are there elves and dragons?
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Post by spined on Jun 20, 2017 19:20:33 GMT
As in - cancelled this year.
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Post by spined on Jun 20, 2017 8:32:13 GMT
Thought it was cancelled.
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Post by spined on Jan 8, 2017 14:33:53 GMT
Guys, Years back when I did subscribe to ME someone wrote in and complained about the magazine advertising plans/drawings for a scaled Gatling Gun. The complainant thought this to be counter to the aims and objectives of a magazine that from my point of view was dedicated purely to the recurring theme of knackered old models of long gone locomotives. The possibility that some old guy would buy the drawings, build it, somehow source a load ammunition and then go hold up a Post Office made me smile. Happily, I've seen a number of beautifully made model Gatling Guns at MEXs, perhaps two fingers to the PC brigade and the then ME editor. I for one would have been very interested in a set of drawings for a Gatling Gun and I wrote in an said so. I didn't really want to build one, just see how all the tricky bits got solved. A couple of other brave souls also wrote in supporting me. Unfortunately the old lady in editorial charge capitulated to political correctness supported by another old lady from Somerset and the cause was lost. The correspondent also put the kiss of death on ever seeing articles on building atomic bombs appearing in ME. Poor chap. That one is well out of the bag but like sourcing ammunition for a scale Gatling Gun, plutonium doesn't grow on trees and is becoming tougher to get than rocking horse poo. Interestingly, I see all sorts of non-locomotive items in really old ME magazines. Would be interested to know when 'Model' became locked to steam locomotives, similarly for 'Engineer'. Somewhere between then and now the term "Engineer" ceased to described someone who had to wash his hands BEFORE using the loo because he had to. Now, "Engineer" is restricted to folk that wash their hands AFTER using the loo because someone told them to. ME has sort of been hijacked by nostalgia for old steam locomotives. Perhaps there is space for someone's reminisces of times long gone when this country had a truly independent missile capability along with all the other long lost engineering successes of times past. Do not forget, it was someone's skill at making actuate navel gun barrels that made steam engine cylinders possible. Should be we also remove the Spitfire from our history because it was made to kill Germans? I think not. However, lets have more engineering. Just for accuracy here. ME carried small ads for drawings from the US for a Gatlin gun. The Home Office asked for that to be stopped. It was stopped. As you would expect.
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Post by spined on Jul 11, 2016 18:02:04 GMT
Only the magazine has been sold.
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Post by spined on Jul 11, 2016 10:49:36 GMT
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Post by spined on Jul 10, 2016 10:13:08 GMT
Apart from the Lynx I think you'd probably have to go back more than 20 years to find more new additions to the ME plans service. In fact most of them are by 'staff' before then. These days there are no staff designs which is a pity but inevitable - it must have been great working for a fully staffed ME with its own workshop and drawing office. Designs that appear in the mag these days usually remain the copyright of the originator, and these are often available from other sources. Polly Engineering, especially, have many of the Anthony Mount designs, plus Neville Evans, the great Pete Rich and more. These days few people are going to want to pay up to £100 for a set of drawings when they can quite legitimately (for personal use) make pdfs of magazine pages and send them off for A1 printing at 40p a sheet for use in the workshop (assuming the originals are of good enough quality).
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Post by spined on Jun 22, 2016 14:25:38 GMT
Roger
If you took the photo, made drawings, or wrote an article, it's your copyright, unless you've signed it over to someone else. Even your emails are your copyright.
If you are not sure about signing something then change it, even cross out every clause, before you send it back.
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Post by spined on Jun 22, 2016 12:23:43 GMT
Jason If you or anyone has some drawings that they would like to see in publishable form, let us have a look at them at modelengineeringwebsite.com. If they are complete we might be able to produce CAD drawings for you, for publication on MEWS as well as for your own use wherever you like I don't know why people get so hung up about copyright agreements. If anyone doesn't like what they are being asked to sign, just cross out the offending bits, sign them and send back. Alternatively, deal with people like MEWS. As we say: "Everything on MEWS (just like everywhere else) is somebody’s copyright. You cannot reproduce material elsewhere without permission. Mostly we will arrange permission. Just be sure to ask. Similarly be sure you have permission to use material in articles you send to us to publish. Anything you write for MEWS remains your copyright. Simple. No need for a lawyer to work out what you are giving up! The answer’s ‘nothing’."
Jo The tracers are long gone. ME and (probably) MEW did have a staff illustrator, nice guy called Grahame Chambers who lived on a Greek isle. I think ME stopped using him after I left about seven years ago, tho his name is still on the flannel panel.
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Post by spined on Oct 14, 2014 11:40:32 GMT
Model engineering is usually a man thing. Arguably, the greatest model engineer is a woman. Cherry Hill has made going on for 20 models over a 60 year period, after her father gave her an old lathe from the workshop of his agricultural machinery business. The word ‘models’ hardly does justice to what she produces. For the past several decades she has created scaled down versions of traction engines. Not just run of the mill types, but Victorian flights of fancy. Extensive research and design is the secret of her success. In one or two cases she discovered that the original designs could not have worked. Part of the creative endeavour is to produce models that will work. They all do. What comes out of her workshops in Worcestershire and Florida is perfection. Every last part, even tiny chain links are made there, all from metal stock. No parts are bought in. Once completed all the models have been given away, early ones to friends and family and later ones to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Typically a model will occupy 7000 hours work. David Carpenter was originally an engineer who moved into journalism, working for National daily and weekly newspapers. David retired after some time as a communication consultant to blue chip companies and in the public sector but came out of retirement to edit Model Engineer magazine and, later, to set up the weekly web magazine, Model Engineering Website. He is also a model engineer “sadly not in the Cherry Hill league!” Cherry’s Model Engines by David Carpenter Published by Robert Hale Ltd £30 from booksellers halebooks.wordpress.com/category/non-fiction/
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