It's always cool when the big motorcycle manufacturers shake hands with toy makers and deliver spectacular items that please the eyes and the minds of both kids and adults. The latest to do so is ...

A model maker has used Meccano to create his own version of new trains that will run on the Tyne and Wear Metro. John Herdman spent three months making the remote-controlled miniature, which includes ...

While his daughters, Barkha and Bahar Dutt, break new ground with their journalistic exploits, SP Dutt has gone about quietly building an enviable empire of Meccano sets (From left) A robot, mostly of ...

A unique Tyne and Wear Metro train has been recreated in Meccano thanks to one man’s labour of love. It was built by expert model maker John Herdman from Whickham in Gateshead. John, 70, spent three ...

Originally devised for children, it became enormously popular with young and old. However, Meccano is anything but a set of toys. THEY are the men for whom a supermodel isn't Naomi Campbell but a ...

The Krupp 288 bucket wheel excavator was constructed in five years At the time of Shepherd’s build of the Krupp 288, the cost of the project, using factory-made parts, would have been over ...

There have been some large Meccano models built – the construction toy invented by Frank Hornby over 100 years ago, but retired applied mathematics lecturer Graham Shepherd believes he has built the ...

WHEN Philip Sampson told his younger brother Keith he was going to give him a “super model”, this may not have been quite what he expected. In fact, the younger brother was blown away by what he got.

A model maker has used Meccano to create his own version of new trains that will run on the Tyne and Wear Metro. John Herdman spent three months making the remote-controlled miniature, which includes ...