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Welcome to mikes-models.com. I am, like many others, a self taught model engineer. When I say that, I mean I have
not received any formal training. However, I have benefited from many, many magazine articles, and more recently,
training DVD's.

My aim for this site is to 'share' with others, my experiences and lessons hard learned. I also want to promote the
model engineering hobby to as many new people as possible.

I have several projects underway. I tend to work through problems by changing tasks then come back to them only to
find a solution presents itself in the meantime.� The brain is a wonderful piece of engineering! It continues to work on
many different levels at the same time. Most of which we are unaware of until the answer 'pops' into our consciousness.

Stop press: 21st November 2008

I have been foolish and bought a Cad/cam software package! My reasoning being that
it would be useful for the article I am writing on the chess set, and it would be nice to
have quality drawings. Secondly I want next year to design and build my own engine
and this could help with drawings and intereferance problems, and finally some time
in the future (2 or 3 years) I would like to have a Cad/Cam Milling facility.

So I have bought BobCad, and talk about frustating starts! Read more on my new
section, which you can get to via the menu above. It won't be all good news and it
wasn't an easy birth!