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 ...

Aston Martin has confirmed a new licence agreement with Meccano, which will result in the release of the Meccano Pro x Aston Martin Formula 1 car. The set will allow fans to construct a highly ...

A Meccano model of Teesside's Newport Bridge, which took an enthusiast a year of painstaking work to construct, is about to be dismantled. The Newport Bridge Model, comprising thousands of parts and ...

As far as model construction sets go, LEGO is by far the most popular brand for building not only pre-planned models but whatever the builder can imagine. There are a few others out there though, some ...

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 ...

A NORTH-EAST Meccano enthusiast has completed building a gigantic working model of a bucket wheel excavator – piecing together thousands of components over the past year. Joe Etheridge, 69, who has ...

"When I was 13, and a student at Delhi-s Modern School, I spotted a huge pre-war No. 10 Meccano set, the biggest of its time in our Physics department; I requested the HOD if I could assemble it. I ...

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 ...

A Meccano enthusiast has been showing off his model of a Teesside landmark - just before he dismantles it. It took Joe Etheridge, who is president of the North East Meccano Society, almost a year to ...

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 ...