Upscaling Can Change The Game

Mark Rudall reflects on how something not much larger than a model can get you and the whole family on the water.

- Mark Rudall

My earliest brush with model engineering was in 1967 when my clergyman father spotted a Victorian model of a steam portable engine lurking neglected in an old man’s workshop. It was black and filthy, seized solid and covered in sawdust, lying beneath a workbench next to its owner’s venerable treadle-driven Drummond round bed lathe. It had been built, we think, in the 1880s.