This month in Geoff’s workshop we’ve been asking him about his biggest passion: model engineering.
Geoff is a proud member of the Cambridge Model Engineering Society. He’s been building model locomotives for over 40 years. These vary in size from the smaller 20cm models up to 2m long! He primarily uses laser cut blanks and then forms them with lathes, a milling machine and a pillar drill. He solders them together, then they’re grit blasted, and painstakingly painted to create his masterpieces all in his own workshop. He has spent over 10,000 hours on a single model before, but his latest project is racking up to be almost three times this long!
Growing up on the rail way line, his dad was the signal man at Potton railway station before it closed down in 1968, here the love of the LMS railway began and all things steam powered.
We think the video below sums it up, so see this 3 1/2 inch gauge live steam model of an LMS 8F in action below!
You can read about the Society on their website here.
This is Geoff’s passion, and he’s committed more hours to this than we can comprehend! What’s your passion project? And if you had all the time in the world, what would you be creating?