Miniature Engineering

In the process of looking for information about making my flea circus chariot I've tracked down a few other people who like to make small things. Charlotte and Martin Willmott made the papers recently with their models of tiny kitchen tables laden with food.



Laurence and Angela St Leger makes miniature automata approximately 1 inch tall powered by the pull of an almost invisible wire or a tiny crank.



Award winning model engineer Cherry Hill makes some very small components for her 1:16 scale working traction engines. Often this requires making tools that in themselves are smaller than a 20p coin. Details of her workshop can be seen in the Model Engineers Workshop Special Autumn 2008.

Other Suppliers of Miniature items

• Miniature

Tools for miniature modelling

• Micro-tools
• Tick in time
• Watch tools

Clock Makers

• The British Horological Institute
• W R Smith Clocks

A range of computer microscopes

• Digital Blue QX5 Computer Microscope
• Digital Blue Smithsonian