Originally Posted by
Frank S
I find that Craftsmen who posses the ability and most of all the patience and perseverance to construct these marvels of workmanship to be among the finest artisans of the trades. Many years ago while I was building oilfield drill rigs a man contracted me to build a 6 ft tall derrick for a working model he was building for MR T Boon Pickens. I felt extremely honored to get to cut out and weld up the derrick but for my part the smallest materials I had to use were just small standard angle iron it was a lot of cutting and welding with a tig torch but still large enough that most anyone who could manufacture ornamental iron house hold burglar bars could have done the job. His work building the machinery portion of the rig. was so intricate that I likened it to the skills of a watchmaker.
My hat is off to anyone who has the skills to make such tiny and intricately complex models.