Airplane made of metal constructor. Easy childhood, iron toys. Photos of crafts made from an iron constructor

In Soviet times, children's metal construction sets - sets of strips and plates - were very popular. different sizes, with holes and mounting screws. Although the expression " iron toys"at one time was pronounced with mockery, but as life has shown, plastic toys much worse. Especially if it is cheap toxic material from China. It is not surprising that many parents prefer environmentally friendly wooden or iron ones. Therefore, silumin car models cost 2-3 times more than plastic ones. But let's return to the designer from this review. In the photo below, half of the elements are already missing (let's go to work), but the essence is clear.

It was bought by friends through an online store, for only 600 rubles, as a gift for his son. The set is called “Super Universal”, and believe me, it fully justifies its “super” prefix! Moreover, such a thing is, as it were, preparatory stage mastering electronics for kids, showing how complex structures are made from individual simple parts.

In a convenient plastic box there are a lot of all sorts of parts, not just ordinary cadmium-plated ones, and painted in various colors with durable powder paint. The developers even provided such useful little things, like a crane hook, nylon rope, rollers and several types of wheels.

Constructor kit

• 1. Plank - 36 pcs.
• 2. Corner - 10 pcs.
• 3. Plate - 25 pcs.
• 4. Hood - 1 pc.
• 5. Plate - 3 pcs.
• 6. Fork - 5 pcs.
• 7. Bracket - 11 pcs.
• 8. Disc - 2 pcs.
• 9. Roller - 7 pcs.
• 10. Large wheel - 4 pcs.
• 11. Small wheel - 2 pcs.
• 12. Wheel - 4 pcs.
• 13. Tire - 4 pcs.
• 14. Hairpin - 5 pcs.
• 15. Axle - 4 pcs.
• 16. Cord - 2m.
• 17. Handle - 2 pcs.
• 18. Screw - 74 pcs.
• 19. Nut - 96 pcs.
• 20. Key - 3 pcs.
• 21. Screwdriver - 1 pc.
• 21. Instructions

The instructions contain a dozen samples of what can be assembled from such a set, but it is clear that with a little imagination, the amount possible design unlimited. Here is just a small part of what I managed to photograph during the process:

Photos of crafts made from an iron constructor

Machine

Helicopter

Airplane

Self-propelled gun

Tank

Lantern with lamps

Motorbike

Tractor

Sofa

Crane

In general, at such a ridiculous price, we get not just one car or tank, but a whole bunch of all kinds of toys. I got tired of one - they took it apart and put a new one, and so on at least every day. And the main thing is that they cannot be broken, unlike delicate plastic ones. You can only bend it, but this can be fixed :)

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Hello friends. It’s been a long time since I reviewed the crafts of creative individuals. I still couldn’t find time for this, conducting my master classes, traveling to IT exhibitions () and starting my mini-journey and changes, which I wrote about on my blog.

I will send descriptions of the pictures and the works themselves, and the author will announce himself in the comments if he wants.

The first sets began to be made in 1901 in England.

Initially, the idea was to create working models to demonstrate projects, such as bridges.
But the material from which the models were assembled must be universal. This is how the idea of ​​using perforated strips was born. Therefore, their models are unique in terms of the complexity of their mechanical solutions and design beauty.
Motor:

Lift (stacker) control unit:

It's like a Tiger tank.

AN-2. It seems similar.

Mini model. The idea was taken from foreigners, but all the details are ours.

Cubism. Corner sides of large and small cubes. The large one was assembled from the standard corners of the designer, and in the small cube he placed his own parts to connect the sides. The gap turned out to be minimal.

I took a retro car from Meccano (red) and assembled it from our parts except for the wheels, headlights and hood cover.

I made templates for making cover sheets from different companies. For now, only from the Yunost 4 set converted to the millimeter standard. And sheets from the GDR Construction 100 set. There are some duplicate drawings, this is to fill out the sheet. Some parts resemble those from a Mercur kit.
Drew in Word. It seems that it turned out not bad, but it is better to make templates on graph paper. This will be more accurate.
I will take the material from the covers of accounting folders. There are folders with normal thickness. I would like to have more, but we will use what we have..
I punch holes with a set of punches for pressing holes in the rubber. It is not expensive, costs about 300 rubles

This is how the retro truck turned out from memory. Eat homemade parts, these are door hinges, wheels and many other converted parts from our kits. A trial option to make improvised headlights from ketchup caps. In principle, LEDs can be installed in these caps and power the headlights. It is possible to add this model with hinges on the body and a lifting mechanism for the body. Although lifting mechanism this is for a different type of truck. Or put a roof on the body or put an awning on it. I'm thinking of using Legos and adding colored side lights. You can paint the wheels black, this will highlight the outer shoes, as if the model had rubber wheels.
What do people think can be recommended to manufacturers for creating such a set?

How I make loops.
Yes, the task is long, tedious and thankless. I got a little distracted and that’s it... the ejection loop.
And so, we take a 5x5 or 5x10 panel; 5x10 is better; the thinner metal is easier to bend. We unfold the turns on the panel on the anvil and outline future blanks for the loops. Everything is visible in the photo.
Well, then it’s a matter of technique... mode, bend, saw, nails mode, and drive the loops towards each other.

Trying to make gear sets.

It turned out to be such an impromptu... no famous model aircraft... Objections and comments are accepted. 🙂

I decided to continue the collection of old tanks from the war. This time it is the English tank Cromvell Mk 4 (A27M). This is the first version of the model so far. I will clarify some small parts, maybe I'll add some small details on the tower. I won’t install caterpillars yet. Perhaps I’ll put them on after disassembling the KV-1. We need to space the wheels out a little more. The tank's gun was made from a telescopic antenna.
Where two tanks are together you can clearly see how the iron coating oxidizes in air. It becomes pale, matte, then begins to darken. The iron on the second tank had been in the packaging all this time. Design kits were purchased almost simultaneously. Conclusion: our coatings are poor quality, although not all construction kit manufacturers have them. Still a shame!

Trying to make big wheels Option 3 and 4

Part of my instrument.

Here is the continuation of the retro series. This is a Parisian taxi from the beginning of the last century. This is not a complete analogue of any model. In those days there were a lot of models of this type, and the series of cars were very small.

Mecano has decent models for re-building; our material and technical base is very small and depends on the amateur’s wallet. Not everyone wants to spend several thousand rubles on 3-4 dozen parts.
In short, the model is not yet the final version. We need to make a front bumper and a rear one too. Maybe it's worth hanging a spare tire in the back. Make fences for suitcases on the roof.
In short, accept for criticism another model for assembly from domestic parts. I tried to paint wheels from regular aerosol can with alkyd enamel for internal and external works, it turned out not bad, in my opinion.

This is how I remember my childhood. Light, also due to the abundance interesting technology and iron around. My parents, especially my dad, surrounded me very much from the time I was little. interesting things- then the engine is from a Cossack kitchen table, either a color tube TV disassembled for repair, or a portable Mriya radio, which could play gramophone records while suspended. But most importantly, my parents sometimes bought me various interesting constructors. And the most memorable thing for me was the “Electrical engineering in 200 experiments” set.

Photo from the Virtual Museum and Directory - Domestic Radio Engineering of the 20th Century

Now, unfortunately, they don’t make such things, including abroad. I constantly look at the shelves of stores with toys both in our country and when I travel around Europe. There is nothing like it. What was good about this construction set was that it combined a lot of different parts and components from which one could assemble both toys and conduct entertaining physical and electrical experiments. For example, it was possible to assemble a telegraph.

Photo from the Made in Leningrad community

Or an electric motor-fan, or a homemade galvanic battery, in general, the designer lived up to the name - two hundred could be assembled unique crafts, not counting your own invented ones.

And now, when my son is growing up, I also want to surround him with interesting technical things. And one of them is such a constructor. I don’t want to buy incomplete used ones from 30 years ago, because incompleteness is a tragedy :) And it’s almost impossible to find it at flea markets. But it is quite possible to assemble something similar from available parts, and without much effort.

First, the base, ordinary inexpensive metal construction sets that can still be bought in toy stores.

And secondly, what will bring this constructor to life will add movement. These are motors, wires and batteries. Where can I get them? Ha, I'm sure if you have children, you know what Chinese toys are. They are certainly bought as gifts for children by both parents and grandmothers, acquaintances, and guests of parents. All these flying dogs, jumping cars, barking airplanes - all this breaks down in an hour (day, week) and goes into the trash. But for me they go into the trash only after the main treasure has been extracted from them :)

Engines direct current. Considering that I have four children, I have accumulated a lot of this wealth. How can these motors help? Here's what. One day a couple of years ago, my son and I were tinkering with my tools and I suddenly suggested to him, let’s build a car out of a stick. Who wouldn't agree to this? We took a piece of some kind of block, a motor, nails, an AAA battery and put it together in 30 minutes.

From nails and sticks, literally, it turned out to be an unsightly self-propelled toy. The child did not let go of it all evening, and then showed it to all the guests - “Look what a limousine dad and I made!” That's when I decided it was time to do these things on a more serious level. First we assembled a windmill, a memorable object from our last trip to Europe.

It turned out so cool that there was only one thing left to do, stock up on parts for such crafts in sufficient industrial quantities :) I bought all sorts of switches, battery holders, and rubber bands at the market. Grandmothers and friends were told that now our best gift is a metal construction set. And after a while, my son and I became the owners of the coolest set possible. It was possible to start creating.

Our next craft is an airplane. Twin-engine fighter.

Where there is a plane, there is a helicopter. The son added two additional floors to the main rotor, which seemed better to him.

The child played with this helicopter toy for the longest time, because the main rotor was easily used as Circular Saw grinders - a lot of things in the house were cut down by helicopter - to the delight of my mother :)

Now she walks reluctantly, the mechanism needs to be adjusted.

But immediately after production, the walking machine, as its son nicknamed it, made everyone very happy with its vigorous gait :)

And the very last of our crafts. To make it, I bought on Aliexpress a radio control kit, a remote control with a receiver, a motor with a gearbox and wheels, a steering servo and a motor control board. All these things are available on Ali in a variety of sizes, capacities, and capabilities. We made a radio-controlled tricycle with full control - gas, brakes, steering.

There is so much dope in this crazy tricycle that it’s difficult to get going without slipping. But it’s easy to make a police U-turn.

Below is a video of the unequal battle between a mad car and a caterpillar. My son and I collected the caterpillar for an exhibition in kindergarten, there was a need for a craft from natural material, well, we’ve built a realooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, well, we built a real oooooooooooooo slow caterpillar from coconuts, chestnuts and construction elements. Due to the slowness of the caterpillar, the video is a little long :)

These wonderful things can be made from an ordinary metal construction set, scraps of old toys and a certain amount of purchased parts. The only necessary skill for parents is to be able to solder a little, without this it will be difficult with all these wires, switches and batteries. And, of course, imagination, but usually children have even more of it than adults, so involve your child, he will tell you what to do.

There is, of course, another way. For example, ready-made Lego sets. Lego has a windmill.

There are all sorts of racing cars and trucks.

In general, Lego has everything, including robots and kits for customizing and programming them.

But personally, I don’t have a passion for Lego. And my son has problems with Lego, once he dropped the toy, and it was shattered into small cubes, it’s very disappointing to put everything back together. And Lego costs immeasurably, especially interactive robotic kits with motors or limited editions of all sorts of starships from star wars. Our metal will be more affordable, even taking into account the purchase of remote controls on Ali.

There is also an original metal construction set, Meccano. But again, it is very expensive and it is not easy to get it in our area. Therefore, here is the final photo of our wealth.

Hi all!

With today's review I want to continue the series of posts dedicated to miniature metal construction sets (3D models). This time we will talk about the British heavy four-engine bomber, which was in service with the Royal Air Force, Avro 683 Lancaster. This aircraft was the main heavy bomber of the Royal Air Force, along with the Halifax, during the Second World War. Lancaster accounted for 3/4 of the total bomb load dropped by British aircraft during the Second World War.

Due to the fact that the parcel contained a decent number of orders, I agreed with the seller to send the parcel with a track. All tracking information is available.

So, the designer is supplied in the standard factory packaging for such a product, which is a cardboard envelope. Such an envelope has already been encountered: on front side dandelion:

And on the back, the only interesting thing is a sticker with an image of the model being assembled.

The delivery set is also standard: instructions and a metal sheet with laser-cut design elements.

There are still no complaints about the quality of workmanship: the elements are cut out well, the pattern is also applied smoothly and without flaws.

As written in the instructions, we begin assembly with the fuselage, then move on to the wings and landing gear:

The most difficult thing in assembling this model was to beautifully bend the bombardier's cabin and the forward gun turret, located in the forward fuselage module. There were also problems with the upper rifle turret, since its mounting location did not match the dimensions. Since the rear rifle turret is made according to the same principle as the front one: a thin mesh, there were problems with its formation. In the end, it didn't turn out as beautiful as we would have liked. :(

I will not delve into the assembly process. It took about 40 minutes to do everything. The result is this model:

So that you can estimate its size - a photo with a matchbox:

The identification marks on the fuselage of this model had 2 inscriptions: “HWOR” on one side and “BQOB” on the other. Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything interesting about them.

And this is what the Lancaster bomber looked like in reality:

In general, I liked the model - the workmanship, as in previous cases, is excellent. There is nothing to complain about. A park assembled models gradually increasing) Next in line is the M4 Sherman tank :)

That's probably all. Thank you for your attention and your time.

Hello friends. It’s been a long time since I reviewed the crafts of creative individuals. I still couldn’t find time for this, conducting my master classes, traveling to IT exhibitions () and starting my mini-journey and changes, which I wrote about in my blog.

I will send descriptions of the pictures and the works themselves, and the author will announce himself in the comments if he wants.

The first sets began to be made in 1901 in England.

Initially, the idea was to create working models to demonstrate projects, such as bridges.
But the material from which the models were assembled must be universal. This is how the idea of ​​using perforated strips was born. Therefore, their models are unique in terms of the complexity of their mechanical solutions and design beauty.
Motor:


Lift (stacker) control unit:

It's like a Tiger tank.

AN-2. It seems similar.

Mini model. The idea was taken from foreigners, but all the details are ours.

Cubism. Corner sides of large and small cubes. The large one was assembled from the standard corners of the designer, and in the small cube he placed his own parts to connect the sides. The gap turned out to be minimal.

I took a retro car from Meccano (red) and assembled it from our parts except for the wheels, headlights and hood cover.

I made templates for making cover sheets from different companies. For now, only from the Yunost 4 set converted to the millimeter standard. And sheets from the GDR Construction 100 set. There are some duplicate drawings, this is to fill out the sheet. Some parts resemble those from a Mercur kit.
Drew in Word. It seems that it turned out not bad, but it is better to make templates on graph paper. This will be more accurate.
I will take the material from the covers of accounting folders. There are folders with normal thickness. I would like to have more, but we will use what we have..
I punch holes with a set of punches for pressing holes in the rubber. It is not expensive, costs about 300 rubles

This is how the retro truck turned out from memory. There are homemade parts, these are door hinges, wheels and many other converted parts from our kits. A trial option to make improvised headlights from ketchup caps. In principle, LEDs can be installed in these caps and power the headlights. It is possible to add this model with hinges on the body and a lifting mechanism for the body. Although the lifting mechanism is for a different type of truck. Or put a roof on the body or put an awning on it. I'm thinking of using Legos and adding colored side lights. You can paint the wheels black, this will highlight the outer shoes, as if the model had rubber wheels.
What do people think can be recommended to manufacturers for creating such a set?

How I make loops.
Yes, the task is long, tedious and thankless. I got a little distracted and that’s it... the ejection loop.
And so, we take a 5x5 or 5x10 panel; 5x10 is better; the thinner metal is easier to bend. We unfold the turns on the panel on the anvil and outline future blanks for the loops. Everything is visible in the photo.
Well, then it’s a matter of technique... mode, bend, saw, nails mode, and drive the loops towards each other.

Trying to make gear sets.

It turned out to be such an impromptu... unknown aircraft model... Objections and comments are accepted. 🙂

I decided to continue the collection of old tanks from the war. This time it is the English tank Cromvell Mk 4 (A27M). This is the first version of the model so far. I will refine some small details, maybe add some small details on the tower. I won’t install caterpillars yet. Perhaps I’ll put them on after disassembling the KV-1. We need to space the wheels out a little more. The tank's gun was made from a telescopic antenna.
Where two tanks are together you can clearly see how the iron coating oxidizes in air. It becomes pale, matte, then begins to darken. The iron on the second tank had been in the packaging all this time. Design kits were purchased almost simultaneously. Conclusion: our coatings are poor quality, although not all construction kit manufacturers have them. Still a shame!

Trying to make big wheels Option 3 and 4

Part of my instrument.

Here is the continuation of the retro series. This is a Parisian taxi from the beginning of the last century. This is not a complete analogue of any model. In those days there were a lot of models of this type, and the series of cars were very small.

Mecano has decent models for re-building; our material and technical base is very small and depends on the amateur’s wallet. Not everyone wants to spend several thousand rubles on 3-4 dozen parts.
In short, the model is not yet the final version. We need to make a front bumper and a rear one too. Maybe it's worth hanging a spare tire in the back. Make fences for suitcases on the roof.
In short, accept for criticism another model for assembly from domestic parts. I tried to paint the wheels from a regular aerosol can with alkyd enamel for interior and exterior work, it turned out not bad, in my opinion.

This is how I remember my childhood. It’s easy, also because of the abundance of interesting technology and hardware around. My parents, especially my dad, from an early age surrounded me with very interesting things - either a Cossack engine on the kitchen table, a color tube TV disassembled for repair, or a portable Mriya radio, which could play gramophone records in the air. But most importantly, my parents sometimes bought me various interesting construction sets. And the most memorable thing for me was the “Electrical engineering in 200 experiments” set.

Photo from the Virtual Museum and Directory - Domestic Radio Engineering of the 20th Century

Now, unfortunately, they don’t make such things, including abroad. I constantly look at the shelves of stores with toys both in our country and when I travel around Europe. There is nothing like it. What was good about this construction set was that it combined a lot of different parts and components from which one could assemble both toys and conduct entertaining physical and electrical experiments. For example, it was possible to assemble a telegraph.

Photo from the Made in Leningrad community

Or an electric motor-fan, or a homemade galvanic battery, in general, the designer lived up to the name - you could assemble two hundred unique crafts, not counting your own invented ones.

And now, when my son is growing up, I also want to surround him with interesting technical things. And one of them is such a constructor. I don’t want to buy incomplete used ones from 30 years ago, because incompleteness is a tragedy :) And it’s almost impossible to find it at flea markets. But it is quite possible to assemble something similar from available parts, and without much effort.

First, the base, ordinary inexpensive metal construction sets that can still be bought in toy stores.

And secondly, what will bring this constructor to life will add movement. These are motors, wires and batteries. Where can I get them? Ha, I'm sure if you have children, you know what Chinese toys are. They are certainly bought as gifts for children by both parents and grandmothers, acquaintances, and guests of parents. All these flying dogs, jumping cars, barking airplanes - all this breaks down in an hour (day, week) and goes into the trash. But for me they go into the trash only after the main treasure has been extracted from them :)

DC motors. Considering that I have four children, I have accumulated a lot of this wealth. How can these motors help? Here's what. One day a couple of years ago, my son and I were tinkering with my tools and I suddenly suggested to him, let’s build a car out of a stick. Who wouldn't agree to this? We took a piece of some kind of block, a motor, nails, an AAA battery and put it together in 30 minutes.

From nails and sticks, literally, it turned out to be an unsightly self-propelled toy. The child did not let go of it all evening, and then showed it to all the guests - “Look what a limousine dad and I made!” That's when I decided it was time to do these things on a more serious level. First we assembled a windmill, a memorable object from our last trip to Europe.

It turned out so cool that there was only one thing left to do, stock up on parts for such crafts in sufficient industrial quantities :) I bought all sorts of switches, battery holders, and rubber bands at the market. Grandmothers and friends were told that now our best gift is a metal construction set. And after a while, my son and I became the owners of the coolest set possible. It was possible to start creating.

Our next craft is an airplane. Twin-engine fighter.

Where there is a plane, there is a helicopter. The son added two additional floors to the main rotor, which seemed better to him.

The child played with this helicopter toy for the longest time, because the main rotor was easily used as a circular saw of an angle grinder - the helicopter sawed a lot of things in the house - to the delight of his mother :)

Now she walks reluctantly, the mechanism needs to be adjusted.

But immediately after production, the walking machine, as its son nicknamed it, made everyone very happy with its vigorous gait :)

And the very last of our crafts. To make it, I bought on Aliexpress a radio control kit, a remote control with a receiver, a motor with a gearbox and wheels, a steering servo and a motor control board. All these things are available on Ali in a variety of sizes, capacities, and capabilities. We made a radio-controlled tricycle with full control - gas, brakes, steering.

There is so much dope in this crazy tricycle that it’s difficult to get going without slipping. But it’s easy to make a police U-turn.

Below is a video of the unequal battle between a mad car and a caterpillar. My son and I assembled a caterpillar for an exhibition in a kindergarten, they needed a craft made from natural material, so we built a realoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss" \u003d\u003e\u003e Due to the slowness of the caterpillar, the video is a little long :)

These wonderful things can be made from an ordinary metal construction set, scraps of old toys and a certain amount of purchased parts. The only necessary skill for parents is to be able to solder a little, without this it will be difficult with all these wires, switches and batteries. And, of course, imagination, but usually children have even more of it than adults, so involve your child, he will tell you what to do.

There is, of course, another way. For example, ready-made Lego sets. Lego has a windmill.

There are all sorts of racing cars and trucks.

In general, Lego has everything, including robots and kits for customizing and programming them.

But personally, I don’t have a passion for Lego. And my son has problems with Lego, once he dropped the toy, and it was shattered into small cubes, it’s very disappointing to put everything back together. And Lego costs a lot, especially interactive robotic kits with motors or limited editions of all sorts of starships from Star Wars. Our metal will be more affordable, even taking into account the purchase of remote controls on Ali.

There is also an original metal construction set, Meccano. But again, it is very expensive and it is not easy to get it in our area. Therefore, here is the final photo of our wealth.