Meccano Sets - Construction For Older Children
Meccano sets are designed for play by older children, usually in the aged eight and up age group.
The Meccano metal building system is the ideal way for young boys, and girls too, to discover the wonders of mechanical Meccano construction.
The classic Meccano was nuts and bolts, strips and girders, with the occasional wheels in appropriate places to make a vehicle of sorts.
It worked well.
Today's sets can have motors - even remote control! The Micro Helicopter is a good example of the old school style of construction kit building.
This set has just 30 parts.
Many of them are common to other model sets and are standard fittings for the model building toy in general.
A few of the parts are more specialist and in keeping with what parts of a helicopter should look like.
This is part of the greater Micro collection, a basic introduction to Meccano metal constructions, and a good lead in to more sophisticated stuff.
Greater sophistication comes with the 30 Model Set, for example.
This is a construction set that has all the parts to allow a child to build no less than 30 different and very exciting models.
Once again a helicopter can be built, as well as 12 other detailed plans.
There are also 18 suggestions, making 30 in all.
However, the number of accessories and parts in Meccano sets such as this one only allows for the building of one model at a time.
Perhaps to make up for this, a 6 volt motor is included to help make your models move - fast! If one motor is not enough to get the adrenalin flowing swiftly, then how about two motors! The IR Dual Motor Set has just that.
There are no less than 400 parts, allowing the construction of 12 great looking models, each with two different movements, which can be moved both at the same time.
For example, you can have a crane mounted on a truck.
The truck can be driven while the crane swivels, all through remote control.
The dual motors are powered by 8 AA batteries, which are not included, but readily available.
Meccano sets are wonderful educational toys.
They show children how things work through construction.
When you have model kits and have to take the pieces and parts and build them up from scratch, according to a plan, many things fall into place in the young minds.
They start to see common household objects as built up models - a toaster, a fridge, an electric kettle, etc.
They realise that all these things have parts that can be put together to make a new whole.
That's the world that Meccano sets can open up!
The Meccano metal building system is the ideal way for young boys, and girls too, to discover the wonders of mechanical Meccano construction.
The classic Meccano was nuts and bolts, strips and girders, with the occasional wheels in appropriate places to make a vehicle of sorts.
It worked well.
Today's sets can have motors - even remote control! The Micro Helicopter is a good example of the old school style of construction kit building.
This set has just 30 parts.
Many of them are common to other model sets and are standard fittings for the model building toy in general.
A few of the parts are more specialist and in keeping with what parts of a helicopter should look like.
This is part of the greater Micro collection, a basic introduction to Meccano metal constructions, and a good lead in to more sophisticated stuff.
Greater sophistication comes with the 30 Model Set, for example.
This is a construction set that has all the parts to allow a child to build no less than 30 different and very exciting models.
Once again a helicopter can be built, as well as 12 other detailed plans.
There are also 18 suggestions, making 30 in all.
However, the number of accessories and parts in Meccano sets such as this one only allows for the building of one model at a time.
Perhaps to make up for this, a 6 volt motor is included to help make your models move - fast! If one motor is not enough to get the adrenalin flowing swiftly, then how about two motors! The IR Dual Motor Set has just that.
There are no less than 400 parts, allowing the construction of 12 great looking models, each with two different movements, which can be moved both at the same time.
For example, you can have a crane mounted on a truck.
The truck can be driven while the crane swivels, all through remote control.
The dual motors are powered by 8 AA batteries, which are not included, but readily available.
Meccano sets are wonderful educational toys.
They show children how things work through construction.
When you have model kits and have to take the pieces and parts and build them up from scratch, according to a plan, many things fall into place in the young minds.
They start to see common household objects as built up models - a toaster, a fridge, an electric kettle, etc.
They realise that all these things have parts that can be put together to make a new whole.
That's the world that Meccano sets can open up!
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