by Dakota Rohlin | Jul 5, 2024 | Engines, What's New
Eighteen new engines by Roger Butzen are now on display at the Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum courtesy of the Engine Collection of Paul and Paula Knapp. All of the new items on display were built by the late Roger Butzen of Texas, who was a personal friend...
by Dakota Rohlin | May 3, 2024 | Engines, Internal Combustion (ICE), What's New
Tim Mundt recently donated an unassembled (but partially machined) casting kit for an Elmer Wall 4-cylinder water-cooled gas engine. Mr. Mundt also included some engineered drawings and blueprints for the scale model engine. This unassembled Wall engine is on display...
by Dakota Rohlin | Mar 11, 2024 | Boats, Engines, What's New
The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum is excited to announce the arrival of a new scale model from master craftsman Louis Chenot. Mr. Chenot, who received the Joe Martin Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, has donated his finished 1/6 scale Gar Wood 33-50...
by Dakota Rohlin | Apr 13, 2023 | Boats, Engines, What's New
Jerry Miles Lake was an RC airplane enthusiast long before he got into model steam engines. Around 2018, he decided to buy a Saito T2DR steam engine and related gear. After bench running the engine, Mr. Lake started searching for a boat that it might fit in. He wound...
by Dakota Rohlin | Mar 10, 2023 | Engines, What's New
Six new engines are now on display courtesy of the Paul Knapp Collection. Three of the engines were built by Butch Wilson, who worked for Dan Gurney, the owner and driver for All American Racers. Mr. Wilson also worked for the team when Bobby Unser, an Indy 500...
by Terry Miller | Aug 26, 2022 | Engines, What's New
Now on display, 12 New engines from the Paul Knapp collection. Builders include Seidel, Hoagland, Howell, Riggle, Schindele, and Washburn. For a short time, we will be demonstrating the Schindele hit-n-miss Power Saw along with our other small engine...
by Dakota Rohlin | Mar 6, 2019
This 1/4 scale model Bentley BR2 rotary engine was built by Paul Knapp, of Arizona, in 1993. The model weighs almost 12.5 pounds without stand. L=14″, W=12.5″, H=14″. Paul Knapp constructed this model with the help of Lew Blackmore’s book,...
by Dakota Rohlin | Mar 6, 2019
Forest Edwards builds and flies scale model airplanes and engineers miniature engines. He has won numerous awards for his scale airplanes, engines and flying skills. In the early 1980s, Edwards designed and developed this 5-cylinder radial engine to power his...
