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Woodpeckers
Interactive model pictures
Woodpeckers, by Stephen Westmoreland
Woodpecker model at Railex 2020
Twin Woodpecker models at Te Papa exhibition 2024
This model of a Woodpecker furiously attacks the trunk of a "tree" as it slowly works its way down it. It was first conceived by Melvyn Wright (UK) and described in the August 1969 Meccano Magazine. The much more attractive woodpecker used by Stephen is based on a "simplicity" model of a bird conceived by Ian Laing (South Africa) described in the April 1979 Meccano Magazine. At the 1982 Auckland NZFMM New Zealand exhibition Bruce Neilson had combined the two models and had five woodpeckers on trees in a row racing each other to the bottom!
Click here to watch a video taken at the RaileX 2024 exhibition, 16th and 17th November.