Making Mechanical Toys

- Seventeen original 'gallery' mechanical toys designed and made specially for this book. - Step-by-step instructions with over a hundred and forty colour photographs and sixty plans for making the toys. - Advice on tools and materials, priming and painting, and tricks of the trade draw upon the author's wide experience.

About the author

Rodney Peppe is author-illustrator of over eighty children's books, and creator of Huxley Pig and Angelmouse for television. Rodney Peppe's Moving Toys was published in 1980, and this led to his toymaking. He rarely sells, but exhibits in one-man shows at venues including the V&A Museum of Childhood and the National Theatre.

Product details

• Authors: Rodney Peppe, Peppe Rodney
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9780719844638
• ISBN: 978-0-7198-4463-8
• Dimensions: 215 mm x 260 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 593 g
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Creative design; CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Toymaking, Toys: making & decorating, Toys: making and decorating