Scale Model Makers in India is known for their capacity in creating miniature models. Miniature models play an important role in education and training. Miniature model of the original products are kept at the board room of different companies to exhibit their prestigious projects. These models provide most critical and important features of the original machinery. Model making industry is growing in to big industry housing engineers having expertise in various engineering subjects. Engineering models require understanding of the subjects in depth. Scale models are produced according to the measurements of the original products and the scale used will be mentioned along with scale models, it may be 1:20 or 1:40, depends upon the requirement of the customers.
Impact of Scale Models: Scale models provide high impact presentation for any training or for any other operational studies. Models have got versatile functions having much more depth and width than anyone can imagine. With advancement in technology and presentation skills reaching to new heights, models and scale model makers can produce accurate and precise models. Models providing Industries are in great demand. Scale Models find its way not only in the engineering field, but it is necessary in almost every field one can imagine. Foremost uses found in educational field in the form of physical models, engineering field and architectural field in the form of miniatures models with scale measurement to compare and visualize and the list just goes on and on.
Materials to make Scale Model: It is highly specialized industry where expert engineers participate actively. It is extremely difficult to produce the prototype models of original products. Engineers use different materials like industrial grade acrylic, PVC, and poly carbonate using very critical machinery to produce prototypes according to the requirements of their clients.
Steps to create prototypes: It is extremely strenuous work to create prototypes. Sometime creating original is easier than that of prototypes. It is necessary to create the designs on paper as a first step. Lay out designing should be done as a first phase to create prototype, then suitable material is to be selected to create the prototype, then comes machining part of the prototype. After designing and planning with layout material selection becomes easier. Usually materials are selected in such a way that one can easily use the materials in formation, casting and machining so as to bring the material into required shape and form. Depending upon the necessity to create features of the original product suitable machineries are used in the creation of prototypes.
Uses of prototype machineries in engineering colleges: To use original machineries for the educational purposes is almost impossible, but at the same it is necessary to make students understand the working principles and theories connected with machineries. Therefore for them it is extremely useful to have prototype of original machineries so that students become aware about the complexity of the original machine and they will be able to understand the theory and subject perfectly and precisely. For mechanical engineering students it is one of the essential requirements.
