Members of the public look closely at the detail of models on display at the Model Engineering Exhibition in London’s Alexandra Palace, Friday, Jan. 15,2016.

The exhibition shows off finished products such as trains and ships to suppliers showing semi-professional lathes, scale drawing of various ships planes and cars to small gauge copper pipping, everything for an expert model maker to spend months making their detailed object.

A stall holder looks a at a working model of an early 19th century steam engine on display.

Model maker Roger Cuckoo lifts the command island off his 1/44th scale model of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier on display.

An array of tiny scale models of ships of all ages on display at the Model Engineering Exhibition in London’s Alexandra Palace.

A model jet warplane sits on the deck of a 1/44th scale model of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier. 

Alvin Peck adjusts a tiny scale model of the British warship HMS Royal George as it lays alongside 20th century Royal Naval aircraft carriers.

A 1/44th scale model of the USS Winston S. Churchill an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy.

A model called ‘Suzanne’, an Edwardian steam driven river boat, on display.

Model builder Bob Dilley looks at a working radio controlled sail boat at the Model Engineering Exhibition in London’s Alexandra Palace.