I have just joined after looking on the site for a while.
I have had a mini lathe for about 3 years and a small Warco mill for a couple of years. I have made a few accessories and added cheap TouchDRO read outs to my lathe and mill. For the lathe I used cheap Aldi digital calipers and made an Arduino interface linked to a cheap Android tablet for the display. For the mill, I bought 2 of the Dros with individual small displays but found them too small, so I bought another for the quill and made another interface.
I have just upgraded to a larger lathe, a Warco WM290.
I have only built one model to date, the Muncaster entablature engine by Jason Ballamy serialised in Model Engineer magazine. I have had it running on air, but it is in bits at the moment to be painted.
I also bought a part built Sweet Pea loco, but apart from buying more materials, I haven’t made a start on it yet.
Stuart