Hi Jerry,
No, I have never considered selling my models or using them as screen savers.
My company web site does feature a few in the "Serious designs just for fun" section of the gallery (
www.mdltd.org) and one of these, the Bentley BR2 WWI rotary engine appeared in Dr. Tom Dine's (of the Bentley Foundation) book "W O Bentley Rotary Aero Engines" on P.19. I was happy and flattered to supply that FOC as the author personally signed a copy of his book for me.
An awful lot of my work is covered by NDA's and so I struggle to find models to illustrate some of my skills, hence this section of my web site.
From my POV as I did not create the designs of some of these models I am reluctant to take any credit, but I do enjoy recreating them in a computer environment - sort of virtual machining of the parts (if you understand what I mean). If I create a design that has been requested by a customer then that is an entirely different story - I charge for my time in that case.
Given the necessary workshop equipment I have the skills to reproduce most of these designs myself, but I am happy to do so virtually.
If any reader has experience of solid modelling then they will know immediately why I have been in love with it for 36+ years. It is not something that is easily explained to someone that has not used it. It's an itch I have to scratch!
Regards all,
Dave