Category: subassembly

• The Mask Of Scale-Model Comedy Is A Mask Of 1:1 Tragedy

  

  And vice versa. And even if you have come to prefer your vice versa, you still have to take time out of your busy round of orgies to deal with the painting on your model airplane, structure, or car. And inevitably you are going to need to mask something off for some reason. Brace yourself…

  Dick Stein

  March 23, 2018

  Modelling Supplies, Painting, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  airbrushing, camouflage, Masking, Painting

• The Resin Problem

  

  Note: This is the second time this post has appeared in The Little World – I miscued it yesterday. If you are confused, join the club… Let’s hope the cunning plan works, Baldrick. Well, the Special Hobby 1:72 Anson is progressing, but the journey has been one of some rather unpleasant discoveries: a. The interior…

  Dick Stein

  March 22, 2018

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly

  Polyurethane resin, resin casting, warpage

• Not Quite Thought Through Yet

  

  The preliminary work on a model is sometimes the hardest thing to do – and this applies to big scratchbuilds as well as to the humble kit. As well, there is always something that you like doing least of all in the workflow. It can be planning, marking out, jigging, sub assemblies, or repetitive part…

  Dick Stein

  March 12, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  cyanoacrylate glue, Norhtrop, subassemblies