Category: Tools
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I Shall Show You Ze Instruments…
Ve haf vays of making you pay attention. You may see und make your choice of ze conseqvences… No, no, no. Not that kind of movie. This is scale model building in the Little Workshop and we are all peaceful here.The only screams are when a fly walks over a fresh paint job. I have…
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Move Over Acme Manufacturing Co…
Because the Little Workshop is here and we’ve got the ideas that’ll make your life easier. They’re not giant projects – they’re not vast concepts – but by golly when we think things up, they’re half-vast. Like our new model building supports. We’ve all had times whilst building an airplane kit when we needed to…
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The Little Workshop – The Hanging Motor
When I was training as a dental student we encountered something in our first two weeks at university – two weeks before any other students even started – that has remained with me ever since – the hanging motor. I’d never seen one before but the utility of it became immediately evident. The motors came…
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If It’s Worthwhile Doing…
It’s worthwhile doing badly. Then looking at what can be improved, and doing it again. This was the unfortunate story of Ploesti, but that was also a tale of the baleful effects of listening to authority when you know you’re right. The other thing to consider is that if something is worth doing, it’s worth…
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The Little Workshop – Hoarding
Like the people who write school history books in Moscow, I often wish I could predict the past. I could make some sense out of the things that I have retained for either far too long or not quite long enough… Of course, some of the people reading this post will laugh at me. I…
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The Little Workshop – Floating Palettes
If you use computer programs to do art or to manipulate images you will recognise the term ” floating palette “. It is the ability to take a control panel from a fixed position on a computer and position it anywhere on the screen.This lets you access the controls that it offers without having to…
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