Category: Workshop
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The Costs Of A Decal
Well, that can’t be very much, can it? Try making your own and see… The idea of using the inkjet printer I already own to make custom decals was very attractive. I’m a dab hand with Photoshop Elements and as long as a design is reasonably simple, I can duplicate it. Even if it is…
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Expansion, Contraction, And You – Part Two
The basic idea today was to see how much warpage by expansion or contraction would be produced by various adhesives commonly used in the Little Workshop for scale model building. The substrates upon which they were to work were selected from common fibrous sheet material; good photo-quality bond paper, thin card, and matt board. These…
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Expansion, Contraction, And You – Part One
I’m not going to deal with how much you eat and what it does to your waistline, nor to whether your business is flourishing or failing. These forms of expansion and contraction form no part of the Little World. What does, however, is how various materials behave under various stimuli – heart, cold, damp, and adhesives.…
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North American Mustang I – Part Three – The Unholy Mess
Well, I gave it the old college try – or in this case the old Dental School try. I used red baseplate wax to mask off the Mustang I. It was old home week for a while there as I set up the bunsen burner and got the wax warmed up. If I was doing…
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North American Mustang I – Part Two – The House Of Wax
For the people my age, this is the title of a Vincent Price movie that will scare the pants off you. My take on it may scare you away from your modelling bench. But not me… This is red modelling wax. Also known as base plate wax. It’s used in a dental laboratory to establish the…
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Well, Boys, I’m Sticking To My Workbench
Yet again. Where the hell did that patch of superglue come from? I claim no record for the number of times that I have inadvertently adhered to the furniture. Not that I wouldn’t get it, but it’d be nothing to be proud of. It shows a triumph of sloppiness over organisation – but at least…
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The Importance Of Putting Away Your Too s
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of putting away your too s after you use them. Any workshop, whether it be big or sma wi deteriorate into a mae strom of confusion if you just eave your too s ying about after you have finished with them. I am not a fan of those organised…
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When Life Gives You Lemons
Or excess oranges…squeeze them and refine the oil from the peel. Then bottle it and sell it as model building cement. Or food flavouring. Or whatever – just get the customer to give you the money. Whether the resultant oily liquid makes good cakes or sticks model airplanes together effectively is irrelevant. As long as…
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The Junkman Cometh
And is damned proud of it, at his age. Now back to the Little Workshop. All junk is not junk. Some junk is junque – witness the sort of things that twee secondhand shops import from Pakistan and sell as genuine. Junque indeed. Some junk is material that is just resting between engagements. The box…
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Unsticking – Part Two – The Experiments
The mules were back in business today – 8 plastic panels coated with aqueous acrylic paint – 4 with the same Mr. Hobby gloss red that featured on the Piasecki Flying Banana – four with a Tamiya flat red. I sprayed, then let the paint cure in a hot workshop for a couple of hours.…
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