Tag: clamps

• RAAF Spitfire Mk Vc – Part Three – Peg ‘0 My Heart

  

  I love you… Okay, there is an earworm for you. If you are too young to know the tune put your cap on backwards, go away, and stare at your mobile phone. I am the strange old guy in the supermarket that looks at clothes pegs. Or the weirdo in Bunnings that tests out every…

  Dick Stein

  November 24, 2025

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, damage control, design, Self Reliance, subassembly, Tools, Uncategorized

  cementation, clamps, warpage

• Big Pinch – Little Pinch

  

  A gripping story… The best tool I ever purchased from Stanbridges was a set of clamps by Xacto. The buy was in 1974 when Stanbridges was Stanbridges and Xacto was Xacto… The clamps are made of metal, though I often wonder which one. I would have guessed aluminium but lately I’m not so sure. Originally…

  Dick Stein

  December 21, 2023

  design, Hobby Shops, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, Tools, Uncategorized, Workshop

  cementing, clamps, Workshop

• Grumman Goblin I – Part Three – Fuselage of Courage

  

  The title of this column recognises that there is a certain stoutness of spirit required when you try to close up a fuselage, car body, or hull. The reality of what the plastic is going to do can be a lot different from the blandishments of the instruction sheet. I’ve written before about what the…

  Dick Stein

  September 30, 2021

  1:72 scale, adhesives, Canadian aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Tools

  cement, clamps, fuselage, warpage

• Martin B10 Bomber – Part Four – If I Want A Pretzel…

  

  …I’ll go to the bakery. The production of a complex fuselage is…well…complex. And sometimes the strange shape must cause the final product to come out of the mould a little distorted. I suspect this was the case with the Martin B 10. There was enough of a warp to render it impossible to set all…

  Dick Stein

  June 28, 2021

  1:72 scale, adhesives, American aircraft, Czech models, design, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  clamps, fuselage, Martin bomber, warp

• Lockheed Lodestar – Part Five – My Father’s Son

  

  I’ll say this now, at the risk of a haunting tonight – my father had some strange ideas. Not strange as in socially strange or religiously strange – his were more mechanically strange. They were generally a result of a problem that had to be solved, no fancy equipment at hand, and the availability of…

  Dick Stein

  January 21, 2019

  1:72 scale, airliner, Canadian aircraft, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Workshop

  clamps, Little Workshop, problem solving, supports, windows

• Squeeze Me, Baby…

  

  I am constantly amazed at the sort of things that I can do with 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. I mean past the business of slashing car tyres and robbing poor boxes – I mean in the Little Workshop when the time comes to glue something. Because nothing ever cements to anything else without being…

  Dick Stein

  January 4, 2019

  Miniature Philosophy, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Tools, Workshop

  clamps, clips, grips, peg, vices