Tag: glues

• 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…

  Dick Stein

  March 16, 2019

  adhesives, card models, Modelling materials, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  adhesives, cements, contraction, expansion, experiment, glues

• 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…

  Dick Stein

  March 8, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  adhesives, Czech models, glues, superglue

• Ungluing The Kit

  

  Or ” Are You Stuck With it? “. A recent question on Phil Flory’s YouTube channel about dissolving old glue on a model kit – really old 1950’s Testor cement – was ably handled by the team of English modellers when they advised the questioner to put it away for another 50 years and wait…

  Dick Stein

  December 7, 2018

  Modelling materials, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  adhesives, cements, glues