Tag: jigs

• Doing A Little Jig

  

  And ‘tis not even St. Patrick’s Day, begorrah. I’ve been watching the YouTube modellers painting their planes and cars and musing about the business of the production jig. You’ve read about this before here in the Little World as I glue together bits of foamcore board to support aircraft during the painting process. I think…

  Dick Stein

  January 14, 2019

  1:72 scale, Decals, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly, Tools, Uncategorized, Workshop

  decaling, gluing, jigs, Painting

• Messerschmitt 109 – Part Four – The Production Line

  

  I cannot think of a worse way to approach the business of being a scale modeller than that of a production line worker with a contract to produce a product in a set time. This also applies to the full-size workers who made the full-size airplanes – Some were employed and some were drafted and…

  Dick Stein

  September 8, 2018

  1:72 scale, German aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Tools, Uncategorized, Workshop

  bow pen, jigs, Painting, production

• 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…

  Dick Stein

  May 7, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Chinese models, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Tools, Workshop

  jigs, Painting, Tools, workshop tools