Tag: measurement

• The AK Paint Tip

  

  AK paints are good material to work with – I found this out by buying a couple of box sets at the Melbourne plastic model exhibition. They are three-bottle collections for RAF fighter aircraft of WW2. One is for early schemes and one for late. Think green/brown/sky and grey/green/grey. Before I purchased them I asked…

  Dick Stein

  October 23, 2019

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Colour Schemes, Enamel, Lacquer, Modelling materials, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  airbrushing, measurement, paint, Science, thinner

• Standin’ On The Tarmac – Part Two – The Lowdown

  

  How tall are you? If you can smoke cigars, drink whiskey, and join the army, you are likely to be about 1.5-1.8 metres tall, with your eyes some 120 mm lower down than the top of your head. I realise there are people outside the average and I salute them, but let’s take an example…

  Dick Stein

  April 11, 2019

  1:72 scale, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, Tabletop Photography, Uncategorized

  cameras, height, lenses, measurement, Tabletop Photography

• I Want Electric Paint

  

  I want fine-grain paint that stays liquid, spreadable and self levelling, and clings to vertical surfaces without sagging. I want it to stay in this condition until I pass a small electric current through it, whereupon I want it to set hard in ten seconds. Thereafter to be sandable and proof against solvents. Is this…

  Dick Stein

  March 23, 2019

  Acrylic, adhesives, Enamel, Lacquer, Modelling materials, Painting, research, Scale Models, Tools, Uncategorized

  glues, measurement, paint, thinners