Tag: preparation

• Is it Puttering Or Pottering?

  

  I mean the faffing about that you do in between builds. The tidying up of the workshop and the sharpening of tools. The filling of thinner bottles and the tossing out of dried-up paint. The time when you blow down the air compressor tank and then have to wash the floor. When you vacuum up…

  Dick Stein

  June 22, 2024

  Miniature Philosophy, Modelling materials, Organisation, research, Scale Models, Self Reliance, Uncategorized, Workshop

  claening, preparation, Workshop

• Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Three – Washing Day

  

  I’m gonna hang out the washing on the Mildenhall Line…and so on. Dad’s Air Force musters again. Today is washing day for the two new kits – the Grumman TBF-1 and the Boeing Fortress Mk III. I have beautiful weather for it – bone dry and a very modest 27º C temperature in the shed.…

  Dick Stein

  July 2, 2019

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, adhesives, British aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Workshop

  Boeing, Painting, preparation, Workshop