Tag: repair

• What Do You Do When It All Starts?

  

  Starts to go pear-shaped… Make cider, possibly. Or begin to panic. Panic is always a good choice as it gets the circulation going nicely. And you get a lot more done when you are screaming. Some kit builds progress well – they are logical procedures that flow from one to another as the structure matures.…

  Dick Stein

  December 5, 2024

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, damage control, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Organisation, Painting, Uncategorized, Weathering, workflow

  damage, panic, repair

• Spend Half Your Time Learning How To Do It Right

  

  Then spend the rest learning how to recover when it goes wrong. All kits have flaws…if not in the box, then in the buyer. Something will go awry in the build. If you are fortunate it will be small and early, and you can fix it before you go on. These are the times that…

  Dick Stein

  January 29, 2024

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, damage control, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, subassembly, Uncategorized

  recovery, repair, substitution

• The Broken Model

  

  Few accidents distressed me so much when I was a child as breaking a scale model. It happened occasionally when building, and then on during the display life of the item…we moved house frequently and you can imagine the toll this took on any collection I tried to build up. I came to appreciate Dinky…

  Dick Stein

  December 25, 2023

  1:72 scale, Collecting, Miniature Philosophy, Organisation, Uncategorized

  breakage, damage control, repair