Tag: workflow

• How Long Ya Going To Be?

  

  There’s people here who need to go… Well, it’s not about that, though the topic is really one that can rivet you to the seat, if you know what I mean. I mean how long should you take to build a model? Well, if you are a model engineer setting out to build a coal-fired…

  Dick Stein

  April 7, 2024

  Block Models, design, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling materials, Organisation, subassembly, Uncategorized, workflow

  efficiency, timing, workflow

• Dassault Super Mystere – Part Three – Masking and Painting

  

  Which would be good things to do if you did them in the right order. Perhaps that’s the disadvantage of working on a fortnight-only model. You forget where you were and skip a stage. Then you have to backtrack and do it the hard way. I proceeded well with the basic construction – attached the…

  Dick Stein

  September 20, 2023

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Decals, Israeli aircraft, Lacquer, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, workflow

  Masking, Painting, workflow

• Do Not Build

  

  A useful list of things not to do in the scale model hobby… a. Do not build tired. Too late at night spoils paint jobs. b. Do not build drunk. One more little one can’t hurt you, but five more can. Hobby knives can cut flesh as easily as styrene. c. Do not build angry.…

  Dick Stein

  November 23, 2022

  finances, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Weathering, workflow

  cautions, model kits, workflow

• Mind The Gap

  

  I started my search for the perfect gap filler to make my plastic models seemingly seamless a long time ago. Well six years or so, anyway. When there was still Stanbridges – Elvis and dinosaurs having passed away. The first tube I bought was from Tamiya, and unlike most of their products, was far from…

  Dick Stein

  January 23, 2022

  1:72 scale, adhesives, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  fillers, seams, workflow, Workshop

• Hawker Tempest – Part Two – It Might Just As Well…

  

  It might just as well be a Buster…and it might just as well be a Hobby Boss kit rather than an Academy product. The building experience has been just as rapid. I washed the sprue trees for this Tempest at about 12:30 – the basic airframe enclosing a painted cockpit was ready for the photo…

  Dick Stein

  November 9, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, workflow

  Hawker Tempest, kit fit, workflow

• The Point Of Conception

  

  There has been a great deal of debate on the subject of when life actually starts – medical, legal, and religious authorities have all weighed in with their opinions and formulated laws based upon findings and calculations.There’s been a good deal of doctrine and dogma involved as well – if you think about it, any…

  Dick Stein

  June 11, 2020

  1:72 scale, design, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Organisation, Uncategorized, workflow

  application, stash, workflow, Workshop

• The Integrated Multi-Level Spatial Constructional Workflow Paradigm

  

  Oops, sorry. I had the Dilbert switch turned on there when I typed that. Lemme turn it off. Here we go again. ” When To Glue Things On. ” That’s better. As a topic it may seem a lot more complex than it really is…because the whole thing basically is not to stick something on…

  Dick Stein

  May 18, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, Japanese aircraft, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  instruction sheets, planning, workflow