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Small scale models.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:53 pm
by Meter rat
Re: Small scale models.
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2022 8:23 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
Re: Small scale models.
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 9:41 am
by Meter rat
Herr Dr Professor. Thank you. Your modelling is better than your jokes’.
I have these in the wings, waiting to be built
- Your wish is my command
- Not really into WW2 stuff, but friends bought this as a moving present. The thought of all the PE stuff, looks terrifying.
Enough to keep me occupied for a while.
Re: Small scale models.
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 9:41 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
Oh, indeed, Photo Etch is so much fun. Some years ago I bought one of the other Tuesday modelers a 1/200 USS Hornet with hundreds of photo-etched parts. Ohhh! That was nasty of me:
Re: Small scale models.
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 9:45 pm
by tankme
My photo etch skills have greatly improved since using hot air, liquid flux, and liquid solder for soldering. Actually the liquid flux has helped all my soldering with hot air or iron. A specialized PE bending tool has also helped a lot. I bought one like this a few years back; although, it was about $10 cheaper back then:
https://www.amazon.com/Trumpeter-Photo- ... 5008&psc=1
Re: Small scale models.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:50 am
by Herr Dr. Professor
I checked it out: 45 smackers, bucks, greenbacks. If I really start having trouble with the bending pliers, I may need one. But first, I should probably spend on an eye exam and new glasses (the ones I have now are significantly pre-Covid
).
Re: Small scale models.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 12:28 pm
by Meter rat
I just throw any PE straight onto the floor for the carpet monster. Then make own from the sprue. A least that’s what seemed to happen when I built the 50 cal mg for my Abrams.
Re: Small scale models.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:17 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
A police drawing:
- Carpet Monster.png (7.6 KiB) Viewed 2151 times
Crime solved? I think not.
- apron-237x300.jpg (15.86 KiB) Viewed 2151 times
https://modelrailwayengineer.com/how-to ... t-monster/
Re: Small scale models.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:19 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
Now there is photo evidence:
- 4pnltk.jpg (60.91 KiB) Viewed 2150 times
Re: Small scale models.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:43 pm
by tankme
I can't even imagine the amount of time I've spent looking for parts on the floor under my bench. I have one of those plastic carpet protectors under my roll around chair so parts will actually bounce off of it and end up all over the place.