southwestforests

Even though messy health now greatly interferes with building models, I very much enjoy coming here to see who is doing what & I greatly appreciate y'all who are working to keep this place usable. 🙂

Going to use it for the asteroid in your diorama of the upcoming asteroid deflection spacecraft? 🤔 😁 Note that I say that as a person who in early 2000s ended up having emergency surgery having gallstones and kidney stones at same time. Seriously un-fun but it felt so much better when it was done. Happy healing to ya!

My experience with thin CA confirms those suspicions, it is very much Not a thing where you want to be multitasking while using - when using thin CA make sure you are very much there in the present moment and focused on what you are doing. Can't really say whether gap filling and gel are the same or not, I've gotten away with using them both where minor gaps were involved. Use different types for different jobs.

Do enough different instances of applying soldering heat to small bits of sheet brass and there is a large probability of those repeated applications of heat, oh, what's the word, annealing?, the parts and leaving them almost as floppy as paper.

Will second that from experience with model trains.

They are useful for all manner of models and miniatures. Nice thing about having bristles so long is that the brush can still carry a decent amount of paint. Use of thinners and retarders is pretty much mandatory for not having paint start drying in those long bristles.

Splurged while totally unaware of this change and spent some of my "Yeah baby, I am so gonna get rich quick!" Social Security Disability on an Eduard etched detail set for Voyager space probe from Sprue Brothers in Liberty, MO, about 15 miles from where my parents live. Details are going on a sci-fi build. And on a few craft items via Amazon. Originally felt guilty spending that much money all in one month, about $60, from my limited income, but, the most amazing coincidence just happened, After reading this, All that guilt suddenly vanished in to the aether like some kin

Ah, okay. Thanks y'all!

Hey Y'all; Are those B-17 lower wing insignia different sizes? Or is it some kind of optical illusion? Upper one seems like it is longer relative to aileron length & is taller relative to wing chord? https://www.tumblr.com/bisforbomber/786084756984086528?source=share

Looks like the tests got a passing grade. 😁 X24-A very much captures the look of an industry model you'd see in someone's office. Don't know/recall whether that is the goal you were shooting for, but it very much hits the mark if that was indeed the target. 🎯

Yet another. Have been pleased with Flickr since 2008. There is your overall photostream then you can create albums, and can create galleries. I've made albums but haven't used the galleries feature. Link that Da SWO mentioned also gives different size options for image in forums.

Same here! Actually looks good in that grey. Strange about the seats. Interesting note about fuselage flexing.

As it happens, I've had 2 of the Lindberg issue kits for over a decade now. One is halfway along being science fiction-ized using smaller scale figures. Other is part way along being built as itself. Have used a Monogram F-84 cockpit and pilot from a secondhand kit which was bought to strip for parts for sci-fi models. Have used Evergreen styrene tubes to make something which at least sort of mostly looks like the turbine exhaust pipes at back end & also to sort of represent the rest of the intake ducting. From what I've see in email newsletters from

Ahh, will have to make a note of that. 🙂 Have one partly constructed which might get done by the end of this century. Recently got email from Atlantis that they are reissuing that Lindberg kit. Nice reference photo.

Who says model building is not a dramatic adventure. 😄