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I strongly advocate the acquisition of a Machinist's vice to ALL serious modelers... One of the most useful tools a modeler could hope to own, and for so many reasons. When it comes to holding a small (OR large as the case may be) object, so that another object may be removed from it... a good vice ...

Tried boiling water once upon a time.... I had a P-47 Thunderbolt, with a warped wing. I'd heard someone mention placing styrene in Boiling water... Big mistake. HUGE. Boiling water is WAY too hot for styrene, and wound up distorting my plastic beyond all hope of use... had to buy another kit. (whic...

Chacal had a very nice tip... using Bare Metal Foil on Polyethylene plastic. I had long wondered what the best way was, of using PET on models. Due to the 'waxy' nature of this particular plastic... getting paint to stick to it was beyond tough. Also, the only way to get a PET part to stick to anoth...

By the way Liberator... I forgot to mention... VERY nicely done, on your egg hulled ship. I could be wrong, but it appears to be 1/24 or 1/25 scale. I admire folks who build the larger scales. One of these days I'd like to build a (genuine not recast!) Mike Salzo/Scott Alexander X-wing fighter... an...

Bar, your globeship is VERY cool looking. Thanks for sharing it with us... This is the kind of ship I love to build... where you just see an object, and voila! Instant inspiration! Sparky... those engine greeblies of yours... are AWESOME. I'd love to have a few myself! I'd love to know the original ...

There isn't any "Battle" as it were, Lieutenant. My opinions are my own, and only my own. I generally say what I have to say once, and let it go at that. If you care to reread my prior posting, I also said I admire Dave's work. As a Scratchbuilder, David Merriman has few, if any peers. (Ju...

A word on Merriman's views on scratchbuilding... Dave is a very capable scratchbuilder. Dave is a very skillful scratchbuilder. However. Dave is an enormously opinionated and narrowminded scratchbuilder as well. I've learned an enormous amount about the "art" of scratchbuilding, from David...

Have literally boxes upon boxes filled with things I've "found" at the petfood stores, at Wally World, and at other odd intervals along my way. Driving a truck affords me the odd opportunity on layover, to scout for new Scratchbashing inspirations. I've walked out of a store with a likely ...

Have literally boxes upon boxes filled with things I've "found" at the petfood stores, at Wally World, and at other odd intervals along my way. Driving a truck affords me the odd opportunity on layover, to scout for new Scratchbashing inspirations. I've walked out of a store with a likely ...