SPA Modeler

Thanks guys!

LyleW wrote:That looks good. The lwork on the tail is something.

The black plastic may suck to work with but it doesn't present a kind of cool picture with the black plastic contrasting with the rivets and repair work.

speedgraflex wrote:This is a beautiful design. Do you have more photographs of the underwing scribing work you have done? I like the effects with the airbrush primer. Is that Mr. Surfacer?

Not yet. It's been a bear with the inadequacy of the sprue goo experiment. Based on what I've been told, the stuff is probably STILL curing. But I've got the panel lines almost to where I want them. I'll post more pics when the wings get riveted. I've been using different colored paints instead of just Mr Surfacer as a primer to check my work.

But here's a photo I forgot to post. I just picked up this CA glue station. The station itself if probably unnecessary and a bit overkill but I thought it was kind of cool looking. You drop your CA glue onto the one of those two metal pillars (you could use almost ANYTHING instead) and use the applicator to apply the glue. The applicators are what make this useful to me and it's packaged with about six of these. The two-prong end supplies enough surface tension to hold a drop of thin CA glue and you use capillary action to apply the glue. This will be useful when I start with the photoetch flaps. Before I was using a toothpick and it just wasn't working very well. To clean the excess glue off the tool, you just burn it off.

I've been known to use white glue too. I've also been using Future, as recommended by Radu of RB Productions.

jkim wrote:

That is a cool and good looking thing indeed! I guess it's heavy enough to stay pretty much where it's put ?

Actually, most of the stuff that DSPIAE comes with is cool. Great it's also branded as MENG, easier to "talk about"

- Kari

That's a cool looking setup. I have a sewing needle with the eye cut in half and the other end chucked in a pen vice. Still find myself using a toothpick for a lot of stuff.

That looks a lot more advanced than the Pringles lid and cocktail stick set up I use

Great progress on that assembly John!

One to rule them all... I have used this on styrene from Monogram, Hasegawa, Special Hobby, Fine Molds and now Academy with superb adhesion. It has a very nice brush, which is small enough for 1:72. My only complaint is it costs 8 USD for 4g.