Modeling Mediums 103

Or am I doing something wrong??

Yup. *

"Best all round" doesn't mean the best for everything. *Most of a styrene plastic kit will want cement for styrene plastic. *Super glue (CA) is wonderful for getting tiny bits of other materials to stay in place and gives choices of setting times and gap filling. *White glue (PVA) won't cloud windscreens and is easily cleaned off.

Epoxy does need to be mixed in equal amounts (unless the instructions should say otherwise) and thoroughly. *It may help to mix a batch a good bit larger than you need at the moment (generally can't be helped.) *That will likely diminish problems with imprecise measuring. *Then you do whatever it takes to dab only a small amount just where you need it, maybe using several thin implements to corral the strings.

The latest issue of FineScale Modeler (Sept. '03) has a tip suggesting that baby wipes (pre-packaged pads with who-knows-what chemicals) can be used to clean up epoxy excess.

HTH

Dymphna passes lots of noxious gasses when she is modelling and it ain't the glues as what are responsible.

More like its her constant diet of tinned sardines, cheap beer, and baked beans that do it (plus her malodourous 'smalls') *

The Good Herr Doktor used to keep well downwind of her at almost all occasions. In fact he usually kept a weathervane on his person in order to determine the wind direction at any time, anywhere.

Any modeller having any business with her at all would do well to heed The Dear Departed Good Herr Doktor's advice (this excludes her swarthy gigolos who don't seem to mind.....).

All the Best

Neil E * 8)
Director,
M.O.D.E.L.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Herr Doktor was never down wind of me. He was right beside. So close in fact people used to ask what that ugly growth was on my side. Truth is the poor old man had become stuck to me when he made the very First batch of what we now call C.A. We didnt have C.A. remover back in those days. Not a chemical one anyway. When you stuck something to your person that should not of been there you just got out your blunt hobby knife and hacked it off.

That is why Herr Doktor has one leg shorter than the other.

Don't mean to interrupt Mme. Dymphna but I had another thought sort of on topic.

Something most inexperienced modelers (including me) won't have in mind is using jigs and clamps to free their hands for other uses. It is ever so much easier to have both hands free to apply glue rather than have one hand (and a half?) holding things together. Even if you need a finger or two to hold a new part in place, it can help if the larger part is already gently locked down.

[NeilE]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Herr Doktor was never down wind of me. He was right beside. So close in fact people used to ask what that ugly growth was on my side. Truth is the poor old man had become stuck to me when he made the very First batch of what we now call C.A. *We didnt have C.A. remover back in those days. Not a chemical one anyway. When you stuck something to your person that should not of been there you just got out your blunt hobby knife and hacked it off.

That is why Herr Doktor has one leg shorter than the other.

Its true that the Dear Departed Good Herr Doktor Von Humbrol was besotted by Madame Dymphna back in the 1920's, but he renounced her after he met the Baroness Helga Roden in 1932. Dymphna driven mad with jealousy and lust searched fruitlessly for any means to attack the Good Herr Doktor. Her chance came in a seamy Bohemian bar when she met the mysterious Eduard _____, a suspected blackmarket PE dealer. With the help of the conniving Eduard _____, Dymphna threatened to flood the modelling market with truck loads of PE for every conceivable model, unless the Good Herr Docktor gave in to her mad lusts.

Betrothed now to the wholesome, non-PE utilising Baroness Roden, the Good Herr Doktor spurned the lustful haridan. Despite the bet efforts of the Prague police, Dymphna and Eduard _____ released their PE onto an unsuspecting market to the detriment of modellers everywhere.

Eventually cornered in a disused warehouse in Warsaw, Dymphna abandoned Eduard _____, who died horribly after falling into a vat of his own illicit photo-etching fluid. Dymphna narrowly escaped but not before choking a Warsaw detective with a pair of her infamous smalls.

Since that day, Dymphna has been driven mad by her impotence to dint the lofty ideals of the Dear Departed Good Herr Doktor. Even now that she is (at least) 113 years old, she is driven on by her insane impotency to attack the lofty name of Von Humbrol when ever she can.

The Good Herr Doktor's legs were blessed by the Pope in 1967, who remarked that they were both the same length. Baroness Helga Roden-Humbrol still happily resides at the Von Humbrol family seat in Berne, Switzerland. The Good Herr Doktor is survived by four sons and one daughter: Stig, Georgi, Mustapha, Stalin, and Hedwig.

Hopefully this clears up Dymphna's confused ravings....

All the Best

Neil
Director,
M.O.D.E.L.

PS: M.O.D.E.L needs more funds, give generously now!!!!

OH Sweat Dymphna, I missed you sooooo.

Sometime you and I will have to eat boiled eggs and beans and beer together.....then just lay there and pass gas.

[StephenLawson]

Here we were just talking about fumes now were being assaulted! *GAS!<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>GAS!!GAS!!!Now, you will reach down to your protective mask, and with one swift pull open the front flap retrieving the mask itself with one quick movement... Placing your thumbs inside the mask bring it to your chin and place your face into the mask chin first. Next pull the mask entirely over your face and complete the application by adjusting the back straps with one pull with both hands on each strap. Clear the mask and Test the seal by forcing air out and then using your hands to cover the outer filter faces and attempt to breath in. *If the mask collapses against your skin then you have been successful. If not your screwed.....Where's the dead smilie? Aaah Yes,

With special thanks to Von Lemming;</span>

[NeilE]

Stephen;

Hopefully teaching us the proper use of gas masks and that gas mask routine might make her miasmic presence more bearable but does anyone (apart from Top Gun who is too far gone to care) want to get close to a 36 stone, stinky 113 year old female PE freak with homicidal tendencies?

Not me for one.

Lets discuss a wholesome topic, like jigs (as Von Lemming suggests), Professor Stephen. I find you can improvise them out of almost anything, cassette cases, coins, lego, all can work well in the right circumstance. What does everyone else use?



All the Best

Neil
Director
M.O.D.E.L.

[StephenLawson]

I prefer children's Lego blocks when I'm doing a jig. Or a three shot Irish (non-alocholic.) coffee Latte when I do an Irish Jig

For spur-of-the-moment support I find pliers (gripping, cutting, or fine-tipped tools if there needs to be a Euro translation) quite handy as they have some weight and some have cushioned handles. Paint pots are usually at hand as well. I also have an assortment of made-for-the-purpose clamps.