KARAYA High Qaulity 48th WWI Resin Kits

[mgtaylor]

I think its a great feature for all scales. It's probalbly very labor intensive in manufactuering. Too bad for us I think ALL WWI Scales would emmensly benifit from such feature. Even for instance rodens 32nd Scale Fokker Interplane struts and spindley Albatros and Pfalz Legs. It adds a structural strength to the kit so it is unlikely to crack off with the first movement of the finished kit from the table .

The Strudy bendable locator pin is another benefit as well. It almost re-defines the term 'locator Pin', back to what they must have first been a real metal pin ?

I need a better pin vise dril bit if I am going to manange to use that techinue of "pinning" to even 32nd struts. I had wanted ot do it with the Ev build I had but I took one look at the tiny end of even a 32nd german strut and I was like "And I am going to fit the end of a micro drill bit where ?"

But I know it is done and often a common experinced modelers technique / tool for WWI on much much smaller scale builds.

Yours mike

[ChrisSavaglio]

Every time I go to Japan, I go to the local home improvement store and pick up a set or two of micro drill bits....$15-20 for 20 or so bits going from .2mm to 1.6mm in 1mm and .5mm increments. The little ones break easily. Last time my normal store closed, so I'll have to find a new source....

I won a tool at a contest auction, tucked in with a few other items. It's a spring loaded pen looking device, but it has an ultra sharp point instead of a ball pen tip. I used this to make a small pin prick and this helps give the drill bit a starting point.

I use .010" and .020" brass rod most times, bent at close to the right angle before I insert it. You'd be surprised how much strength this gives. Once rigged (if you use a functional rigging method, like monofiliment), the models are surprisingly strong. You don't have to go too deep at all, less than 1/8"

Not to change the direction of the thread.....

Chris