A part will be attached to the sprue at a point carefully designed to do the maximum damage to delicate details.
If part “A” must, absolutely, without question - really, REALLY MUST - be attached BEFORE part “B,” the reverse is also true.
A Southwestern US law: The more tightly you seal your display case, the more dust will get in.
Corrollary to that: If dust settles at some rate, “R”, on the diecast piece of junk your brother-in-law gave you on Groundhog Day, it will settle at “R-squared” on the finest piece of work you’ve ever done.
The day after you finish a model you’ve based on that super-accurate and authentic [need I add expensive?] reference work, someone will post irrefutable proof that it’s baloney.
Same will be said if you scratchbuilt every part and detail on this model, only to have a complete kit come out in the same month you have finished your scratchbuilt one.
This isn’t as clever a the others, but I have found it too true:
Any irreplaceable part (scratchbuilt or expensive PE) will spring from tweezers and break new ground in Physics, finding a doorway into another dimension.
While researching, you will find reference after reference on steam power plants for ships’ boats (even Imperial Nepalese Navy Admiral’s Barges) in endless, repetitive supply. This will appear to be to the exclusion of what you are seeking information about.
Until you try to find that info on Imperial Russian Steam Launches for someone under time pressure . . . (‘could’a sworn there was 15 dozen monographs las’ time I looked . . . )
Aftermarket items, even short-run cottage items will not appear until you have clumsily decided to show off your “well, that’s going to have to good enough for now” hack scratch builds.
(To that, let me appologize, it’s probably my fault that there is not aftermarket 1/32 or 1/32 bar armor for VN Riverine craft–I just can’t pull the trigger to lead with my embarassment first )
While researching, you will find reference after reference on steam power plants for ships’ boats (even Imperial Nepalese Navy Admiral’s Barges) in endless, repetitive supply. This will appear to be to the exclusion of what you are seeking information about.
Until you try to find that info on Imperial Russian Steam Launches for someone under time pressure . . . (‘could’a sworn there was 15 dozen monographs las’ time I looked . . . )
Yup. I finished a B-17 a while back, and afterward, someone asked me for provenance on something I’d done on the kit. I’ll be dipped if I can find any of the dozen or so photos of it!
LoL! Used to have a great huge threatening to bury a person stack of After the Battle. Never could find the photos in them that I remembered seeing. Cured that problem by selling’em off .
I just now remember another Murphy. If you have to drill holes to mount things for specific versions/items/whatever–you will forget to do that only after having achieved the most flawless seam & joints possible. Then, when you temp fate and sand the finish off jsut bit past bare plastic to get the holes to barely show through as halos–you’ll drill out the wrong ones . (What do you mean, there’s no such thing as a transitional A-7D/E?)
That mysteriously missing (but essential) part you’ve been searching for (for HOURS)… WILL magically re-appear…about 5 minutes AFTER you finish scratchbuilding a new one…