one quick question when doing the tracks is cursing mandatory or only optional, I have found it to be a bit mandatory. I am really enjoying building my first tank. I am just learning the joys of trying to find small plastic objects that I have either dropped or somehow flown across the room.[:I]
…carpeting …is the enemy…jeffl
and pets are Godzilla
At times cursing! At times shouts of ‘quasi-joy’ for the riffler files I have. They make sanding down the 4 ejector pin marks per track, on this DML Panther D I’m currently working on, a whole lot easier!!!
Glenn
I keep my mag light handy when ever I am working on one of my kits. [swg] I think I spend more time looking for lost parts, than I do assembling things (some times). My wife is accustomed to hearing tiny parts ricochet arond the room… sounds of ricocheting plastic is usually followed by short bouts of profanity.
Herr Gray [:-^]
Tweezerpulting parts around the modelling room is part of the joy we get from building.
Think in terms of the benefits we recieve every time we launch a part.
- Patience - from the moment the part is launched are patience is tested until the little fella is found (if ever found)
- Exercise - It makes us get up and out of our chairs, stretching our legs and backs, working all the kinks out of the body.
- Visual Testing - keeps our eyes focussed and keen as we look for that tan part on out tan carpets.
- Humbling - all of us need to get down on our knees once in a while.
Well, I think cursing is mandatory when working on Aber’s 1/35th scale tool brackets… Actually I think cursing is appropriate when working on anything from Aber if I think about it. To minimize my abusive language while modelling…I almost always use ModelKasten or FruilModel tracks.
our sympathies Mrs Dj,[:p]
sherm, you said it all in just one word: tweezerpulted!!![:0][:(!][V]
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regards,
nick
sherman you hit it right on the head with that statement. last week when i was workiing on my 247 i had a hatch handle go flipping out of my tweezers and of course right on the tan carpet and the part was tan at. that. so a few choices words came out and never did find the part, but i have found a great way to find them.if you got one of those car vacs use that it cutt them timein half on finding them smal parts.
Robert forgot some additional skills that we hone with building:
5) Improving our manual dexterity-which happens when we chance to find those missing parts and attempt to retrieve them
6) Increasing our agility- as we crawl under tables, chairs, desks, weave around furniture in the ever-elusive hunt for missing parts.
7)- Improving eye-hand coordination: well, maybe not that, but someday, maybe. If we had mastered that, we wouldn’t need all the other skills!
P.S.- Cursing is an adjunt that may or may not be mandatory, depending on circumstances. It does help releive the elevated blood pressure issues related to item #'s 1-7.
I guess I will be cursing when I start building my Indy tracks for my Sherman calliope.
mark956
Sherman I am impressed tweezerpulted…Maybe all of you “experienced” modelers could start a New Modelers Dictionary terms for us new persons!
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Thats a good idea Mrs. Dj.
mark956
Little lost parts sharpen the eye, and build great detective skills, And yes I find Cussing to be a great way of Calming down when I am alone in the house, when my parents get home from work, I have to keep it low.
Tweezerpulted?? I like it. And as Ga.modeler said, one of the better ways to retrieve those tiny parts is to use a vacuum cleaner that has a dust cup instead of a bag. Of course, you have to make sure that dust cup is cleaned out first, but I have saved many small parts with it. Especially when you live in a house built in the 70s and your modeling room still has shag carpet. Tile floors make finding small parts easier-- think of the sound of the part ricocheting off the wall then across the tile floor-- but those tile floors get awful cold up here in New England in December.
I believe there is always a bit of cursing during a build. For me it seems to be getting a little too much glue all over the place or sanding down a rivet or something by accident.
As with my real tank, I’m not truely happy till I’m cursing at it. [censored]
Hey, anyone thought of putting white/clear plastic sheet below the workbench?
I haven’t, but since i have a concrete floor, and poor overhead lighting, and a tendancy to drop the small parts-and arms and legs, I even once dropped my half completed halftrack(yesterday) I think that I should go with that very soon, and wire in more lights…never tweezerpulted a part, although my little soldering aligator claws lost hold of a troopers boot, and he went flying into the abbyss.
I think its been done before.
some modeling company should cme out with a modelers desk, with spaces for everything, but also with (drum roll please) adjustable netting around the sides!! [;)][:D]