Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Making a Micro set and sol holder. 3d printing for the modeler



On the Grumpy Old modeler  face book yesterday. Dave Chow posted about making a 3d print. The print created was to keep a modeler from spilling over his Micro Set or Sol.   Let face it we all have done that.   These decal solutions are not getting any cheaper.  I for one would like to be able to get through a complete bottle of the stuff.  The run time was 2 hour 35 minutes.  The end result was that bad.

The tubes on the side are for holding your brushes. 




Click in link below for file:
         3d STL file for holder.

Friday, April 19, 2019

A6M Zero Variants

Trying to figure out the variants on the Zero design can be confusing at times.  Here is a guide that might help you figure out the changes


















Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Marc Schachter

The Heart of the Beast ..Best Aircraft at the 2015 San Antonio IPMS Show.
Model builder: Marc Schachter.














Saturday, April 13, 2019

1/144 aircraft and decals

I was into building airliner models back in the early 80's.  My buddy Boh was into making them. As he told me there is gold in building these kits.  He had a few customers that he would build airlines for.   Today I found this company the sell airline decals pretty nice decals. Plus he sell kits of aircraft one is currently making.  Link here: 26 Decals