Re: Re: Plastic Models
By: Gryphon to thumper on Sun Nov 23 2014 11:05 am

> On 11/23/14, thumper said the following...

>
> Ah yes, I love plastic models. I made so many of them that I even had a
> little carousel holder for testor's paint bottles and a whole slew of
> model-making paraphenalia. I had liquid cement, files, sand paper, decal
> release, xacto knives of all kindes, cutter mat, and an airbrush with
> compressor. My favorites were the 1/48 scale WWII aircraft. Then I moved o
> to all the model dinosaurs, where each came with a realistic base, and all
> the different dinosaur bases could interlink to make one big diorama. I
> built a huge model of the USS Constitution, with full sail rigging. I built
> the Visible 8-cylindar engine with flashing rice-lights as the spark plugs.
> And lets not forget the ever present USS Enterprise, klingon battle cruiser,
> the space station and the Galileo shuttlecraft.
>
> Then I got in to making my own models from parts from many different kits.
> took the engines from the enterprise and glued them on to a ford mustang,
> added loads of body putty to make my own space ship model.
>
> Then I went to college.
>
I used to make airplane models. A few years back I found some kits in
storage I had from the early 1990's and finally finished a 1:48 scale B-17D.
I painted it with rattle can Rustoleum (easier than setting up the airbrush fo
r complete coverage, and cut out the bomb bay doors to put in a CR2023
battery cell hooked to bright red LED's in the cockpit, radio room, and waist
gunner's sections to simulate night lighting. When the lights are out, it's
cool to see the barely lit red glow from the windows. I had to spray the
interior with primer in order to block the light from shining through the
body pieces. I picked up an acrylics set to do the details, but I have a
long way to go before doing any high detail or weathering.

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