Saturday, December 31, 2011

Gallery: B737-300 TAESA [Minicraft 1/144]

Model: Boeing 737-300 
Scale: 1/144
Manufacturer: Minicraft
Year finished: 2007
Extras: Extratech photoetched set, Avalon Decals

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Tips and Tricks - Heavy duty sanding


Since not many kits out there holds the status of "absolute perfect fit", we face sanding issues on most of our builds. There's plenty available tools, sandpapers, sticks and blocks dedicated for this stage of model assembly. And we want to pass it quickly and easily, which is however in opposite with keeping all moulded details and surrounding surfaces intact.
The option we often choose is use of sandpaper with higher grit number (Super&Ultra fine microgrits). But that is slowing us down, especially when heavy sanding is needed due to very bad fit of plastic parts. 

Friend of mine, fellow modeller, had recommended sandpaper which whilst having significantly low grit number is causing only reasonable damage to plastic. There is unfortunately  no Manufacturer name printed, all it says is SUPER EasyCUT WET + DRY ELECTRO COATED LATEX cwt ALOXYDE.
 

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Tips and Tricks: Briefly on photography

One of the phenomenons of digital era we are all going through now is that photography (meaning taking photos) became part of our daily lives. Well, for modelling community itself it's a tool. Same as glue or plastic scriber.  Want to get feedback on your in-progress or finished builds? Take a photo and share it on dedicated discussion forums!

Through years there's been dozens of articles committed to this topic published on various media. If you can, just grab them! There is lot of information from professional photographers included that will help you to set up your home photo studio.

My workbench. "Photo Atelier" is part of it. I'm documenting step-by-step progress on most of my builds.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

INBOX: Boeing 737-100 Eastern Express 1/144


Let's have a look at brand new Eastern Express offering of very first Boeing 737 version. It's in 1/144 airliner scale of course.