A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
I find the retractable scalpel really useful. I might have substituted a pin drill for the file. But it is the file I find most interesting. So often we buy small Swizz files of various types because they are aimed at modellers. But that is why we all used to make a mess of Airfix kits with tube cement! In reality, the result is we spend ages filing something that could have been done in just a few strokes, and half the time the file is too clogged to be useful anyway.
I very rarely use a needle file nowadays, I seem to have graviated to 6-inch files. Not a deliberate move either, although I do remember being told bigger files were betterin my early modelling days.
4 comments:
Excellent video. Need more of these please.
Interesting selection, and works well in video too!
I find the retractable scalpel really useful. I might have substituted a pin drill for the file. But it is the file I find most interesting. So often we buy small Swizz files of various types because they are aimed at modellers. But that is why we all used to make a mess of Airfix kits with tube cement! In reality, the result is we spend ages filing something that could have been done in just a few strokes, and half the time the file is too clogged to be useful anyway.
I very rarely use a needle file nowadays, I seem to have graviated to 6-inch files. Not a deliberate move either, although I do remember being told bigger files were betterin my early modelling days.
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