iModeler How-to
Tips and solutions to improve your modelling techniques.
How-to: Safety belts for aircraft from scratch
A nifty video tutorial by Tom Grigat on making detailed seat belts (in 1/72 scale!). All you need is 0.1mm electrical wire, baking paper for the belts and a few tools, including a home-made buckle bender ๐
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Borrowing Your Spouse's Stuff: Using the Silhouette Cameo
I am sure itโs no secret that there is a great deal of overlap in the tools and techniques used by various hobbies. For instance, scenery and weathering techniques and tools designed for model railroading work equally well for our [...]
Video: Fleet Fawn Trainer Engine run 25/08/2018
A beautifully restored Fleet Fawn trainer. Operating with a Kinner B-5 five-cylinder radial piston engine. They said that this little kite is in taxiable condition. But it looked so good, it looked ready to fly.
Video: Bristol Hercules Engine run 25/08/2018
This is a restored Bristol Hercules Engine from a Halifax bomber. They stated before the run that they are working on restoring 3 more of these to working condition. This one engine made more noise then all 4 of the Merlins on the [...]
Paints and glues
Hi all. Got questions for you all. I have been modeling since 2002. Never used an airbrush on my models; Although, I have tested one out at a local club. I am still using cans. I have purchased a reasonable cheap AB, to test out. I have [...]
How to pack a model.
I'm off to the IPMS nationals tomorrow and I'm taking the Horton with me. Ithought long and hard about whether I should ship it next day or take it with me as carry-on. The questions I asked myself were- 1, do I ship it and have it get [...]
