Dry Run

[Guest]

I'll be following this too as my aircraft building technique has hardly improved since I was slapping Airfix kits together in my youth :goodidea:

[Gern]

I'll be watching as well 'cos its always nice to watch the experts at work - thanks for giving us the opportunity Roman.

Only problem with watching of course is that while you're doing it, you're not actually building and practising the techniques for yourself! I think the reason I'm so slow is I do too much watching. Then I see how well others do and get frustrated when my kits don't come out as well as I'd like!

Some day though - soon I hope - all the bits I've learned from sites like this and all my practice will come together and I'll be making models to be proud of. Meantime I'm having a whale of a time and enjoying myself, so that's a good enough reward for now.

Gern

[Guest]

I like that Dave. I could not mirror better my attitude.

It is a fascinating pastime (sorry full time). When I started I thought glue & paint that is it.

How wrong those play a useful part but when I consider the amount of time I spend finding & practising a technique, finding how others do it, research both the colour & what colour a part would have been glue & paint take a back seat.

On this subject I was amazed when building my Mosquito to find that on some aspects, think it was Mossie (sorry probably got spelling wrong) who showed the construction of the same model, how we differed in approach. His undercart construction procedure was far superior to mine ( he did not follow as I did slavishly the printed instructions). Couple of other smaller items thought mine was better, just. Lateral thinking & I missed out on this main one but a good lesson.

Spent time as an exhibitor yesterday (6 hours of boredom) at a wedding fayre. Mentioned to another exhibitor who I knew well & he smirked when I mentioned that I constructed aircraft models. As you have said Dave it is the reward you get & this chap had no idea of the returns in so many ways.

Laurie

[stona]

Mentioned to another exhibitor who I knew well & he smirked when I mentioned that I constructed aircraft models. Laurie

You soon get used to that reaction.

Sometimes it works the other way.

I had a chap around,who I didn't know,to measure up and do some drawings for a loft conversion. He saw a couple of my models and that was it! It turns out that he is a competition winning automobile modeller,well known for his trucks. We had great fun discussing modelling and later when it turned out that what we wanted doing wasn't possible due to the latest building regulations and that therefore the plans weren't going to be needed,he refused to charge me for the visit. Top bloke and a great modeller.

Cheers

Steve