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Offline Dеnis

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Re: Scale modeling from scratch.
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2012, 12:06:55 PM »
Amazing models indeed, though I'm wondering why people prefer styrene sheets over, say, paper sheets of same size, color & thickness?
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Re: Scale modeling from scratch.
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2012, 04:29:01 PM »
Hello, Denis,

Simply because styrene provides some advantages wich paper hasn't: It's more stable, gets smoth edges, can be filled and sanded and colored without fluting  :)

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Re: Scale modeling from scratch.
« Reply #17 on: September 14, 2012, 07:33:25 PM »
I made a model of `H.M.S.Eskimo`, using old tin cans + solder. I had the original warship
underneath me at the time, as I was a crane driver in a dockyard.With an old pair of snips,
I would spend every `spare` minute while on day shift then later on night shift. I turned    out to be 4ft 6in long. I dont have now  it as I could not get it out of the dockyard.
  I also make a model of the Short Bros.`Maia and Mercury` also out of tin cans. 16in x 16in.
The first two `piggyback` seaplanes that delivered mail from England to America in 1938`s.
No photo`s unfortunatly.

 

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