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                        What is the hardest?

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                        Jim Barton
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        Posted by Jim Barton on Saturday, June 11, 2005 11:52 PM
                        The hardest part of the model I'm building now, the tornado chase vehicle, is scratchbuilding all the stuff inside like computer equipment, weather scanners, ham and CB radios and a desk for the computer. The computer equipment (which included a monitor, modem, mouse and keyboard) was aftermarket from Scale Equipment Limited (I think that's the name) but it needed a lot of detailing, including the various cords and stuff, which had to be scratchbuilt. That's a lot of the reason it's taking so long for me to finish the dang thing--all those fiddly little bits and pieces that have to be scratchbuilt!

                        "Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"

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                        peglegrc
                        • Member since
                          January 2005
                        • From: Tehachapi, Ca.
                        Posted by peglegrc on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:42 PM
                        I saw a trick my neighbor used on his Dragon Tiger king track's, he places the track pieces on two 1" wide piece's of masking tape, about 18" long or so, he tapes the two pieces to his work table with a couple more pieces of the tape. The sticky part isnt all that sticky, so he lays out his track on the tape, places all the parts into place, applies a small drop of glue with a 6" piece of really thin wire to the links What do you think? Would that work for you guy's too?... How do you do your Tracks?....C):-)] "RC"
                        PeglegRC "The Meaning of life??? How the Heck should I know? Try Google." "Can You Expand your report about Employee Morale?..I'm Afraid 'Bite Me' doesn't Quite cover it"... "Please excuse any misspelled word's!
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                        jinithith2
                        • Member since
                          January 2005
                        • From: returning to the FSM forum after a hiatus
                        Posted by jinithith2 on Monday, May 23, 2005 9:54 PM
                        my trumpeter ferdinand in braille.
                        the locating pins for the halves of one side of the tank killer is off, so the teeth zigzag, preventing any kind of indy tracks installation whatsoever.
                        I'm just gonna have to do a dio or a vignette with it's tracks busted.
                        didn't reallize they were busted until I actually had to put it on the tanks itself
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 23, 2005 9:37 PM
                        working with photo-etch in 1:700 scale with poor eyesight and hands shaking from a combination of nerves and caffeine! Banged Head [banghead]

                        Egh, I'm only 21 and I'm already having a hard time with the small parts on 1/72 kits! Disapprove [V]
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 6:38 PM
                        Individual tracks-period!

                        Dan
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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Monday, May 16, 2005 7:53 PM
                        hmmm... I'd have to say small parts in small corners of a build. I was building a Schnellboot and suddenly I was having to glue a hand rung into a tight corner with an overhand... my hands are too big and my wrist not flexible... Disapprove [V] I will reverse engineer those kind of things from now on... dry fit the entire kit if I have to and find away around those...
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        lerxst1031
                        • Member since
                          September 2004
                        • From: Anchorage, Alaska
                        Posted by lerxst1031 on Monday, May 16, 2005 11:49 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by trowlfazz

                        Anything PE-which I believe stands for "pretty exhasperating" (SP?).
                        Dan


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                        Fred
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 16, 2005 7:02 AM
                        Indy tracks, and clear parts on the inside of airplanes.
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, May 14, 2005 8:19 AM
                        Whistling [:-^].........i 'spose the overall discipline of sticking to what i've planned to accomplish per build............
                        specifically ??????..........the finite exactitude of masking canopies and having 'em not look like they've been masked.........

                        i can't imagine indy track links...........yet
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                        fightnjoe
                        • Member since
                          September 2011
                        Posted by fightnjoe on Friday, May 13, 2005 11:43 PM
                        the hardest thing for me is when i choose to do an indepth project, to actually start the project. and to do it the way i want instead of "close enough".



                        joe

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 13, 2005 11:29 PM
                        For me, it would probably have to be the cutting/cleaning of such fine and brittle plastic pieces as armor MG`s.
                        They always break on me and then I have to scratch from brass rod.
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                        zokissima
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
                        Posted by zokissima on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 1:35 PM
                        Indy track links, or the ever present bad fit of lower to upper hulls of some manufacturers.
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                        echolmberg
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Green Bay, WI USA
                        Posted by echolmberg on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:51 PM
                        Digger, just like you said, it's the smaller parts that really get to me. For example, I just finished a Hasegawa P-51. Okay maybe it's really only 99.99% done because I didn't add the landing light in the gear bay...and I didn't add the itsy bitsy rear radiator waste gate control rod which no one is going to see anyway unless they're looking at it from behind and below. It's those little fiddly parts that are the hardest for me to add because I so badly want to say that I'm done with the build! Ha-ha-ha!

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                        Jeff Herne
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        Posted by Jeff Herne on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:29 PM
                        Bud, use white glue for canopies...works like a charm.

                        IronBrigade, depending on what you use for rigging, I've found that surgical silk works the best. I've found the key to rigging is to cut a length of line far more than you need, anchor it on one end, let it dry, then pull it tight, attach with CA and a drop of kicker. The key is getting a solid anchor point first.

                        Jeff
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 2:49 PM
                        i only build ships and a few planes, but the rigging on ships can get a little heated..i've had parts break off when i was doing the rigging, or i would forget to add a little dab of glue and the rigging would come undone...its not fun at all.
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 2:34 PM
                        Dragon tracks, then those small little parts that are so hard to get in the right place and just seem to run away some times
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                        bud156
                        • Member since
                          May 2003
                        • From: La Crosse, WI
                        Posted by bud156 on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 2:29 PM
                        I've never done armor, but I have a heck of a time getting clear parts on my cars. I always end up getting glue all over them. I'm gonna start using different glue when I model now. I've been using the testors stuff in the orange. It jsut doesnt cut it. It seems there are a lot more options and they seem to work better, from what I've heard.
                        Mike
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:36 AM
                        I would have to agree with the dragon indy links. Then I would have to say the small details and then the PE stuff.
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 25, 2005 4:29 PM
                        Anything PE-which I believe stands for "pretty exhasperating" (SP?).
                        Dan
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                        Jeff Herne
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        Posted by Jeff Herne on Monday, April 25, 2005 4:11 PM
                        Dragon M26 tracks, with the individual guide teeth, and the connecting plates...two put two links together you need 6 parts....ugh.

                        J
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 25, 2005 4:08 PM
                        i would agree with the individual track links. im working on a dragon M1A1 right now and its taking me forever to glue those on right
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                        kaleu
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Racing capital of the world- Indy
                        Posted by kaleu on Monday, April 25, 2005 12:36 PM
                        Dragon's indy links on some of their kits and putting together the 3 piece lower hulls from eastern european companies (skif, eastern express, Zvezda etc).
                        Erik "Don't fruit the beer." Newest model buys: More than I care to think about. It's time for a support group.
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 25, 2005 12:27 PM
                        the Dragon Firefly tracks
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                        diggeraone
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Ozarks of Arkansas
                        What is the hardest?
                        Posted by diggeraone on Monday, April 25, 2005 12:06 PM
                        Whats the hardest thing or putting together that you have found on a kit overall.As for me it is some of the small parts or added detail that gets the best of me.Digger
                        Put all your trust in the Lord,do not put confidence in man.PSALM 118:8 We are in the buisness to do the impossible..G.S.Patton
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