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Why does it seem like there's the universal assumption that everybody has a fully equipped machine shop in their house?

A spoon test will only indicate if the paint is compatible with the spoon. The styrene used to make plastic spoons is formulated differently than what is used in model kit production. Spray the paint on pieces of the parts tree to get an accurate idea as to how the kit plastic would react.

"Ally" is Brit/Oz/Kiwi shorthand for aluminum (a-LOO-mi-ni-um), guv.

I did point that out.

The K&S Engineering .016" brass I use has a hard temper and it can be easily (fairly) using a new #11 blade. I don't know about the commercial paper cutter. First of all, even the smaller models take up a good deal of bench space. Secondly, the are fairly expensive ($100+), which is a lot of mazuma for something which would see limited use. Okay, it might come in handy slicing cold cuts.

The one problem with using rotary tools with cut off wheels is that, due to the mandrel length, you're only able to make perpendicular cuts up to a maximum of 2" from the outer edge of a metal sheet. In order to cut parts with larger widths, you'll have to position the cut off wheel at an angle to the piece. This results in a beveled edge at the cut which can be a PITA to flatten evenly. Plus, it's difficult to maintain the cut off wheel in a straight line while cutting the sheet. If the bed and ramps are just composed of straight line cuts, you can draw the patterns on the smooth side. Place a straightedge on the lines then slowly and carefully score the lines with a scribing tool or, if you don't have one, with the backside of a #11 blade. The brass is soft and thin enough to allow you to scribe completely through the sheet. When you reach a point when the scribe line is almost through, you can bend the section until it snaps off. Use a file to remove any burrs and to smooth out the edges. I use this method when cutting parts from 0.016 brass sheet.

A couple whacks with a ball peen hammer on the door edge would even things out.

That's what I was referring to.

The door needs some work.

Bomber Seats (2) Set #1 1/25 Bomber Seats (2) Set #2, 1/25

Italeri 223/654 is a totally different kit. It's a straight Italeri tooling.

I once ran out of the regular chrome and had a sheet of the matt foil laying around. I put some Novus 2 on a piece of an old tee shirt and carefully polished the sheet until it was shiny. Then, I buffed it out with another piece of tee shirt. I applied it and burnished it with a Q-Tip. Couldn't tell the difference.

In my area, it's called "Not Available - Out Of Stock".

Need to go somewhere? You're a NY'er by default being from Joisey. Killing time is in your DNA, man. Take a walk around the neighborhood park, talk to the crazy guy playing a tune on the curbstone with his drumsticks, hit a gin mill for a couple of suds or a coffee shop and have a greaseburger deluxe, hang out with the giant cannibal pig outside the Italian pork store, anything but Hobby Lobby ferchrissakes! Look, I'm as much a model nut as the next guy here; but, I'm not going to keep going back to the same lameass store to stare at the same lameass kits I saw six months before. As my good friend Al Einstein would say as he was buying his weekly fix of lottery tickets, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

Please explain to this bum from Brooklyn what's the seemingly irresistible need to look for model kits in this joint. Hobby Lobby is a "hobby shop" in the most general definition of the term. It's an arts & crafts store, just like Michaels. They sell some model kits and supplies, similar to how stationery stores and local drug stores from years ago might have had a back shelf with a couple of kits, glue and some paints. Their main business is DIY craft items and notions. If the main factor for shopping there is the 40% off coupons/sales, that really isn't much of an incentive because, according to everyone's griping, the selection sucks and buying something just to get that discount is being penny-wise but pound-foolish since it seems some buy the same kits ad nauseam. Sure, there are almost no real local hobby shops left to waste an afternoon in anymore; however, online shops offer a much larger variety of modeling products than you could ever find in Hobby Lobby.

Polish it. Buff it with a soft cloth and it will look like regular BMF.

If that's the case, it's not worth reading.

0.12" (3mm)-0.63" (16mm).

Table Top Match Racer

Why don't you just get an Excel Dual Strip Cutter? It doesn't look like you're getting any uniformity in width using that contraption.

Google the term. There are plenty available for different needs.

I use it for "WALKWAY" stripes other miscellany on aircraft. As indicated on the website, it's available in various widths. I've tested it on car bodies and it allows for a good amount of curvature. Plus, being that the edges are lacquer coated, there isn't any color bleed. Nice, sharp separation.

Atlantis announced that the entire initial production run is sold out.

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Nah, looked it up.