robdebie

Here's my scratchbuilt 1/10 scale chassis of a Locost , a Lotus 7 clone to be built from a book. More here: https://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/models/locost.htm Rob

Ah.. Never considered that.. The basic idea of doing presentations at our club meetings is 1. to learn from each other and 2. to make the meetings more interesting. If we publish the presentations, goal #2 is lost. Plus, if we would record the presentations, I'm sure we'll have a even more difficult time finding presentors. It's pretty horrible for an amateur speaker to see yourself back on video 🙂 Plus all the extra work with recording and editing.. I think I found enough arguments to say no to the idea 🙂 Rob

Yes, I admit that it takes an effort to learn it. I my case, way back, I struggled with the tutorials included in CorelDraw 9. But then I got a book (how old fashioned) and everything became easy! The biggest difference was mostly that the book had pictures of the icons to use, whereas the tutorial merely mentioned the icon's name, at a point where I knew nothing, so I could not find those icons. I'm not saying you need a book, but you do need to find a tutorial that fits you. By coincidence I'm preparing a club presentation for next month, showing a few basic operations in CorelDraw, drawing a few things 'live' using a beamer. My intention is to have the club members judge for themselves whether they could it too. Rob

Vector graphics are the way to go, not a shred of a doubt in my mind about that. I use CorelDraw, any old version will do. Here's one example, where I used a set of scaled drawings as my 'sketching board'. The next step was trying a b&w print on the model itself, followed by a few corrections to decal sizes. Third and last step so far: the printed set, outsourced to SpotModel in Spain. Rob

There are several European custom decal makers that have massive catalogs. I know two, there are probably many more: https://decals.nl/ https://decalprint.de/ Rob

Thanks for showing, I had never seen this kit built. Look great! Rob

Bump after four months.. Still looking! Rob

Make that McDonnell-Douglas, instead of Lockheed. Rob

Barry: one more route is making website reports of your builds, and that's what I do. I often switch from model to model, and it's great to read back your own report to restart a project. Here's one example, of the Nunu 1/24 Kremer Porsche 935 K3. It's extensive because I did a lot of shape corrections. https://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/models/kremer-k3.htm I'm using old-fashioned basic HTML for the website coding, so that's not much work. The photo shooting is considerable extra work, but generally I like the shots, so that's a reward in itself. Plus they are often useful in forum threads. Rob

Watch this video, you'll be impressed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCKZ_fo4eW0 I bought a Paasche H after seeing this, and it gives me identical results. Here are some tests with all enamel brands that I had in stock. No polishing, no clear coat, one paint session. Rob

Did you leave the lids off for the outgassing? If so, the resin absorbed moisture, and foamed because of that moisture during the cure. I try to limit my resin's exposure to air / moisture as much as possible, but with every opening you let in fresh air with new moisture. When I reach the bottom of the bottles, they have had maximum exposure, and the mixed resin will foam, if not put in a vacuum. Fresh casting resin should not have any of these problems though. Rob

Best Balsa has a great decal set: https://www.bestbalsakits.com/tamiya/tamiya-detail.asp?kitnumber=3239 Rob

I use the 7-minute Smooth-Cast 305 (with some black dye), and I'm happy with its material properties after curing. I cast some fragile parts, like the jet nozzles right from center and the bomb fins in the center, and never had failures. On the other side, since the cure is slow, the resin doesn't heat up, and a hot cure of a fast resin might give better material properties. The drawback of a hot cure is that you'll have more shrinkage. Rob

I'm looking for the DVD-ROM 'Scale Auto Enthusiast - The First 35 Years'. In return I can do custom decals, or parts casting, or 3D part design and printing, or maybe something else. More on decals and casting can be seen on my website: https://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/models/customdecals.htm https://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/models/casting.htm There are eleven pages about 3D CAD and printing projects on the main modeling page: https://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/models.htm I joined this forum in 2016., and made 379 posts so far. Rob de Bie Delft, The Netherlands

Building on Peteski's comments, maybe you can scrape the resin parts, to release the original smell. Rob