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Refit lighting app

Time to revisit an old project that got abandoned because of a hard drive crash. I honest to goodness am going to …

Decal problems; sometimes too much knowledge is dangerous

I ran into a bad decal application while working on a long shelved Hasegawa P-51D 1/48th scale Mustang the other day, and …

MPC Space 1999 Eagle available soon

Good news, everyone, soon you’ll be able to buy a styrene Space 1999 Eagle model again. Round 2 Models will apparently resurrect …

A master modeler using the Neo for Iwata airbrush

[youtube http://youtu.be/cr-2JckWD2g]   Phil Flory uses and reviews the Neo for Iwata CN airbrush, the same airbrush I bought a while back. It’s …

Mini AT-ST Popsicle Stick Model

Mini AT-ST Popsicle Stick Model. This is just brilliant and pointless at the same time. It will be hard for me to …

The Dam Busters!

[youtube http://youtu.be/-miLoWZ68Dk] UPDATE: There are nice pictures of the new Lancaster tooling at Scale Model News. The news that Airfix is releasing a …

Chinese junk

Rocky Mountain Shipwrights

Because I don’t have enough hobbies, I went to a meeting today of the Rocky Mountain Shipwrights, which as the name suggests, …

Maximum Defiant – The Devil in the Details «

Maximum Defiant – The Devil in the Details «. Wow, if you want to see some glory shots of the USS Defiant, …

Paint mixer

Paint mixer, with two speeds

It’s just like a woman to use a vibrator to mix paints. Actually, this is my mother’s massager, which I inherited. I’ve …

Tamiya Handy Drill

Window tool

Cutting portholes in starships was always a tedious business, but after the arrival of the Enterprise D, it became a mind numbing …

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