Tag Archives: Scratchbuilt

Something New from Something Else – a Kit Mash-Up Adventure
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Posted on February 12, 2018 by

I have to say I really have been enjoying our club’s annual Build Challenges as they indeed challenge me to get something “done” by giving me a deadline.  Admittedly, I have only been ready once out out of the past … Full Article→

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2017 Club Challenge: 3-kit ‘Mash-Up’ or Channeling Your Inner Frankenstein
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Posted on February 11, 2018 by

The club’s annual build Challenge theme for 2017 was to create a ‘mash-up’ using the parts from three different kits (and for extra spice, from different genres such as plane-ship-tank…)  The goal was to use only the parts provided by the … Full Article→

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What is it? A Bird, A Plane… No, the 2016 Club Build Challenge
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Posted on November 26, 2016 by

The latest club model build challenge was completed at the November meeting with five entries on display.  Originally scheduled for October, the low meeting attendance made pushing the Challenge to the next meeting a reasonable move for those present. As … Full Article→

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Kit Smash! or “Making a mountain from a mole hill” – Pt. 2
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Posted on November 17, 2014 by

Tail Surfaces:  After cutting apart the P-38 kit’s tail booms, I was left with four vertical tail surface halves, each with good sized gaps to be filled, both from the opening for the horizontal tail and from the trimmed boom … Full Article→

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Kit Smash! or “Making a mountain from a mole hill” – Pt. 1
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Posted on October 24, 2014 by

Challenge: Turn a 1/48 scale P-38 Lightning into an experimental WWII Japanese fighter plane. For the November 2014 Club Theme Challenge, we decided to “compete” using any scale or make of P-38 kit, built to any result (in other words, … Full Article→

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Vacuform Aircraft Modeling – Part 4
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Posted on February 26, 2014 by

Basic Techniques (Con’t) My basic method of removing parts from the ‘backing sheet’ is outlined below.  However, there are actually some things you want to do prior to removing the parts, if you follow best practices.  These would include: Washing … Full Article→

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Vacuform Aircraft Modeling – Part 3
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Posted on December 15, 2013 by

Basic Techniques Don’s Model Works, home of the late Don Bennett’s vacuform kit outlet (now taken over by his son Chuck) has an excellent writeup of the method similar to the one I use in removing and cleaning up vac … Full Article→

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Vacuform Aircraft Modeling – Part 2
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Posted on July 31, 2012 by

What is a Vac kit – really? In the context of this series, a ‘vac’ kit is where the primary components are manufactured using a vacuum molding process.  Instead of parts formed from the injection of ‘molten’ polystyrene plastic under … Full Article→

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Vacuform Aircraft Modeling – Part 1
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Posted on June 14, 2012 by

Part 1 – Personal View As a child, I thought of a ‘model kit’ as a box of injection molded plastic parts attached to molding ‘runners’ or ‘trees’ (commonly called ‘sprue’), molded in a ‘color’ to match the desired paint … Full Article→

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Brass Railing Replacements for the Revell 1:72 Type-7 Model Kit
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Posted on June 8, 2012 by

A Report to the Cabal: Here’s a brief article on how to use small gauge brass rod/wire and a purpose built assembly jig to form railing elements unique to this little submarine model.  For those of you wishing to subject … Full Article→

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