Lee, nice job on the battleship. One of my many other hobbies is building scale submarines.
Steve, Lady and Tex
Originally Posted by TexSpecial:
Lee, nice job on the battleship. One of my many other hobbies is building scale submarines.
Steve, Lady and Tex
Got a Moebius Skipjack??? Waiting on my to get here!!!
Nice, I have a few "to do" kits as well...still want a 1/72 flower class too.
...to do...
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Mine arrived a couple of hours ago. This is one of those things that you simply wonder how you ever did without once you've used it for even an hour. As I had hoped, it is easy to use drafting instruments like that shown to help position plastic at exact angles, etc. I am already using it on a rather incricate project- scratch building the superstructure for a 1:350 model of the USS Cleveland (CL-55 -1941). It's fantastic.
It came with an extra "cutter" (the small orange plastic thing you slide to make the cut has a tiny knife blade sticking out the bottom of it). I expect this is going to quickly wear out cutting plastic rather than paper, particularly given I will use it so much now. But it seems like it will be easy to modify a worn cutter one to accept and hold a #11 X-Acto blade which would permanently solve the "gets dull fast" issue.
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Lee, thanks for the review... mine is due to be delivered on Monday!
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
This is one of those things that you simply wonder how you ever did without once you've used it for even an hour. As I had hoped, it is easy to use drafting instruments like that shown to help position plastic at exact angles, etc. I am already using it on a rather incricate project- scratch building the superstructure for a 1:350 model of the USS Cleveland (CL-55 -1941). It's fantastic.
It came with an extra "cutter" (the small orange plastic thing you slide to make the cut has a tiny knife blade sticking out the bottom of it). I expect this is going to quickly wear out cutting plastic rather than paper, particularly given I will use it so much now. But it seems like it will be easy to modify a worn cutter one to accept and hold a #11 X-Acto blade which would permanently solve the "gets dull fast" issue.
This is why I always try and tell folks to pick one up. And now you have added the angle instruments which I had not thought of.....another great reason for this forum.
I have found that after a few years of good use I have only gone through a few 'blades'. They last longer on plastic as paper seems to dull them faster than the light scribe plastic needs. Happy you guys are liking this!!!
Here's mine....fairly cheap eons ago thru hobby lobby via their 40% coupon....used for nothing but sheet cutting and still on the origonal blade after 3-4 years. I don't use it to cut all the way thru - just score and snap.
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Originally Posted by Burlington Route:
Here's mine....fairly cheap eons ago thru hobby lobby via their 40% coupon....used for nothing but sheet cutting and still on the origonal blade after 3-4 years. I don't use it to cut all the way thru - just score and snap.
Little scary how much of the same things we both have!!!!
PS did you get the e-mail I sent to your post addy???
Bob,
Nice job on that building. It looks great on the platform. Evergreen styrene is great stuff.
Alan Graziano
Originally Posted by AMCDave:
Originally Posted by Burlington Route:
Here's mine....fairly cheap eons ago thru hobby lobby via their 40% coupon....used for nothing but sheet cutting and still on the origonal blade after 3-4 years. I don't use it to cut all the way thru - just score and snap.
Little scary how much of the same things we both have!!!!
PS did you get the e-mail I sent to your post addy???
yes, but the wife has been having issues on and off the last few days, and in about 5min we're heading back to the hospital to see her again today...fun, fun, fun....wish they could just figure out what the cause of the issue is!
Give me a couple of days or so to sort out an image and size and we'll go from there...thanks for the offer!
I hope things improve for you and yours....
