What does your travelling model building kit look like?
What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Here's mine. My wife bought these stackable containers with secure snaps that lock for a spill free package for me to load up my junk when we go camping.
The pics here show the way I pack it up with the tools, glues, sanding implements and painting supplies. There is another bottom part that I can put about 6 of the small Testors rattle cans of paint in if I anticipate needing to spray. There's lots of room for bottled paints for extended trips.
Anyway, I just thought I'd show what I take. This is what I use for short trips.
The pics here show the way I pack it up with the tools, glues, sanding implements and painting supplies. There is another bottom part that I can put about 6 of the small Testors rattle cans of paint in if I anticipate needing to spray. There's lots of room for bottled paints for extended trips.
Anyway, I just thought I'd show what I take. This is what I use for short trips.
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I don't have a travelling model building kit.
As I never have to travel! I can stay at my workbench as much as I want
As I never have to travel! I can stay at my workbench as much as I want
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I'm a mostly full-time modeller put a part-time poster....
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Mobile modelling? Well, my I hand the stage over to Sir T, truly the most mobile of all modellers!
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If that's what you use for short trips, what do you take for long trips? As it is, it looks as if the various boxes would fit neatly inside a kitchen sink.
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That'd be me then - 90% of my modelling is done at lunch time in the back of my i10 - here's my kit, all mobileZee28 wrote:Mobile modelling? Well, my I hand the stage over to Sir T, truly the most mobile of all modellers!
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For longer trips I use a second bottom part which is as deep as the one shown with the paints in it. That way I can pack more paints...but on long trips I also bring one of my bass guitars to practice with for when I dont feel like modelling.vacant wrote:If that's what you use for short trips, what do you take for long trips? As it is, it looks as if the various boxes would fit neatly inside a kitchen sink.
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Sir T you are the king of mobile modelling but you have to be since you dont have a regular space at home as I recall. I really like your setup, by the way.Sir T wrote:That'd be me then - 90% of my modelling is done at lunch time in the back of my i10 - here's my kit, all mobileZee28 wrote:Mobile modelling? Well, my I hand the stage over to Sir T, truly the most mobile of all modellers!
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I normally don't have time to model when I am travelling but on the rare occasions that I do - or think that I might - I usually take paper models and work on simple tasks like cutting and laminating smaller parts. The only tools I need for this are a sharp knife withe fresh blade, a cutting mat, a straight edge (normally on about 15cm long), an old credit card for spreading glue over parts to be laminated, and a cloth that I can dampen to wipe away any surplus glue...and some glue, either spray glue or the UHU stringy stuff...
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SJPONeill wrote:I normally don't have time to model when I am travelling but on the rare occasions that I do - or think that I might - I usually take paper models and work on simple tasks like cutting and laminating smaller parts. The only tools I need for this are a sharp knife withe fresh blade, a cutting mat, a straight edge (normally on about 15cm long), an old credit card for spreading glue over parts to be laminated, and a cloth that I can dampen to wipe away any surplus glue...and some glue, either spray glue or the UHU stringy stuff...
I like the excellent looking paper models that are available, especially the 1/33rd scale planes which I see as micro scale r/c subjects...maybe one day I'll try it!
You guys who build them have more patience than I do.
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I admire you all, I simply couldn't do it. If I wasn't surrounded by my modelling bench paraphernalia (of which there is TONS) then I'd feel lost. To move all my stuff would take a truck!
I'm very much a 'Comfort Zone' sort of fella, take me out of my man-cave and I get twitchy and nervous... Quick, get me home!
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I'm very much a 'Comfort Zone' sort of fella, take me out of my man-cave and I get twitchy and nervous... Quick, get me home!
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Of course the beauty of paper models is that you can, with not much extra effort enlarge to whatever scale you like so they don't necessarily have to be 'micro'...there is a build at papermodelers at the moment enlarging a PO-2 from 1/33 to 1/16 which give you an idea of what is involved...[http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/avia ... rsion.html]uavdb wrote:I like the excellent looking paper models that are available, especially the 1/33rd scale planes which I see as micro scale r/c subjects...maybe one day I'll try it!
You guys who build them have more patience than I do.
As for patience, I am not really a patient modeller in any medium even if my builds do take forever or longer; I found the biggest difference between plastic and paper models was that both require different techniques - but also that you can gain a lot by crosspollinating techniques form one tother...
When I get my act together and achieve some stability in the job market, I'll reinvigorate the paper modelling discussion here...
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