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What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 21st, 2013, 11:31 pm
by uavdb
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.
Re: What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 22nd, 2013, 2:01 am
by BlohmWolf
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
Re: What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 22nd, 2013, 9:39 am
by Ian
Re: What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 22nd, 2013, 11:41 am
by Zee28
Mobile modelling? Well, my I hand the stage over to Sir T, truly the most mobile of all modellers!
Zee
Re: What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 23rd, 2013, 9:44 am
by vacant
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.
Re: What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 23rd, 2013, 5:18 pm
by Stuart
Zee28 wrote:Mobile modelling? Well, my I hand the stage over to Sir T, truly the most mobile of all modellers!
Zee
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 mobile
Regards
Stuart
Re: What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 24th, 2013, 12:12 am
by uavdb
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.
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.
Re: What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 24th, 2013, 12:14 am
by uavdb
Sir T wrote:Zee28 wrote:Mobile modelling? Well, my I hand the stage over to Sir T, truly the most mobile of all modellers!
Zee
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 mobile
Regards
Stuart
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.
Re: What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 24th, 2013, 2:20 am
by SJPONeill
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...
Re: What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 25th, 2013, 1:54 am
by uavdb
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.
Re: What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 25th, 2013, 2:20 am
by Zee28
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!
Zee
Re: What does your travelling model building kit look like?
Posted: July 25th, 2013, 3:12 am
by SJPONeill
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.
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]
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...