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Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - Sumpter250 - 06-20-2014 ezdays Wrote:Just in case someone thinks I'm kidding, or that I gotta man up to working with small parts, here's a picture of some that I still have to assemble. [ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND] Those parts are just "a wee bit bigger" than the shackles and shackle pins I made, for the rigging on the 1/96 scale Pilot Schooner. 5X Optivisor, a self constructed bending jig, a couple of 4" needle nose pliers, and a pair of tweezers with, virtually, needle point tips. :o Oh I forgot the most important tool - - - - an extensive vocabulary of "swear words", expressed loudly! It doesn't do a thing for "model work", but it does help relieve the stress. Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - ezdays - 06-20-2014 Sumpter250 Wrote:ezdays Wrote:Just in case someone thinks I'm kidding, or that I gotta man up to working with small parts, here's a picture of some that I still have to assemble. [ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND] I would think that they should at least make these parts so that when they go flying off of your tweezers, you at least know which direction they went in. :o The thing is, that if you make the parts from scratch, you can at least make new ones, but when they give you four parts and you need every one of them, you're screwed when you lose or break one one. Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - ezdays - 06-22-2014 Next step is to add the pilasters. After that comes the roof supports and fascia... Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - Tyson Rayles - 06-22-2014 Hang in there Don, it's almost done! Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - eightyeightfan1 - 06-23-2014 Nice start. Looks like its missing a couple of small detail parts though. Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - Steamtrains - 06-23-2014 "when you get to my age, you're lucky you can see the part on the sprue to cut if off, never mind find where it went when you do cut it." Don (ezdays) Day Been there...Done that... Now I place a strip of masking tape across the pieces to be cut off to keep them from flying into unknown dimensions... Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - ezdays - 06-23-2014 Steamtrains Wrote:Been there...Done that... My biggest problem is that they somehow sprout wings when they get picked up with tweezers...SPROINGGGGGG.... away they go. Somewhere behind my bench should be a pile of small plastic parts and springs about a foot deep. Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - ezdays - 06-23-2014 Giant step, got the freight depot walls in place, no teeny-tiny parts to deal with... Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - Sumpter250 - 06-23-2014 ezdays Wrote:I would think that they should at least make these parts so that when they go flying off of your tweezers, you at least know which direction they went in. :oAhhhhhhh, that tiny CLICK !!!! that signals the, spitting out, of a tiny part from the "beak" of a pair of tweezers. AKA, "The model builder's nightmare" I know that feeling all too well.....of the thousands lost in the carpet, you would think at least one would be found. not yet, anyway. Probably will find them all on the day I no longer need any. Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - ezdays - 06-23-2014 Sumpter250 Wrote: Ahhhhhhh, that tiny CLICK !!!! that signals the, spitting out, of a tiny part from the "beak" of a pair of tweezers. AKA, "The model builder's nightmare" GPS, yes, that's the answer. Each part should be imbedded with a coded GPS chip and a signal locator should be part of every kit that is programmed for those particular parts. I'd hate to use the GPS locator from one kit only to find parts that I lost from another kit months ago.. . Either that, or they design each part so that it can be held firmly with tweezers without going.... TWANGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. These innovations should not add any cost to the kit either... Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - AF350 - 06-24-2014 Coupler springs are the worst on kadee couplers as far as locating those that spring lose. Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - Steamtrains - 06-24-2014 AF350 Wrote:Coupler springs are the worst on kadee couplers as far as locating those that spring lose. I don't even try looking for them...They sell packages of springs just for that purpose... Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - ezdays - 06-26-2014 A bit more progress. Lighting panels are installed, and the roofs and rain spouts are now in place. There is still a lot of touchup and cleanup to do, as well as some detailing, but I think just about everything included in the kit is now in place. (Well, except for those eansie, winsie, tynsie roof support brackets, and I can add them later if I ever find all the parts ) Lighting panels in place: Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - Tyson Rayles - 06-26-2014 Re: Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge - Ralph - 06-26-2014 NIIIIIICE!!!!!!!! looks great! I'm impressed that you lighted it too. |