08-18-2024, 05:31 PM
Yeah, Amanda, I'm pretty convinced that I made a good investment in getting the supplies necessary to build these kits - an Olfa knife, a 6" steel ruler, a supply of cardstock, some gap-filling cyanoacrylate glue, some gray markers, and an inkjet printer. The way decent plastic model kits have inflated, I'm doubly convinced. The third really good reason to go toward these kits is the almost unlimited ability to kitbash - illustrated by my Duplan Silk Mill warehouse or my coal breaker.
Do these kits take patience? Yes, but I would also say that building a good plastic or lasercut wood model takes meticulous precision as well to put it together well. And just like other models, the more you do, the better you get. I'll continue to try to show the options and benefits of these kits if my hands and eyes allow it.
Coming into the home stretch of the challenge, and other than finishing up the build of the Duplan Silk Mill, my layout addition is not going to make it to the finish line. I completely underestimated my ambitions for this space - I didn't think I was going to be able to fit all that much in the available area, but that supposition was wrong. I believe I have room for another manufacturing complex - I have a couple of ideas I'm kicking around, and I'm still looking forward to building in some terrain changes and some tricks of the eye.
Challenges are supposed to be just that - and I think it's good to be ambitious, especially with a hobby. Sometime before the stroke of midnight on August 31 I'll present the unfinished work in progress.
Do these kits take patience? Yes, but I would also say that building a good plastic or lasercut wood model takes meticulous precision as well to put it together well. And just like other models, the more you do, the better you get. I'll continue to try to show the options and benefits of these kits if my hands and eyes allow it.
Coming into the home stretch of the challenge, and other than finishing up the build of the Duplan Silk Mill, my layout addition is not going to make it to the finish line. I completely underestimated my ambitions for this space - I didn't think I was going to be able to fit all that much in the available area, but that supposition was wrong. I believe I have room for another manufacturing complex - I have a couple of ideas I'm kicking around, and I'm still looking forward to building in some terrain changes and some tricks of the eye.
Challenges are supposed to be just that - and I think it's good to be ambitious, especially with a hobby. Sometime before the stroke of midnight on August 31 I'll present the unfinished work in progress.
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