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| Subject: | Re: Superdetailing |  |
| Date: | Apr 25, 2002 |
| From: | Paul Roberts | |
Dave L. wrote:
>Hi guys. I am curious, how many of you superdetail your models without using
>aftermarket sets? What i mean by this is, how many of you add detail to your
>mdoels with sheet styrene and other stuff? I am just curious where you
>learned how to do this? Are there any good books out there on how to
>superdetail? Any good website articles? Most of the stuff i see just says
>things like,"I moved the position of the crew hatch over 2mm" but they never
>tell you exactly how they did it, how they cut the pieces, how they put it
>back together so it looked like it was there originally. So many articles
>just take for granted that the reader knows how to do most of this stuff
>already. I would love to know how to do the things i see on this website and
>others but i just dont know where to start. What kind of tools do i need? Do
>you measure everything out or do you make your different componets so just
>so they look right? I am just curious where to start. Should i buy some
>aftermarket conversion sets and give those a try? Would that be a good
>place to start? The reason this all comes up is this: I was looking through
>the old R&J Enterprises catelog i have and was loving all the diiferent
>conversions they list, the Sherman with the chain mine clearing device, the
>bergepanther and tiger conversions and i am just frustrated. I do not know
>where to begin. Any suggestions? Thaks for listening to my rant guys!
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> Dave Lesko
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Well, you've certainly got the knack for opening cans of worms! =:-)
A lot of my detail work is made from scratch, although I do use
aftermarket hinges and chains and the like. I don't have anything
against commercial sets (God knows I own enough of them), but I find I
like making them myself.
As to where I started scratchbuilding stuff, I started modelling when
there weren't any conversion sets. Nada. The first styrene plastic I had
to work with was the vac-formed surround around a Valentine's day
chocolate heart. I had bits of that in my spares box for years. If I
wanted to do anything different, I had to do it all myself.
You get good at something by doing it. If you have no idea how to do
something, make it up as you go along. You might be wrong, or it might
work out great. The biggest shortcut to acquiring experience personally,
is to ask specific questions. And the best place to ask questions is at
your local model club (Track Link comes a pretty close second, but you
can't beat the face-to-face factor).
The bottom line is to ask away. Ask anything and you are likely to get a
reasonable answer or three.
For tools, take a look at Chris Bolick's reply to the "Re: What is/are
your most valuable modelling tool(s)?" thread in this forum. That's a
start for hand tools. As you get more experienced you'll start to pick
up other, more specialized, tools to do specific jobs. I would suggest
that a Dermel tool be one of your first special tools as it is so versatile.
So, ask questions, be specific, if you can, and you will get great
answers. None of us here bite, and I never met a modeller yet who
wouldn't talk your ear off about how he did anything on his model.
Paul
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Paul Roberts
tankmodeler@rogers.com
Scale Tech Distributing
Scale Model Builders
http://members.rogers.com/tankmodeler/ |
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