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Construction Tips topics

• Make your own PE?
• Advice on "orange peel" paint please
• How To Repair Damage to Clear Plastic Hull Pieces
• Removing Klear
• Home-made Finishing Sander
• Seam and edge difficulties
• Simple soldering
• Putty
• Disassembling models
• Making half of something...
• uses for sprue
• PE attaching
• How to: masking canopies using Bare Metal Foil
• Rescribing panel lines
• Getting Cockpits Done FAST
• Authentic chrome plated finish
• Fitting propellors after the fuselage has been joined
• Washing kits before construction (1 2)
• Filler with raised panel lines
• Assembly sequence... building and painting a model
• Resin tip
• Landing lights
• Glueing Celluoid
• Super or Cement?
• Gator Glue
• Canopy Sanding
• Crash moulding materials
• mishapen part.......
• Tape Residue Removal
• SUnderland Wing fault
• camo
• glue on enamel
• How To...Stretch Sprue
• Needle files
• Vallejo Color 520 Clear Matt Varnish, advice please.
• Hiding gaps with tape.
• Saws for cutting resin
• How To...Fill Gaps With Plasticard
• Tinting canopies - can anyone help please?
• Painting / Glueing order - basic question
• Canopy Glueing
• Resin Kit Virgin, Help Needed (Much Help)
• Ejector pins marks on clear parts
• Thick clear acetate/plastic sheet for vacforming
• Contacta Professional glue
• Repairing glued clear parts
• Removing Acrylic Paint
• Fine Molds instructions
• Basswood
• HELP: Yellowed vacform canopies
• Resin parts removal
• Humbrol Acrylic...
• Annealing
• Fixing canopies with CA
• Rigging...With Pictures (1 2)
• how do I remove flash
• Two Questions...(...about 'sprue')
• Cockpit Reference site (US a/c only)
• Tape site
• Blending Canopy "glass"
• Glueing clear parts - the answer!
• The ideal filler
• Sunderland panel detail
• Wire hawsers for military vehicles
• Basket hilt - any ideas?
• rescribing panels
• Filling large holes
• Decals
• Resin Help
• Painting mirrors
• Ejection Seats : Useful references.
• Cheap Electric Paint Stirrer
• bullit belts how to make.......
• Painting wheel centres
• Bread bag clasps
• Stretching clear sprue
• removing enemal paint [ solution ]
• Glazing larger holes....
• NAil Varnish Remover Replacement!
• plastic card - superglue/kicker, are they compatable ???
• Photo-etch tips (1 2)
• Rigging...basics
• Realistic looking rubber Tyres
• Nose Weighting
• Parachute material?
• Repairing raised panel line detail
• Aircraft Wingtip Lights
• Ship's Rigging Material
• building resin models
• Lozenge pattern
• 1/72 WW1 biplane windshields
• Rosie the Riveter/Pounce Wheel
• Filler for resin?
• Please Help (Planes)
• when vacform is very thin,solution !!!!
• Mossie bits
• Beginner needs help
• How does a total numpty (me) make a Vac Form canopy please?
• Primer question
• Building vacforms
• What glues for what ?
• making card buildings
• Vacform canopies
• Polymorph?
• Painting curves
• Strong metal/plastic hybrid rod
• Filing with Tippex the Penguin way
• grain of wheat bulbs
• Ist time Vac former
• Making Resin Parts: Part One - Moulding a Simple Part
• Undercarriage legs
• Using correction fluid
• Making a Truncated Nose-Cone