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wargrider wrote:... I'm a dentist, so I can practice some of skills every days ^^...
I've asked my dentist about some of the interesting glues, quick-hardening resins, and tools he uses. They (and a dentist's skills) do seem useful for modelling. But wow, they're much more expensive than modelling supplies! LOL
I am 46 years old, I am an attorney that mainly does transactional real estate, I am active in my son's Boy Scout Troop as an adult committee member and I build scale models and hang out in my basement in my spare time. I started putting models together when I was about 6 and have been hooked ever since. I never have stopped I have had times when I did less and times when I did more. In the last couple years it has become more constant.
wargrider wrote:... I'm a dentist, so I can practice some of skills every days ^^...
I've asked my dentist about some of the interesting glues, quick-hardening resins, and tools he uses. They (and a dentist's skills) do seem useful for modelling. But wow, they're much more expensive than modelling supplies! LOL
Cheers, Chris
I use some of my tools for modeling, like old tools used to shape composite. Our resin based (light cured) are too expensive for modeling ^^
I also use a sandblaster I have in my cabinet, very useful before painting sometimes and of course old drills!
wargrider wrote:... I'm a dentist, so I can practice some of skills every days ^^...
I've asked my dentist about some of the interesting glues, quick-hardening resins, and tools he uses. They (and a dentist's skills) do seem useful for modelling. But wow, they're much more expensive than modelling supplies! LOL
Cheers, Chris
I use some of my tools for modeling, like old tools used to shape composite. Our resin based (light cured) are too expensive for modeling ^^
I also use a sandblaster I have in my cabinet, very useful before painting sometimes and of course old drills!
I sell a UV light-cured resin kit for an entirely different industry. 1 kit with 2 UV lights and 4 small syringes of resin runs about $100, or $29.50 for a single syringe. Each syringe has 3cc's of resin.
I am just curious how this compares in cost with what you use. What you use I am sure is stronger. I haven't tried our stuff on models yet, but once i get my new bench set up, I will be playing with it a bit.
retired now but in another life i was a paramedic/registered nurse. flight certified, advanced life support certified. now medically retired due to a broken neck. now i have time to build models but can't decide where to begin.
Well, I will admit to being 40+, and I'm Disabled. I am the "go-to" for fashion & cosmetics advice in my circle of friends, and I'll be immodest and admit that perfect strangers approach me to get fashion tips.
Other than that, I love scale models of all types, and painting miniatures for wargames, both science fiction and historical.
28mm figurine of Sir Michael Caine portraying "Leftenant Bromhead" from the movie "Zulu!"
1/48 Mercenary "Sisters of Mayhem" fire support team from "Dust 1947". The woman in the bikini is a conversion.
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~I wanna be the only one to make it to the light
Take it to the edge where I have died a thousand times
And maybe I could be the one
To ride into the setting sun tonight
Just drive~
We seem to be having a theme here as I am freshly retired, (end of February) and it was medically required as I am now disabled. Before that I was a mailman for 31 years. Early last year I got throat cancer and have been fighting it for a year now. Finally feeling a lot stronger and through my working years I said "I can't wait till I'm retired so I can start building some of the stash." I started that last week. We are having a 1 to 1 scale house built so scale modeling might be a bit spread out for this year but the new spread has a dedicated model room so I am really excited about that. Hope to post some builds here in the future. Have always enjoyed this group as I find the folks on here very helpful and talented. Tim Keily
I'm 63, been a modeler since age 7 or so. I work as an installer for an automotive air conditioning company. We add complete AC systems to cool/heat the passenger compartments of shuttle buses, limos and the like. I have been with this company for 30 years. Still enjoy the work! I discovered road racing in 1965, been a nut for it ever since. The little picture here is one of the thrills of my adult life, I got to sit in the Chaparral 2F many years ago, Troy Rogers took the photo.