Latest model plane completion: de Havilland DH.88 Comet "Grosvenor House"

[Uncle Wig]

Here's a pretty good one-stop-shop for kits, tools and supplies.

http://store.spruebrothers.com/category_s/2001.htm

http://store.spruebrothers.com/category_s/2004.htm

I use a lot of cyanoacrylate (super glue). Locktite makes a thick gel that is really good for placing smaller parts. That you can get anywhere. Tamiya makes a range of liquid styrene solvent cements that I like - anything Tamiya makes is good.

Do you have a Cutty Sark? http://store.spruebrothers.com/product_p/aca14403.htm

[Uncle Wig]

Racer X wrote:
You should do a Mitsubishi Zero with the rounded wings, in homage to the one recently restored, and flying around Japan this Wednesday.

The Zero is a remarkable and good-looking plane but for the most part WWII fighters aren't my thing. Next up is a 1/48 Hughes H-1 Racer - the most beautiful airplane ever built (some of you might argue for some other plane, but just give up now: nothing comes close!).

[jdc]

Ombligo wrote:
Yeas, styrene. I generally use Testers cement with the applicator brush. I've had to order it online because the only hobby shop within 40 miles closed. Walmart has model kits but no glue to build them with (though their kit selection is nothing I care for anyway).

You have a Michaels? they have a decent selction of stuff.

[Uncle Wig]

jdc wrote:
[quote=Ombligo]
Yeas, styrene. I generally use Testers cement with the applicator brush. I've had to order it online because the only hobby shop within 40 miles closed. Walmart has model kits but no glue to build them with (though their kit selection is nothing I care for anyway).

You have a Michaels? they have a decent selction of stuff.
Honestly, as a source of modeling supplies, Michael's or Hobby Lobby or those kinds of places aren't that useful. You can find good brushes for sure, but for cements, adhesives, paints and so on those places are just to "crafty."

[Ombligo]

Thanks for the link to Sprue Brothers, looks like a great selection.

And no, no Cutty Sark. I've only done a couple sailing ship (and that was many years ago). My interest is in 20th century vessels.

[Racer X]

I love the Hughes racer. I was captivated when they had the flying scenes in the DiCaprio/Hughes movie.

[Octave Doctor]

I built lots of model kits when I was a young teenager. After a few years, the cement started giving me headaches, so I quit the static models, but still tinkered with slot cars. That is, until I got that horrendous '65 Chevy I used to drive, lol.

[Uncle Wig]

Racer X wrote:
I love the Hughes racer. I was captivated when they had the flying scenes in the DiCaprio/Hughes movie.

Unfortunately, those flying scenes would have been a lot better had the beautiful replica of the H-1, the first one in my post above, not been destroyed in a fatal crash. It was supposed to have been filmed for the movie. Overall I was very disappointed in the flying scenes in The Aviator.

[jdc]

Uncle Wig wrote:
Honestly, as a source of modeling supplies, Michael's or Hobby Lobby or those kinds of places aren't that useful. You can find good brushes for sure, but for cements, adhesives, paints and so on those places are just to "crafty."

Not any high end stuff -- I should have clarified -- but at least my local one carries a large selection testors stuff including the glue pictured above.

I will always reember the first "real" kit my dad got me, a Tamiya Honda NS500 racer a selection of Tamiya paint. http://www.tamiyausa.com/items/plastic-m...-kit-14032

I was amazed at the fact the came with little rubber tubing for brake lines and black wire for the spark plug heads.