My stash just grew again 2021

[Dizzyfugu]

A cheap Heller 1:72 Bf 109K as body donor (engine/forward fuselage) for my "Iris II" project.

[PR19_Kit]

Not exactly a kit stash growth, but a tool stash growth.

I've just got a 2nd hand Dremel tool set, complete with flexi-drive, drill stand, spare batteries and charger for a RIDICULOUS price. 

[NARSES2]

I've just got a 2nd hand Dremel tool set, complete with flexi-drive, drill stand, spare batteries and charger for a RIDICULOUS price. 

I've always been put off power tools because of the fear of them melting the plastic Kit, are they ok to use ? or do you have to be really careful with them ?

[Gondor]

Not exactly a kit stash growth, but a tool stash growth.

I've just got a 2nd hand Dremel tool set, complete with flexi-drive, drill stand, spare batteries and charger for a RIDICULOUS price. 

That's why I started this thread Kit

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=43946.0

Gondor

[Dizzyfugu]

I've always been put off power tools because of the fear of them melting the plastic Kit, are they ok to use ? or do you have to be really careful with them ?

Just keep the RPMs at decent levels, and do not force the drill bits into the material. Otherwise you can hardly do something wrong - even though a flexi-drive is direly recommended for the Dremel tool, because it is IMHO quite large and unwieldy for delicate jobs. I personally prefer a lighter engraving tool. Has less torque, but is from personalö experience easier to handle and takes the same tools and rill bits as the bigger Dremel thing.

[NARSES2]

Thanks Dizzy 

[Gondor]

I've always been put off power tools because of the fear of them melting the plastic Kit, are they ok to use ? or do you have to be really careful with them ?

Just keep the RPMs at decent levels, and do not force the drill bits into the material. Otherwise you can hardly do something wrong - even though a flexi-drive is direly recommended for the Dremel tool, because it is IMHO quite large and unwieldy for delicate jobs. I personally prefer a lighter engraving tool. Has less torque, but is from personalö experience easier to handle and takes the same tools and rill bits as the bigger Dremel thing.

As Dizzyfugu says, something with a variable speed is esential. Diferent materials require differnt speeds as do the bits you use. A Dust mask would be a good idea if too.

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

This one's got all the bells and whistles, variable speed, variable torque, and a hefty lever on the drill press bit to lower it REALLY carefully.

Sorry Alastair, I didn't remember your 'Toolbox' thread.

[Gondor]

I started it for exactly this reason Kit but I don't try to own it, just point out that it's there to use.

Not exactly a kit stash growth, but a tool stash growth.

Just hardly anyone uses it. No pzazz or something 

Gondor

[zenrat]

I've always been put off power tools because of the fear of them melting the plastic Kit, are they ok to use ? or do you have to be really careful with them ?

Just keep the RPMs at decent levels, and do not force the drill bits into the material. Otherwise you can hardly do something wrong - even though a flexi-drive is direly recommended for the Dremel tool, because it is IMHO quite large and unwieldy for delicate jobs. I personally prefer a lighter engraving tool. Has less torque, but is from personalö experience easier to handle and takes the same tools and rill bits as the bigger Dremel thing.

What Dizz says about Dremels.  I can see how a lighter engraving tool would be an advantage.

I got these today from Metro Hobbies in Melbourne.
20210324_174348 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
20210324_174440 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Old Wombat]

Happy little Spitfire, isn't it!

and

B@st@rd! BNA still don't have their Beauforts &, I'm guessing, won't for a while, yet.

[Gondor]

Just received my Airfix Beaufort from Hannants

Gondor

[The Wooksta!]

Look up Tony O'Toole on Britmodeller, he's batch building them at the

[AeroplaneDriver]

Got home from a few days away for work and found a nice pair of KMC 1/48 Tiny Tim rockets that will hang from the wings of the Aleutian Anti-Shipping Hellcat I'm finally getting back to.

[PR19_Kit]

At long last my set of Evergreen styrene tube arrived today, ordered from Amazon on March 4th.

It came from AUSTRIA, for crying out loud, in this HUGE box! [Note the Scale Reference Cat for sizing purposes, and the tube itself in the foreground]



How much of the world's resources that shipment use up when a small carboard tube would have done the job just as well?