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Thanks for the compliments. Especially from a master such as yourself! I reinforce everything because I HATE warping, and I use them in tabletop wargames with my kids. So heavy duty and overkill are the norms. It's hard not to greeble them every time I build one. That's what happened with the...

The kind gentleman who designed this model was nice enough to talk me through recoloring the Prowler to match my Kirchner (the original color scheme is gray). I finished it up yesterday. As you can see, I need practice on making wheels. I sanded down all the edges, and ended up repainting them...

On the newspaper, that's very true. I have use superglue to harden things up, I also found this neat trick in an old book on model railroading: If you have a gap, fill it with baking soda. Good old Arm & Hammer works just fine. Avoid the box in the fridge, because it seems to absorb moisture...

I seldom build the same thing twice. I know the Thunder is your specialty. Does it get easier with repetition?

Beautiful work!

I made some wooden knives for our dojo last year, and gave them each 2-3 coats of lacquer. I used rock maple, and walnut, both hardwoods, and poplar, which is sort of hard. I noticed after lacquering them, they felt more like plastic than wood.

It was one of those midnight inspirations, somewhere between epsiode 1 billion and 1 billion 34 of Star Trek Voyager. I wish I'd cut them a hair wider, though.

I have found that if I put a second sheet of paper underneath the one I am punching, my hole puncher will go completely through the first layer, and I get nice clean rivets. I imagine if one was careful enough (and I ain't!) you could get rivets as well as a nice piece with a lot of neatly lined...

I never thought of the comic book angle. I blacksmith as an outside hobby (knives, mostly), and...well...sometimes that's about how I fix things. There's something therapeutic about blacksmithing, whether it's creating something, or just beating the crap out of something with a hammer, either...

I use one of these: It's for leather, but it works on paper, thin cardboard, and plastic as well. What I like is that it's got several different sizes of holes.

I build one of these straight from the printer a few years ago, but lost it in a fire. When I decided to build it again, I tried to do it on the cheap and print it in black and white then color it. It looked like crap. Not just the color I chose, the whole idea looked like crap. I got...

Thanks! The more I look at it, the more I like it! I even took it out and played with it some today. (I may not be a child, but I can always act like one! Just ask my wife!)

Honestly...I never thought of that. I have also tried peeling half the thickness of the tab away (doesn't work that great) or even shaving edges down on thicker parts. Next model I tackle though....

I've never heard of that, but since I do woodworking now and again (usually when it's a lot warmer outside), I'll look into it!

They're craft paints. Pretty thick, (like wall paint or runny pudding) but thin easily enough with water. I started using them when I was making wargames terrain on a regular basis. I use them to edge my models now, with a small flat brush and drybrushing the edges. They have a hard time...

Thanks to both of you! I guess I have to just accept that tweaking is part of my building process. I think I may end up building every model I want to build twice: once to figure out what I'm doing, and once to get it right. I always thought it looked like a descendant of an Abrams. At some...

Would that work with paints like Delta Creamcoat or Apple Barrel? They are really thick to begin with.

I took a break from some of the bigger projects I've been finishing up, and decided to build this little tank. It's a "near future" job that, to me, looks like a direct descendant of the Abrams. I decided to build this straight from the printer, and I learned...I can't. I can't build anything...

I thought that was one of the best models in there!

That is an awesome model! How long did it take you to build it? Did you have all the parts on hand, or did you have to/get to go shopping? And if so, where did you go? And would you be willing to share where you found the instructions? I showed my 9-year old the pictures. He drooled all over my...