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Scratching

Kiwidave4

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Not sure if I follow the aim here. Is it a challenge or a workshop to help people scratchbuild?

I never build OOB so all my models have a degree of scratchbuilding, sometimes just a few minor details, sometimes a complete rework as was the case with my Tamiya Saladin which only used three of the original parts.
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I am going to be a grumpy old man and suggest that the hardest thing about scratchbuilding is not the use of tools/materials, it is the visualisation of the item that you want to build. All bits of machinery basically break down into geometric shapes;- circles, squares, spheres, cubes, etc. It makes no difference if you want to build a gearbox for a F1 car, a cupola for a tank or an engine nacelle for an aircraft, the starting point is to look past what everone else sees and recognise the componet shapes.

My current, stalled, build is a Tamiya Chally 1 which has recieved some scratchbuilt parts;-
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Not sure if I follow the aim here. Is it a challenge or a workshop to help people scratchbuild?

I think when I used the word Challenge I had in my mind that we would challenge ourselves. I'd take up the challenge to tackle a scratch build. Maybe we should rephrase it.

But in the meantime...

:woohoo: :woohoo:

:notworthy :notworthy

Excellent stuff Dave! I agree with your statement about visualizing what you want to do. I'm stuck on a F4F Wildcat and scratch building the cowling frames. I have this picture in my head of what it should look like but because of some complex curves I just can't pull it off. :idonno
 
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