What modeling item could you not live without....
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 10:13 am
Firstly, I owe everyone a bit of an apology as I've not posted on the forum for quite a while. However, I have never stopped checking in to catch up on all the great builds, news, chat and general lunacy! 
And I must say the standard of work being posted just keeps going from strength to strength. Also, the number of members now is quite jaw-dropping, although I'm glad to say that ISM is still the same super friendly, non-judgmental place that it has always been. Hats of to Lee and Paul for keeping the vision going.
I know, I know, I'm completely off topic, but I feel that I owe a little explanation for my lack of contribution over the past few months. Without boring you all with some sorry tale, lets just say that work hasn't been quite a bed of roses. In short, my business partners decided that when the going got tough, they could run off like scared little girls rather than stand and duke it out like men. However, to carry the fighting analogy going, when you're surrounded by just one too many guys and they all have bats, you resign yourself to the fact that the best thing to do is to lie down and take your licks. Yeah, thats not me though and I'd rather go down swinging and go down I did.
Back to present day and with the cuts and bruises almost healed, I decided to get back to my third favourite thing (the first being modeling and the second being ISM - of course!), that being.......asking stupid questions!
For those that have had the misfortune of reading any of my previous posts, they will know that I like to stir things up a little by asking fairly innocuous questions and then to stand back and let peoples opinions do the rest. Previously I have celebrated the pride of my Scottish heritage, extolled the virtues of being left-handed, as well as a couple of other topics that escape me now.
Yesterday I decided to get back to the hobby that I love and with this in mind I decided to have a go at mending a dio that I had been working on last year. The barrel on one of the tanks had snapped off and being resin it needed a dab of CA glue to fit it back in place. Removing the cap of my trusty bottle of Rocket Rapid, I tentatively squeezed. Knowing that it would take a little more effort as the bottle has laid untouched for a few months, I squeezed harder. Rather unexpectedly, this did the job and a huge blob of CA landed on my cutting mat. Oh heck, I cried, or words to that effect and I immediately reached for my tube of kitchen roll. It was then that it dawned on me that I had done this almost subconsciously, without even looking to see where it was. Even after all this time, it was still like a reflex action and it was in this moment that I realised that the item that I could not live without was my trusty old roll of paper towels
So what does it for you, is it that trusty old airbrush that has been your faithful servant for many a year, or maybe that size 1 Windsor and Newton sable brush that still paints like true. Or maybe its those old sprue cutters that have been resharpened more times than you care to remember - what does it for you?
And I must say the standard of work being posted just keeps going from strength to strength. Also, the number of members now is quite jaw-dropping, although I'm glad to say that ISM is still the same super friendly, non-judgmental place that it has always been. Hats of to Lee and Paul for keeping the vision going.I know, I know, I'm completely off topic, but I feel that I owe a little explanation for my lack of contribution over the past few months. Without boring you all with some sorry tale, lets just say that work hasn't been quite a bed of roses. In short, my business partners decided that when the going got tough, they could run off like scared little girls rather than stand and duke it out like men. However, to carry the fighting analogy going, when you're surrounded by just one too many guys and they all have bats, you resign yourself to the fact that the best thing to do is to lie down and take your licks. Yeah, thats not me though and I'd rather go down swinging and go down I did.
Back to present day and with the cuts and bruises almost healed, I decided to get back to my third favourite thing (the first being modeling and the second being ISM - of course!), that being.......asking stupid questions!
For those that have had the misfortune of reading any of my previous posts, they will know that I like to stir things up a little by asking fairly innocuous questions and then to stand back and let peoples opinions do the rest. Previously I have celebrated the pride of my Scottish heritage, extolled the virtues of being left-handed, as well as a couple of other topics that escape me now. Yesterday I decided to get back to the hobby that I love and with this in mind I decided to have a go at mending a dio that I had been working on last year. The barrel on one of the tanks had snapped off and being resin it needed a dab of CA glue to fit it back in place. Removing the cap of my trusty bottle of Rocket Rapid, I tentatively squeezed. Knowing that it would take a little more effort as the bottle has laid untouched for a few months, I squeezed harder. Rather unexpectedly, this did the job and a huge blob of CA landed on my cutting mat. Oh heck, I cried, or words to that effect and I immediately reached for my tube of kitchen roll. It was then that it dawned on me that I had done this almost subconsciously, without even looking to see where it was. Even after all this time, it was still like a reflex action and it was in this moment that I realised that the item that I could not live without was my trusty old roll of paper towels
So what does it for you, is it that trusty old airbrush that has been your faithful servant for many a year, or maybe that size 1 Windsor and Newton sable brush that still paints like true. Or maybe its those old sprue cutters that have been resharpened more times than you care to remember - what does it for you?
