"Converting your model soldiers, 1975" Topic
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| Kuznetsov | 28 Nov 2023 7:05 a.m. PST |
Originally broadcast 29 May 1975. Link to BBC video: link |
| PaulRPetri | 28 Nov 2023 3:27 p.m. PST |
I do not know who that master modeler is but WOW! He was great! |
nnascati  | 28 Nov 2023 7:08 p.m. PST |
Interesting, but why wouldn't he have started with an ACW figure in a sack coat? |
 Bobgnar | 28 Nov 2023 8:52 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the link. Perhaps if I did my work wearing a tie, I would get better results. I like the idea of taping bottles of glue to a small brick to provide stability, |
 Yellow Admiral | 29 Nov 2023 12:58 a.m. PST |
Now I need to find liquid plastic. That stuff looks amazingly useful. |
| Zippee | 29 Nov 2023 2:59 a.m. PST |
No 54mm easily available ACW figures in 1975 (maybe something from Historix) – the airfix rifleman was pretty much the stock conversion dolly back then, mostly due to the bent knee option for kneeling/running. Liquid plastic is literally the sprues melted in glue – very bad for the health if unventilated but we knew no better back then. I remember watching Bob Symes making a Cromwell from paper, including cutting and placing all the track teeth one by one – thousands of 'em and the damn thing looked umpteen times better than any effort of mine to build a kit from the box! |
| Yellow Admiral | 29 Nov 2023 11:16 a.m. PST |
Liquid plastic is literally the sprues melted in glue – very bad for the health if unventilated but we knew no better back then. That's what the modeler said in the video, but I was hoping there was a professional product by now. Doesn't seem to be. On the bright side, now I know what to do with the jar of Tamiya liquid styrene cement that has gotten too low for the cap brush to reach.  |
 Wolfshanza | 29 Nov 2023 11:18 p.m. PST |
Tamiya makes a modeling putty in a tube for plastic. |
| Kuznetsov | 30 Nov 2023 2:08 p.m. PST |
I was thinking that the Tamiya putty was probably just a thicker version of the liquid plastic from the video. |
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