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Model Construction – Techniques Bank

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The aim of this area of the Techniques Bank will be to provide you with the means to choose the right kit for your skill level and provide guidance on the processes necessary to prepare and construct the component parts to produce an accurate, blemish-free and suitably detailed model, ready for painting and/or airbrushing.

The range of topics that will be covered in the Model Construction area will, we are sure, evolve with time but this is the range of techniques that we either have available now or are in the development stage to go live as soon as possible.

A Beginners Tutorial – How to Build a 1:35 AFV Kit: Tamiya 1:35 Steyr 1500

Adding detail and super detailing (see also Photo Etch below)

Adding improved parts

Canopies and clear parts

Casting your own parts

Clamping and fixing parts

Cutting Tools, other useful tools and getting underway

Drills and Drilling

Filler

Glues and gluing

IDF Model Projects

Kit Instructions

Light and sound projects and resources

Here are links to full builds in SMN that feature light and sound kits:

See also these pages:

Magnets

Planning

Plans

Photo Etch (PE)

Reference material

Repairing mistakes, reinstating and creating surface detail

Resin

Resurrecting old kits

Rigging

Riveting

Rubber-vinyl tyres

Safety

Sanding and Polishing

Scratchbuilding

Selecting a Kit

Soldering

Storing parts during construction

Trouble-shooting

Waterline Models

Other

Top Gun Special! Building Maverick’s F-14A Tomcat 1:48

Read Dave Coward’s review of how to make a well weathered F-14A and in particular one from the movie ‘Top Gun’.