[WWI] LVG C.VI

[Jim Landon]

<<I find it funny your statement of spending time on your knees looking for parts.  At my workshop when someone goes "uh oh", we assume the position and crawl around on the floor until the wayward part has been located.>>
 
( LOL - visualizing a whole field of plumbers' cracks.) But seriously it would be nice to have help. If my grandkids happen to be over at our house I'll ask them to help me find the dropped part, but after many fruitless searches over the years, they now just say "No Grandpa it's too small". 
 
<<I started bringing a draftsman's brush from years past to gently sweep the floor.>>
 
I've done that more than once. All it does is point out how dusty my workshop is.
 
I like to use music wire for rigging, engine push rods and many other things. It has the extra advantage that I can wave a magnet over the floor and the invisible piece of wire will be there when I turn the magnet over. Usually.
 
<<One day we searched in vain until the part showed up super glued to the modelers hand.>>
 
LOL. Don't recall doing that but I have hunted in vain on the floor only to find the part right there on the bench top.
 
<<... I probably missed the exhaust which of course in not shiny.  When I think about it, I mist the entire model with a very thin spray of Sail.>>
 
What the heck is Sail?
 
<<The reason you spend 20 hours on one part is that it works.  I know if I reached inside one of your models and flipped a switch, the sucker would start.>>
 
LOL. No, you dummy! After you flip the switch somebody would have to prop her. (Grin)Later,
Jim


From: djuggie at comcast.netTo: wwi at wwi-models.orgDate: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:25:51 -0800Subject: Re: [WWI] LVG C.VI



Jim,
 
    Thank you.  I find it funny your statement of spending time on your knees looking for parts.  At my workshop when someone goes "uh oh", we assume the position and crawl around on the floor until the wayward part has been located.  I started bringing a draftsman's brush from years past to gently sweep the floor.  One day we searched in vain until the part showed up super glued to the modelers hand.
 
    As far as shiny, I don't make my models as shiny as some and I probably missed the exhaust which of course in not shiny.  When I think about it, I mist the entire model with a very thin spray of Sail.
 
    The reason you spend 20 hours on one part is that it works.  I know if I reached inside one of your models and flipped a switch, the sucker would start.
 
Dennis
 
 
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