[WWI] Blob Buckles-was Bob's Buckles

[Hugh Beyts]

Jim wrote 

 

<< An easier but less impressive method is to install the rigging
without turnbuckles and then paint the tb's on with J-B-Weld thinned
with denatured alcohol. Or thick paint>>

 

Jim I agree with you, almost: I believe it's easy, effective, simple &
impressive to use super glue & paint = blob buckles. Not only can this
look quite good it has been known to fool the odd man from Hannants,
makers of after market items, the occasional competition judge, possibly
a few others and should avoid baffling the entire Dutch Nation
hopefully, to Paul's relief.

 

The evidence is at
http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Beyts/Allied/index.html, and the
technique is described in my notes, viz "Final touch was adding the
rigging turnbuckles: a blob of superglue and over painting with black
paint looks about right in this scale." IMHO other methods are either
fiddly, over scale or too time consuming in these smaller scales (1:48
and smaller) and suffer from the major draw back of preventing
sufficient and most importantly even tensioning of the rigging. They
also serve to make rigging a more complex and less pleasurable task than
it is so putting off the uninitiated.

 

I've not met Bob or the mystery man from Hannants but perhaps they
should have gone to Spec-Savers!

 

See http://www.britmodeler.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5398 and
follow the page down for discussion re a mystery  Be12C.

 

Apparently some canny b'std won gold at Milton Keynes with one. J

 

Judging from Bob's picture he looks pretty attractive for a bloke,
though I keep hearing Captain Blackadder's quizzical inflection of Bob
ringing in my ears.

 

 

Hugh

 
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