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Here is my little shot. <a href="http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/6041/kitwayde9.jpg">http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/6041/kitwayde9.jpg</a>I use the Ambroid Safeweld as it has the brush inside the glass bottle very precise but also extremely easy to get glue where you dont want it because a drop will take off, run down the corner crack and then pool out anywhere it can find following gravity... brick mortor creases etc.Painting is straight from the can, airbrushing to happen in 2008. But until then, I paint a part, let it dry a day (Minimum) sometimes I will sniff a part and continue to let it dry undisturbed for days until it quit making paint odor. That is my first line of defense against fingerprints, hair, dandruff etc. Ick!Spareparts. You can see a stack of spares to the left. There is more in a box nearby. If something gets fubared really bad, I'll get the factory to send me the replacement part or buy a second kit of the same kind for more spares. Accumulate spares from EVERY plastic kit you build. You never know when that one widget comes in handy.The tools are what I used on the building. What is not shown is the dremel moto tool. I carved out a roof corner with the dremel. Then covered the gaping holes with the air blower and associated rack, piping etc.. but that roof fits and does not look too bad.Sharp xacto knife and no coffee or other nervous system altering stimulants. If you feel jiggly, nervous, cranky, bad tempered... PUT that knife down and WALK AWAY from the workbench. Why? The very first part you pick up to trim will recieve a whittle wood carving that will render it destroyed.That's all for now. Your first plastic kit will look.. ok. Not great but ok. sorta.. umm.. wow...hmm..Every kit you build in your lifetime from that first kit WILL get better and better.Those instructions? Well... check, recheck and check again and YES that window pane you installed WILL be upside down.If you have to force something to fit it's not correct; go back and recheck that diagram. Double check your numbers.Oh, every building you MAKE for the railroad, PLEASE dont use the same exact shade of red or whatever color. Try to shift among different brands and slightly different but close enough colors. The green on this building is sometimes reduplicated elsewhere on other buildings in small ways as a way to induce a family look. But all my buildings try to be different in some way but not too wildly so.The white container is window glue. I think that is the Testors stuff. But it will dry clear and you can gently remove excess squeeze drops from the panes, corners etc with the point of your blade.The black container is the regular testors glue. That is my strong stuff to hold that item to another item. I save the walthers goo and other chemicals for even stronger bonds which are used VERY sparingly.I keep strips of square wood as reinforcment for sagging roofs, corners or other trouble spots in the building.The table has a glass top. it's kinda flat but not really. Any sags in the overall structure can be made up with a extra dallop of scery material around the edges.During the construction some time ago, I tipped that glue bottle down and spilled about half it's 1 ounce capacity all over that table. It made a fat pond which immediately started to head for my clothes, the floors, the walls, the kit im building etc.. Emergency.Grabbed a fistful of papertowels and wiped up the entire blot as it sat there considering which way to go. And resumed building.Any other material than glass such as wood table top etc it would have been a major showstopping MESS.Remember what I told you about that paint dry time? Same with glue. Once you know at the moment with TWO parts you just glued is good enough, perfect or whatever STOP FIDDILING and set it aside to DRY. DONT TOUCH those parts again that day. Because YOU WILL ruin it, make glue fingerprints over everything you touch etc.Finally but not last.. Rome isnt built in a day. The foundation took one week, first floor another week, second floor another week and the roof and doodats more weeks.Still not done yet. Belive me, Ive got about a month more of work before that thing is ready.
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