Tips & Tricks-for-model-building (PoD)

Tips & tricks for model building practice

About the correct use of materials and machines

The materials and handicraft techniques used by the model maker to create his models are extraordinarily versatile. A wide variety of metals, plastics and woods are used and a wide variety of hand tools and machines are employed - the questions about the right selection and application are correspondingly diverse.

The author, himself an experienced model maker, shows in this book what is important when selecting materials, which hand tools and measuring instruments are useful and necessary, and how they are used. A detailed chapter is devoted to machines. Here one learns everything about saws, lathes, milling, drilling, grinding and planing machines, how to assess their quality, which application tools there are and which accessories should be purchased. Finally, with the help of many practical examples and a wealth of illustrations, the working techniques are explained that lead to the perfect result with hand tools or machine use. This ranges from correct measuring and marking to gluing, gluing and soldering to turning, drilling, milling, painting and casting and much more.