Somewhat battered and tired this weekend from a busy week at work so my focus this weekend is modelling, listening to music and podcasts. I cancelled the sky sports package as soulless empty football stadiums and little else of interest finally prompted me to do this. It took me thirty minutes as the virgin media website doesn't provide any option to do this and the lengthy phone call I suspect is deliberately designed to make it difficult for customers to make changes that result in paying out less money! But it's done and it is one unnecessary thing to pay out for. I would like to get rid of the TV, cancel the TV licence and use the computer for anything on-line I choose to watch. Sue doesn't want to get rid of the TV so that will have to stay.
Another reason is the photograph below (Courtesy Neville Sissons) of Squadron Leader George Butler DSO DFC who was with 11 Squadron in Burma and was a local man in Grimsby and Laceby. I am thinking of a future build of the Hurricane below and displaying this alongside the Lightning. His mother was Norwegian hence the badge on the Hurricane.
I hope all is well with you folks during these trying times and I intend to quietly enjoy the remainder of a delightfully lazy Sunday.
TTFN.
posted by delcatto at 2:07 pm
4 Comments:
Does the plastic in these models become brittle with age?
That's an interesting question BW. I would guess that the various chemicals used in the paints, glues, clear coats, etc...give some protection and some modellers have kits they built in the fifties and sixties. Some also strip these oils builds of paint and repaint them. There are also different plastics used and I buy kits that are twenty or thirty years old as well as newer models. What is more likely to break or give way is the glues holding the plastics together.
That leads to another question which is what do we do when we run out of space to display them? That was asked recently and many of us replied storage in old boxes but some stated simply they destroy them, throw them away or give them away. I have a small stash of fifty or so kits but some have hundreds if not thousands of kits, too many to build. There will then be garage sales when the modeller has died or kits are thrown out. One guy in the US came upon a skip full of kits and the woman said he could have them for free but he paid her a few hundred dollars for the lot which he estimated was worth thousands. He told her this but she accepted the smaller amount as a bonus as she was throwing them out anyway.
I would also add that small children and as I know from experience cats are the deal enemies of built models! I had to repair two builds earlier this week when the smallest cat sat on them!!
I was wondering as eg plastic bowls certainly get brittle with age. I was thinking that if one buys old kits, there might be a danger that bits/tags etc break off during the build.
It does sound like cats are more of a danger than old plastic mind ;)
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