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- Mistakes are inevitable. A Professional is simply an amateur who knows how to gracefully recover from their mistakes. Learn and practice with purpose, become proficient.
- Anything worth doing is is worth doing badly at first, then grow from there. Seek out experienced modellers who will help you.
- Use a test piece of styrene sheet to test techniques or practice before applying to your build.
- Different types of plastic cement (cool, medium, hot, extreme) are tools, each performing a specific type of bonding.
- Tightly capped bottles can last for years.
- Depending on the brand, clear or black coloured cement is available.
- Cyanoacrylate (CA) also known as SuperGlue has a limited shelf life of about 24 months from the date of manufacture.
- All CA glues have the same Cyanoacrylate base, proprietary ingredients for anti-shear strength vary by manufacturer.
- The partially used bottle will eventually become a brick or tacky syrup within months of opening and there is nothing to prevent it. The chemical properties of Cyanoacrylate determine lifespan.
- Purchase fresh CA from new stock and look for a manufacturing date stamp or ask the hobby shop how old the inventory is.
- Date bottles of CA to know where they are in the product lifecycle.
- Get around people who are better modellers than yourself.
- Compare yourself to yesterday’s you, not someone else’s today.
- Understand the brand of paint you want to use.
We know what we know,
know what we don’t,
don’t know what we don’t know.
