Lost your password?

Blogs about: Polly Scale

Featured Blog

my F-104 review/build published!1 comment

Bill Abbott wrote 7 months ago: I hope isn’t too unseemly to mention this, Scott Van Akin at Modelling Madness . com accepted … more →

Tags: plastic models, Model Airplanes, Military Models, Painting and Finishing, tamiya, Testors, Minicraft, Real Airplane Research, model kit review

Glossy and flat paints and finishes

Bill Abbott wrote 8 months ago: Two great questions brought people to my blog yesterday 1) How do you make a gloss paint have a matt … more →

Tags: plastic models, Military Models, Painting and Finishing, acryl, Gunze-Sanyo, Model Master, Mixing colors, Metalic Paint, Testors

No, Don't Jump or Watch Out For the Guy with the Airbrush

cshutchinson wrote 8 months ago: off the bridge. Sometimes building some of these N scale kits will make you pull your hair out, but … more →

Tags: the kitchen sink, N Scale, bench work, paasche vl, paashce, rust, Testors, Iwata, BRIDGE

Building Italeri’s 1:72 B-25B as a Doolittle Raider 4 comments

Bill Abbott wrote 8 months ago: (I wrote this back in ‘03 and it was published in The Styrene Sheet, Silicon Valley Scale Mode … more →

Tags: Me, plastic models, Model Airplanes, Painting and Finishing, tamiya, Accurate Miniatures, Italeri, Mixing colors, Olive Drab

Going in the right direction - fighting AMS

Bill Abbott wrote 9 months ago: Like too many older model builders, I went from building a given kit in an hour or two (yay!) to cla … more →

Tags: plastic models, Model Airplanes, Military Models, Painting and Finishing, tamiya, Testors, Model Master, Hasegawa, Minicraft

Favorite model building tools: Stainless Steel micro-spatula

Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Here is one of the things I’d take to a desert island, or on any trip where I could reasonably … more →

Tags: plastic models, Painting and Finishing, Mixing colors, ..What?, Recomended, Tools, Model Master, Gunze-Sanyo, acryl

Answers to the questions that brought people to my blog...2 comments

Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Hmm, wordpress saves what the search key was that brought people to my stuff, and there were a bunch … more →

Tags: Me, hobby shops, plastic models, Model Airplanes, RC, Painting and Finishing, tamiya, Testors, acryl

Paint color call-outs in kit instructions, believe 'em? Mfg's own paint #s...9 comments

Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: “Propwash” over on the Aeroscale.kitmaker.net site asked the following, excellent, quest … more →

Tags: Model Airplanes, model cars, Model Trains, model ships, Military Models, Painting and Finishing, tamiya, Testors, acryl

Thinning, mixing, spraying and 'washing' with water-based model paints4 comments

Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Thinning Because Polly Scale, Testors Model Master Acryl and Vallejo paints are clearly water based, … more →

Tags: Painting and Finishing, acryl, Gunze-Sanyo, Model Master, Model Master Acryl, tamiya, Testors, vallejo

"Water" based model paints. Testor's Acryl, Polly-Scale, Tamiya, Gunze-Sanyo and now Vallejo9 comments

Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: I build (or at least start) a fair number of plastic models, particularly airplanes and cars, but al … more →

Tags: hobby shops, Me, Military Models, Model Airplanes, model cars, Model Trains, Painting and Finishing, plastic models, alcohol based paint

Quick reviews of San Francisco Bay Area Hobby Shops18 comments

Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Berkeley Ace Hardware 2145 University Ave, Berkeley, CA – (510) 845-0410 http://berkeleyace.co … more →

Tags: 0 Gauge, 1/87, hobby shops, Military Models, Model Airplanes, model cars, model ships, Model Trains, N Gauge


Have your say. Start a blog.

See our free features →

Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS