Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

Thanks for the tip about the Finney number plates. Didn't know they were available seperately, that does sound like a useful approach.

 

Must be frustrating that you can't get to a model shop. On the other hand, if they had B&Qs in the Amazon now the world would be moving a little too fast for me to follow :-) But that's easy for me to say!

I found the numberplates while looking for something else. They are fiddly to do this one I superglued, only because it takes about 1/2 an hour to get the soldering kit out. I was pleasently suprised how it went.

 

You can get a lot of things here but itis knowing where. lots of bits and bobs are sold from houses so it is down to knowing who to ask when you start a search. I can't ask my wife's family, who all live here are lawyers and accountants and know little of the engineering modelling world.

Those Finney plates are great. The first time I used them I soldered each digit on individually and it was not an easy task to keep them all lined up (maybe easier with 7mm plates). Then, someone suggested using a drop of gloss varnish to fix them...

 

Nick

I had not thought of that one. I have stuckm number plates on with varnish. As for soldering I always use my RSU on a very low setting.

Brazil and we moan when the local model shop doesn't have something in stock!

There are one or two advantages of living here, but being a model maker is not one. I think I will have to do a workshop post when I have 1/2 an hour.