Treadhead's Micro-Mini Contest Entry

[Getter 1]

Great build TH :D

Have you seen my tip on "sticky fingers"?

Helps hold those tiny parts

G1

[treadhead1952]

Thanks G1,

Well, I tried to look it up, but you are sorta prolific. :D

I have a couple of my favorite pairs of tweezers that I use most. The tips on them come together dead flat after filing them down that way on some sharpening stones. If I really need to get a sure grip on a itty bitty piece of something, I dip the tips into some contact rubber cement and let it dry completely. The rubber coating makes for a very slip proof surface on the tips. Returning them to regular use is as easy as cleaning them off.

So what is your tip?

[Getter 1]

Hey TH,

Here's the link,

Sticky Fingers

G1

[treadhead1952]

Thanks G1,

Aha, so now I know. Neat tip, I will have to try that out one of these times.

[treadhead1952]

Hi All,

Well, here is my second contest entry in this Micro Mini Contest. I shrank the JMSDF Oyashio Fast Attack Diesel Electric Submarine down to a handy 1/700 scale and proceeded to have some fun with it. Copying the parts onto ordinary Copy Paper was the proper choice from the start for such a tiny craft. I clipped them out with scissors and laid them out so you can see where I started.



Rolling the edges of the hull then gluing the parts up on the bottom seam sort of clued me into having to build this by telescoping the aft end parts first and gluing them up. The front end was a lot easier to deal with by just stacking each piece on to the next and capping them off with the nose piece. While the original kit would have you keep the hull in one long piece and just fold and glue each segment, being in this tiny size made that impossible. I even resorted to using some strips on the nose pieces on the inside to make them easier to deal with when gluing together.



I made up a base from some balsa wood as the after fin on the bottom interfered with it sitting level on the hull bottom. So here is my second entry complete.



To compare it to a 1/700 scale plastic kit U VIIC Hobby Boss kit seemed appropriate with these little guys.

[Pat_craft]

The submarine is a good idea ! There are almost only planes in this contest...

[treadhead1952]

Thanks Pat,

Not being tied down to just one subject can be entertaining if you care to look around a bit. I found Erik Schubach's Commodore SX 64 Executive Computer on the Paper Replika site and just couldn't resist shrinking it down by half. Somehow it just didn't look quite right to me, then after looking about on the net, I figured out what was missing, the cable and plugs that joined the CPU to the Keyboard. Folding some card up and adding a couple of inches of black insulated copper wire to some drilled holes added that missing touch. So while the previous two were in the "micro" category, I chose to go to the "Mini" side of things for my third entry.