Good morning all Friends..Colleagues..Modelers..
what is the recipie for a good looking and stunningly performing craft..? yes..buy a kit of laser cut..read and study instructions ..follow instructions..and finish..sure, but imagine that we sees a craft, while driving bay, and yes an extra ordinary one..yes want to make it..so..? serches for old scraped parts, of wood, and all other..start, by looking in to plan, as it down loaded from net..in request..hard labour..for weeks some times it will goes to months..heavy cost..and no idea about the stabilty..so, we adds lots of led weights to make stable her..result..poor performance..or high performance at high costs..
But, realize the thing, that we can make any craft in to any size, and any type..with thermocol..(expanded Polystrene)..and that we do not need any money for the materials...!! usually i collect lots of thermocol sheets from, nearest town, as this town is Governed by Central Gov, is under Union Teritory, is Mahe, and the tax here is too low..so ample of purchases happens here a day..most of the refrigerator and TV sellers drops their packages in dump, but now they keeps all thermocol packages for me...and all they are happy that their scraps are cleanned automatically..but me..its all treasures..loads of basic materials...in various grades..yes..and thinking again..and thanking again to God that for the oppertunity..
And i realizes, many modelers stay away from modelmaking, because of the high cost..but look once here..its too easy and too inexpensive to build a craft..scaled..semiscaled..war machine..cruiser..big ships..patrol..aircrafts..longs....or purely from imagination...
all we know, art is a divine matter..its all a Gift from God..and the art is a medicine for human being..i have a person here, was my class mate from school..and beacme a drunkad..was kicked out even from the de addiction centre..i always sees him as i goes to canal side for R\C boating..basically he is also an artist..after metriculation he went to fine arts college, and i to poly..and after few days he came to me, just to look the crafts in water..and now he stopped drinking and joined us..with modelling..now he is also started making models..and taking medicines to eliminate the withdrawel symptoms..i am thanking god, as he is an excellent painter..now, around the clock..he is with boating...see the amazing power of art..!!..
so if the art is the real gift..think about the model making..!!! when i drops my cheek on to the procecium arch, of my dioramas..with lights on..i feels it as real..a magical world..amazig experiences..so making a model is far advaced than drawing a picture of same..so..? yes..we must make models..up to our own..non stop..creations..and yes..making..so, it came here and following..so..? yes here is my new Fast Gun Boat..is born..
i Took 6 days to complete this craft, along with 7 others..still happy because she is a beautifully stunning one...from last 5 years, i completed lots of PT boats in various scales..Elco..Huggins..and many..some of them carried by my Friends..and some "handled" by my little son Kundoos...the bigger scale was 1:12..so repeating the same is a waste..so i decided to make one my own that matches the scale of usually used crafts..1:28th..
so as usual, i started with thermocol..after test runs i followed the work...