New Cabinet & Man Cave Set Up.

Peter Hardy
Don't call me when you need to move Mick. It'll be a case of Mick who?

Michael Hickey
Hey Peter don't talk to me about moving, our lease is up early next year and the missus wants a house with a couple of less bedrooms so siblings can't move back in with us.;)

Martin Oostrom
You sure you are a builder and not a manufacturer?
Nice setup 👍

Peter Hardy
You do have the space Lode. Plenty of it. Buy a tent and move the tin lids outside! Whoops! Bit too much Oz vernacular! Tin Lids = kids.

Guy Rump
Great cabinets showing off some lovely models, you seem to be hyper organised! 🙂

Peter Hardy
It's Mrs Hickey, poor woman, slaves away working all day picking up Michael's mess!

Michael Hickey
Naaaah, Pete she slaves all day at work, while I sit and play, building all day.;)

Martin, thanks, I make copies of all my aftermarket resin stuff because it's so much cheaper than buying it over and over again when I build for example like at the moment I've got 6 Academy F-4B's out. I don't want to buy 6 cockpit sets for them all so I buy 1 and mold it, then cast it 6 times and keep the original as a master. As an added bonus, when a product is no longer available on the market I've still got my originals. I got instructions off the net how to make a pressure pot from a paint pot, so I get perfect results every time.

Thanks Lode & Guy.

Spanjaard
that is really well organized! nice cave by the way. i need to get to learn casting and making resins one of this days... or maybe i will get a 3D printer 😛

Michael Hickey
Hey Spanjaard, I looked at buying a 3D printer, I took a couple of pieces with me at the time to show them what I wanted to do, and the manager said I'd have to buy their top of the range 3D printer and even then he wasn't sure it would do the job. The cost of that printer was $2000, for the price of a printer like that molding & casting is a more economical option. Maybe in other countries where they have been available to the public longer the quality of the end result is better and the printers are cheaper. But I will say when molding & casting you need to build or buy a pressure pot for perfect results, with out it you will defiantly get air bubbles no matter how hard you try to avoid them. I must say though it is very rewarding mixing up a couple of liquid chemicals and pouring them into a mold, putting it in the pressure pot and 20 minutes later having a perfect copy.🙂

Spanjaard
indeed Michael. Well, the 3D printer is a plan for the future... when quality is higher, prices are lower, and hopefully i have more cash to spare. i will probably try resin before the 3D printers are good/cheap enough 🙂

Michael Hickey
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