Quote from: Techno on 10 July 2012, 10:53:31 AM
Open hands are also a right pain in the bum to make...(says Mr Anything for an easy life)...So that the hand 'looks nice'/looks right.
Personally I'd chop out/chop off the original flagpole, then drill through the hand with a 0.7 or 0.5mm bit (using a pin vise) then insert the brass rod.
Yeah...OK..I know.....I'm used to doing that sort of thing and I have the relevant bits of kit to do it...
But I reckon the majority of you wouldn't find that too difficult to do as a start to converting models.
Lemmey's right about Putting on something like an Imperial Eagle though.....Now that IS fiddly.

If I ever get the time (Hah !)...I'll do a quick stage by stage 'montage' of photos, if that would help ?

Cheers - Phil.

My God, a man who knows how to spell "vise". There is hope for orthography yet!

But I did put a capital 'P' in where it wasn't needed. 
Cheers - Phil.

Banana fingers can be forgiven, except in a harpsichordist.

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But WHY FK....Is it referred to as a pin vise....When the British spelling of a tool that clamps/grips something is vice ?
The large 'clamp' sitting on my desk would be referred to as a vice (over here)....Yet the little pen shaped 'dooh-dah' that grips a tiny drill bit is a vise ?

'English' is such a strange language sometimes.

What's the 'correct' past tense of fit ?.....To me it's fitted...In a lot of the books I listen to (I can't read while I push putty about...I have to look at what I'm 'sculpting')...I hear the word 'fit' used as the past tense....That drives me insane. 

Cheers - Phil - Confused....But trying to be literate.

Depends what vice/vise you practise/practice Phil 

vise/vīs/Noun: A metal tool with movable jaws that are used to hold an object firmly in place while work is done on it, typically attached to a workbench.


Synonyms: vice - clamp - visa


vice/vīs/Noun: Immoral or wicked behavior.


Preposition: As a substitute for: "the letter was drafted by David Hunt, vice Bevin who was ill".


Combining form: Acting as deputy or substitute for; next in rank: "vice regent"; "vice-consul".


Synonyms: noun.  defect - vise - fault
preposition.  instead of - in place of - in lieu of - for

So...
Really...There's no definitive answer as to whether it's vice or vise ?
I'm even more confused now
I'll just stick to pushing putty around.
Cheers - Phil.

Me ?...Practice vices/vises ?
I'm as pure as the driven slush Matey

I think one day all the English-speaking peoples of the world are going to have to get together and thrash out a logical spelling for the language. Until that day it will never be the true lingua-franca that it could be. 

Meanwhile, different branches of English will keep evolving, and borrowing from other langauges.
All these loan words like curry, pyjama, bungalow, shadenfreude are all JUST so passé!

Oh No !

I'm FAR too old to learn even more new spellings for words that sound the same and have completely different meanings !
Ray's right....It's all evolving...Much too quickly.....Erk !!!
Cheers - Phil. (Who struggles with 'text speak'...Though I can eventually work it out.)

Gr8, L8a! 

Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 July 2012, 10:28:06 AM
Meanwhile, different branches of English will keep evolving, and borrowing from other langauges.
All these loan words like curry, pyjama, bungalow, shadenfreude are all JUST so passé!

Which, interestingly are never used in the Brigade of Guards, as they never went further East than Suez...No" mufti" for us only "plain clothes".

Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 July 2012, 10:52:48 AM
Gr8, L8a! 

Srtd....L8a Gzr !

That's quite enough incomprehensible 'text speak'.
Cheers - Phil.

Try this...
http://www.textmewhat.com/Default.aspx

Quote from: Techno on 11 July 2012, 10:02:20 AM
So...
Really...There's no definitive answer as to whether it's vice or vise ?

vis a vis vice or vise i would say visa versa