*see the individual track links and pads* Let's go build a Spitfire.

I think you're confusing the peaceful and relaxing hobby of collecting scale model kits with the painstaking hobby of actually building them.

The rumor is Meng made the BMPT just for you, so you can tension the track, after you spend 6 months just building one side of track 🤣

Purchasing the hybrid carrier Mogami may not have been a wise move, but nowhere near as unwise a move as it was for the IJN in real life 😁

When one is a child you build a kit paint it and it looks great! you put on a shelf. As an adult you are checking the number of track links, the correct paint scheme for the time period the correct unit markings and the correct uniform on the military miniatures. Then you see what an expert modeler on KZfaq can do with super detailing, photo-etched parts and impeccable historical research and you give up. Stay Well Chieftain.

I'm a modeler and a military officer too, but I quit/paused modelling about 10 years ago because every time I PCS'd, no matter how well I tried to pack them, the movers just destroyed them. I have a closet full of kits but they're not getting built until I retire in a few more years. 3 years Army, 21 years AF. Love your content.

we have literally watched paint dry with you. why would we not want a video on modeling.

Jingles and the Chieftain both showing us their model lot stuffs... I'm good with that.

In middle school I had gotten into 40k, but the military diverted my attention for about 13 years after high school, and I only just got back into it. I now realize how little patience I had back then!!! lol

Took to modelling after diagnosed with PTSD from British Army, very relaxing, and in a time of lockdown, here in the U.K., it’s been invaluable. Great video! Thankyou, and stay safe my friend.

Halfway though the BMPT track build I would have a "Oh bugger, the model is on fire" moment

Being designated an 'essential worker' suddenly doesn't seem nearly so bad...

Hey Nicholas. Cool to see a modelling video from you!

I've been F'n up plastic kits since 74🤗 It's Satisfying & fulfilling to make it all work. It's Zen at its best when I get an 80-90% success by my own hopes😊

"If I'm happy, I'm happy" BEST MODELLING ADVICE EVER!!!!!!

CHIEFTAIN: omg that track was a night mare to get back on ill make a kit to chill out BMPT: I heard you liked end connectors tehehe

*Track pads exists* Tankers: *PTSD* Modelers: "This is fun!" Chieftain: *Surprised Pikachu face*

When I was 15, I spent the better part of 2 years ever so painstakingly painting, weathering, assembling, and, R/C-ing one of those Lindberg, "Blue Devil", Fletcher Class DD kits. It was equal parts rewarding, and, tooth-grindingly frustrating.

Some 58 years or so ..... Is when I started to build model kits not only that but my Mom taught me how to read with the instructions . Back then each kit had a history and complete paragraphs with step by step instructions . Now I'm retired 62 and I'm still at it building several kits at the same time . I do it this way for a reason . I pick out the kits that need the same color . I also rotate assemblies to pre paint and assemble to other parts . Now getting to your statement . Yes model building can be very relaxing . Unless you're missing a part or two . And have to wait for a week or two , to get replacements . Or as you get further along you realise that you just ran out of the glue or paint and your hobby shop is closed until Tuesday . " some shops are closed on Sunday and Monday " . Yes it can be very relaxing .

I have been blessed/cursed with the model building since I was a kid. I have gone through various stages, cars, planes, tanks, ships, space ships, blah blah. I spent huge time on a CVN-65 Enterprise from Tamiya with P/E up until about 90% completion. A furry member of the household knocked it off the table. Then tried to repair... then later got knocked off again from a different table. Now I have 3 closets filled with my stash, and no where to build them... 1/350 Yamato will be my masterpiece.

I wish we got these random videos more often... they're always a real treat to watch!

Your Abrams "barely legal" in doing is looking great! I just finished air brushing the camo! I've been waiting for a modeling video from you for sooooooooooooo long! THANK YOU!

As a life long modeller (with my share of bad kits that I have built) I have a saying: "life is not worth wasting on bad kits."

LOL 😂 Maybe instead of calling ourselves model builders we just say we’re “model collectors who sometimes build”.

Hey Chieftain, I've never done photo-etch decking, admittedly, but I have had to do several details of the same caliber before. In general for ships, I've got a bit of a book, but PE first. You're on the right track - you'll have to sand down the details pretty flat and apply the PE decking over it. However, be sure to double-check what goes where on the original deck before you do, as some of the PE may unnecessarily obliterate some details that you might otherwise not have replacements for. The decking shouldn't add much more height to the deck if everything is smooth. At least, as far as I can gather anyway. One more bit of advice, if you're new to photo etch in general: most PE is a bit springy by default, so if you have to make anything rounded, it might be to your benefit to have a lighter handy - gently annealing the parts before trying to put them to a round shape makes them much more pliable and agreeable. Just be careful when annealing railing or very fiddly parts - they WILL warp and melt if you keep the flame on them too long. As far as the ship in general, I'm presuming you're also trying to figure out where to even begin with building the kit, yes? I don't want to write too many suggestions and you not need half of them. I'm learning by crash-course, as I have the Tamiya Chikuma and the Trumpeter USS Wasp on my workbench, both with excess details, so I'm happy to offer tips where I can.

Modelling is a great hobby, like most modelers I have moved to the side hobby of model collecting with the reasoning I will EVENTUALLY get to that closet full of kits I promised I would finish...sigh.. I also worked at hobby store for awhile so got to see the wonderful evolution of kit design such as the individual track links. Seeing the photoetching for the Mogami reminded me of a guy I knew who sand the panels down on Revel plane kits and with a scriber re-etch the panel lines back in. Still love the hobby, great for learning patience and it comes with a sense of accomplishment when you finish a kit, specially when you go the extra mile and do the fine detailing or better yet the conversions.

I'm not a real scale modeller myself, I'm just doing 40k. That said, I'd recommend the scale modeling thread on the something awful forums. It's filled with incredibly talented and knowledgeable people.

I built 100 tanks ships and aircraft as a teenager. I’m lots older and being grounded I tried to build a 1/48 Japanese Ki 61. It was a disaster I was so embarrassed I threw it away.

Finally we get a video on the Osorio! Can't believe it. Many thanks, Chief! Let's see how's the thing inside!

Wednesday a modelling video from both Jingles and Chieftain, turns out today was a good day to sit at home and do sod all after all :)

Looking forward to the next video Chieftain! Always fun to see you discuss something you are passionate about.

Big tip for photo etched parts that need to be bent into shape - get a miniature anvil, a razor blade, and the #21 blade for an exacto knife. Anvil + dowel rods (or the horn of the anvil and hand wrap) for curves. But the idea is place the part on the anvil, use the razor blade to set the bend line, and then slide the #21 under the part and lever it upwards. You know better than I do metal likes to flex back, so make sure to over bend. Also make sure (not a problem in Texas I assume) the working temp in the room is warm. Too cold and it gets hard to bend, and could fracture.

I'm a Lucky Guy. My Son is in Cobi Tanks and Planes right now, so it's more of Toy Tanks than Models. But it's fun for him (and a bit for me too!). Maybe he'll be in modelling in a few years...or maybe not, who knows. But in the Moment it's fun to watch my son, my nephew and their bodies to build and Play with those Tanks and Planes...next one STUG III and Valentine MK III! Stay healthy! P.s.: I meant buddies. I've got it TOTALY wrong, sorry.

"When do I have time to do this?" That is a question I've heard from every person who owns miniatures. And their significant others.

I love building tank models in Lego. It's always fun to upgrade and modify when you have ideas and you build it from scratch rather than premade parts

The most satisfying part of modeling was when I took musty, dusty old builds out of the cellar and into the back yard and proceeded to place firecrackers in stacks, turrets, etc. Great fun! 😂

Finished a model CV-6 Enterprise a couple months ago then bought a model USS Missouri. I've been tryna find the motivation to build it but between other priorities in life I can't find it :(

24 hour mogami model built stream!

I used to do scale modeling, but as of late I've been doing only LEGO-style tanks, ships, and aircraft from companies like Cobi, Panlos, Xinbao, Gudi, etc. Every once in a while I think to myself "Perhaps I should get more advanced again and go back to scale modeling." Then I remember all the "fun" you just brought up and happily return to my easy, clean, and simple bricks.

I am a retired {(2012) IN LTC} who got back into modeling after 25 years, who after a phone call with another retired friend of mine, I asked: "what are you doing?" He said, "Building a model M-1 tank." After that conversation, I pulled a old Tamiya T-34 kit and built it, painted it and weather it and have been hook (again) ever since. In the past year, I have built over 15 tanks. The last was Meng's Panther D, which had individual tracks that have to have two guide horns guided on each track, I thought that was crazy. Next time I would just order some Fruil tracks. I have a mini-art T-55 I ordered, started, took three days to build the bottom lower hull, and I realized I was not building a model, but a 1/35 tank out of plastic parts. On the fourth day it went back into the box where it still sits, and I ordered a Tamiya T-55, which I built in 4 days. I think for some people building is like the part they like. I talked to one older modeler and asked him what he did with all the models he built, he said most were in his attic. Which to me was kind of sad, but understandable and he got his kicks building the kits.

I feel your plight. I had the box of the model of my "favourite tank" 38(t) in 1:35 sitting in the corner of my room forgotten for maybe ~7-8 years. Now that the quarantine forces me to find new, creative ways to flee from my responsibilities, I opened it up and started working on it. ...unfortunately, the kit was made by Alanger in ~1992 or so, thus it's a teacher's wet dream when it comes to presenting in exactly what kind of ways can someone screw up an injection molding. Weird design decisions, nothing fits, no line is straight, no plane is flat, holes are filled with plastic, other places are caved in due to thermal shrinking, and of course, I don't have putty nor can I really go out for it. Currently I'm watching KZfaq videos on how to commit seppuku properly.

Yeah, this is why I about 80% of my kits at home are 1/35 Tamiya Armor. I'm in my late 20s and even I can't stand the super-hyper-incredibly-detailed kits some companies are pushing for (a trend first started by Dragon, but taken up by Meng and all the rest). If you're not a super-detailer, Tamiya gives you almost everything you need in a kit. Academy has thankfully chosen to go down the same path - a lot of their recent armor kits are easy to build while retaining a good amount of detail. I just make it a point to AVOID buying kits made in the 90s or older unless it's tamiya. A lot of manufacturers now (academy, trumpeter, etc) made their start copying good kits in the 90s and thus released some godawful kits. AVOID 90s TRUMPETER KITS WITH A WHITE BACKGROUND LIKE THE PLAGUE. (That includes the K1A1!).

Thanks for a great post. It's good to hear honest comments from older modelers. I build for me and me only. I don't spend time super detailing a cockpit then gluing on the canopy that hides all of that lovely detail. For each his own.

What you need for the deck detail is a class of tool referred to as "modeling chisels"; basically, they're small chisels that come in various widths that you use much like a plane to carve down raised detail that will be replaced by the detail on the photoetch. The small size of the modeling chisels allows you to be more selective about removing surface detail than with sandpaper. Another possibility is a fine grinding tip on a rotary tool like a Dremel.

FYI, Friulmodel ATL-137 tracks work with the Meng BMPT. Less fiddly bits and in my opinion, Look much better than the plastic tracks.

I'm glad that i "only" got into Warhammer 40k, that is enought headache for my taste xD

It’s relaxing unless you’re obsessive compulsive. In 1984 I went to the national archives in Washington DC and photographed everything they had on the Curtis BF2C1, an obscure, unsuccessful Navy fighter bomber, (when they still let your fingers do the walking through the stacks).

Its great to see the scale modelling side of you as well, because i think that being interested in tanks and scale modelling are two things that often come together, as can be seen with people like Steven Zaloga or yourself. I love the historic, technical and tactical aspects of tanks and other military vehicles and my way to deal with that is to do the research and then build a model of a particular tank. And the crafty side of this affair is neat too :) By the looks of that truely massive PE set by Flyhawk for your Mogami i would assume that you have to indeed remove a lot of the molded on detail on the plastic deck and rebuild it with the PE parts more or less entirely. That is just a guess though, one would have to thoroughly study the instructions to be sure. That is about as crazy as model ship building can get! Maybe it would be better to sell on that PE set and get instead a few useful goddies for the ship, like metal barrels for the main guns and PE parts for the railing. That should be less intimidating and more enjoyable in the end. Just a suggestion.

The Chieftain talking about my hobby, my life is complete.

Hey, Chieftain! Since you mentioned the EE-T1 "Osório" could you make a video talking about it?

I love that you're a kit guy. It brings a certain type of joy (in theory). I was lucky enough to hang out with Zaloga at World Model Expo in Chicago in 2017. Hearing him go off about old kits is as crazy as hearing him talk about any ordnance.

Great video as always. Because of the quarantine I finally completed 3 kits in past two weeks. Take care and happy model building everyone. From California

simultaneously this video says to my brain, "I should take up modelling" and " I should not take up modelling"

To paraphrase Vince Gilligan: "I enjoy having built models..." The actual building can suck balls. At least neurosurgeons have a patient that heals themselves. Scale models are far less forgiving 😉

Oh God, can I relate to "...it's a hobby, right!". I feel your pain!!! My recommendation, especially on the PE on the Mogami, use what you want! Yes, I know...the Flyhawk (or Lion Roar, I forget) has all this amazing detail...which looks great in the box, and it cost a pretty penny. But, just because it's there, doesn't mean you have to use it...it's not a test. Personally, I have a true love/hate relationship with PE, and aftermarket in general. Yes, when done correctly, the results are amazing; but if you, like me, take a kit down from the shelf, open it up, and say "what a great kit...I'll never finish it in my lifetime!", I guess it defeats the purpose. I have the fortune/misfortune of knowing many excellent modellers, and that's a whole level of anxiety unto itself! Bottom line, if it ain't fun, and it ain't work, you're not going to do it. Love the content, keep it up!

Hey Chieftain! To answer your Mogami question, yes, you have to remove all the raised parts on the deck to add the photo etch on top. It is a lot of extra work cutting and sanding, and then re-building the parts you just removed from scratch. I’m much like you in that I don’t have the time to include building day to day in my life, and I found that when I do, most of it is spent removing molded on bits, sanding, adding one photo etch part, and then scratch building the bits I removed. The progress on 1/700 ships is suuuuuuuuper slow. Check out Ebroin’s Miniatures YT channel where he’s currently working in a super detailed 1/350 tirpitz. He shows you all the techniques and additional steps he gotta do to add photo etch and other details.

Meng kits are over engineered imo , and good luck with that PE, at least it ain't in 1/700

I almost had the entire set of Pz.IVs series.... Until my cousins stole them when I was away at college 😒

:-) That was perfect -- I was chuckling throughout, but then when you pulled out that photo-etch detail kit for the Mogami...

I've been building models since I was a kid in the UK in the 60's . I continued when we came to the US in the mid 70's where choices were much more plentiful for sure . I slacked off somewhat after joining the military but still dabbled a bit . When I was stationed in Korea in the mid 80's I used to get the squadron mail order flyer in my PO box so once a month I'd get a money order , assuming there was anything left after the usual stuff and running the Ville , fill out the form and have the stuff sent to my parents house . I ended up spending 2 years in Taegu and when I got back there was a fairly significant stash of kits and supplies at my folks place . After 15 years I got off active duty and joined the Nevada Guard where I built a model of our M-1 / T-80 Vizmod that ended up on the Generals desk . Now I'm in my 60s and retired so I spend most of my days at the bench . My stash of kits is now large enough that I'll have to live to about 140 to build them all . Just living the dream !

"Oh! A gun barrel!" :)

I got this notification well, building a model of the HMS victory.

My fathers 85yrs old and he still builds 1/350 ship kits. It was a therapy thing for him when he got ill in seventies. Now he's just started his first tank, Tamiya Challenger 1mk3. He also bought a Merkava and an Abrams. So you just have to bite the bullet, sit down and get started. Plenty of online help for those etched kits. I prefer the protos wooden decks, easier to fit. Try Fruil or MasterClub for the tracks for the Terminator. They are white metal tracks but it's the relaxing part of the build for me. Can't see 1/72 so 1/48 or 1/32 for planes.

I've only recently got into models, and I live it! Can't wait to build more. Great video

A question: What's your take on the USMC plan of getting rid of their tanks by the end of the decade?

I build (dig the name of my channel). Aircraft and armor. I actually do videos of them. I just did a history video on Tamiya.

Thanks for posting this. I listened while painting 116 tires on 1/285th scale British armored cars. Nice to hear someone else in modeling hell. Keep em' coming I got a long way to go!

Keep building man, Tamiya kits even 20 years old are pretty nice and rewarding! Don’t let the rivets counter haunting you, build that Tamiya ship from the box it will be a master piece and throw those bloody 1000 pc tracks to the bin. Anyway it’s always a joy to watch your vids, looking forward to the next one!

well I am looking to start, I was watching another youtuber who was explaining everything and he recommended teh 1:48 scale tamiya kits for their ease in building. Are there any you recommend to a complete noob?

I've gotten into flames of war

Scale models was my main hobby from grade school through college. For me, it was the escape. As a matter of fact, I got through a conditioning hike at Marine Corps OCS by imagining working on a 1/72 AH-1 Cobra! It also cost me part of my vision, as I am left-eye dominant and during my growth years strained it into serious near-sightedness, while my right eye uncoupled and retained excellent distance vision. For my Marine Corps physical, I was 20/10 in my right eye and 20/100 in the left. In actuality, my brain has balanced them out nicely, though simple age is starting to take its toll. Like you, I drove my dad to distraction by not only buying modeling stuff, but magazines to read about all the cool models I couldn't afford and the pure art that people made them into.

Up until this past February, it had been 50+ years (Jr High) since I assembled a plastic model. I have jumped in with both feet, air brush, compressor, paint and assorted tools. My first project is a 1/35 Tamiya M4A3E8. Kits have certainly changed since the 60s.

Omg he's lost it! Jk interesting discourse from the usual.

This is kinda like getting into simulation computer games. You send more time setting up gear than you do playing.

Always fun to hear you talk of regular things. Liked the video of replacing a window regulator.

Thanks Chieftain. I have been modeling for over forty years now. It helps with my ADA. It doesn’t matter how it looks when it’s finished all that matter is that you had fun. Start with the easy kits. And if they come out crappy. You can always put a firecracker in them and lite them off after all the this stuff passes by. Keep safe everyone and happy modeling.

The relaxing part comes when you sniff the glue.

Scale Modelling is great relaxing hobby until you drop that one small parts and you gone spend next half day swearing and cursing on whole world looking that little sh**.

My first ever PE work was a gun shield for a German 3.7mm flak gun (sat on a sdkfz) Was so bloody proud about this thing. little foot stirrups, brackets and grab handles, it was honestly display perfect.. Until I knocked it off the table. I abandoned the kit at that point, didn't have the heart to go on.. To be fair, it's not like many modellers have a shortage of kits in their stash.

Loved this video. I hope you post more model related videos.

Stop being a wuss about the tracks, dude - it's not that hard, especially when having a jig in the box. At least these are not the rubber bands, you find in some of the kits now and then.

You forget that you as a KZfaqr bring would bring us joy if you ramble about anything. I speak for propably many of us when I say that you are really good at narrating and bringing story's to live. Also there are a lot miniature builders but not a lot of them talk while the build progresses in the background what makes them relatively boring for me. Keep up the good work and you and your family shall stay safe.

I'm right there with you. I have 4 kits I'm working on right now, although not at the same time. Get bored with the King Tiger, then go to M4A3E8. Waiting on paint to dry on Jagdpanther, then go work on Pz IV H. I have so much time right now I may get one of them finished. Good luck with the tracks, they are going to take longer than the model to put together. Photo-etched is nice and worth it in the end but is an absolute nightmare, depending on what you're doing. Get a good lighted magnifying glass with alligator clips that attach to your desk (not the clips, the magnifying glass). Oh, when you're doing the photo-etched parts Mr. Metal Primer is the best for painting metal and actually having it stick to your parts. Good luck to you, sir. May God have mercy on your soul.

I build 1/700 scale 1941 era Battleships with PE and wooden decks. (Except for the 1914 USS Arkansas and 1925 USS Florida, she was my Great Uncles ship at Veracruz and the Great War). As for rigging, don't get wound up doing all the rigging, just "what looks right". I also use an elastic type of line used by model railroaders for phone lines. I just got the super detail kit for the 1/700 scale Prince of Wales. For the photo etch deck (if it is like the PoW), you are to scrap every think off and the super detail kit will have the bits to put on. I said screw that and bought a wood deck. Hunter makes very nice decks and the wood has holes for all the bits on the plastic kit deck. They also give you real chain to replace the plastic models molded chain. Good luck and good hunting

My very first ship was a 1/700 USS Missouri with PE, and those PE railings almost drove me to insanity, but the end result looked pretty nice along with the rough diorama I built for it, good luck on those kits!

Please do more video on this subject. Laughted my ass off in seeing you frustrated like everyone i know in this hobby.

On the deck and photo etch there are two ways to do it; 1) use the sprue cutter to snip off the deck projections and then file of what little remains or 2) get a Dremel and grind of the projections. Both methods work fairly well, but the first method leaves less to grind/file and thus is less messy/dusty. Use a face mask when grinding though. Also, you'll find that many of the super detail sets are all photo etch, so if you think track pads are bad wait til you try to build an all photo etch AA gun! In the future look for detail sets that include resin or 3D printed AA guns.

You'll get back very fast and I know you will be having fun. I have gone thru the same and trust me, the skill doesn't get lost. You just have to learn the new techniques for things you haven't done

A fair point is made in the video. Spend a few extra dollars on that Tamiya kit or other high end plastic. They fit better, require less filler and sanding, and keep you actually building and painting.

I liked building them, and have built dozens. Started in the late '60s. In hindsight it was mostly educational. Things like where are the hatches? Which way do they open? How far can the gun elevat/depress? How did the wings fold and landing gear retract? You know, things like that. Built a model M60A1 and superdetailed it (meaning kitbashed) the interior Breach, turret floor, seating, etc. sights (ever seen a Norden tank sight or a 60 with a Ferrari engine?[hey, its a twelve cylinder too and the 24/35 scale conversions made it fit-ish]) and hid a pearl and diamond necklace inside it. Then sent it to a girl I knew who lived in Chicago (I was stationed in Erlangen W. Germany) under the guise of "now you will know what I am talking about when telling tank stories." The best kit I ever built was the 80's Testors/Italieri M47 kit. Track was PERFECTLY molded with gaps between the blocks and the center guides and end connectors in the proper place in relation to the blocks. flexible and one piece each. An idea-- bribe your kids to build the track FOR you! Once, again in the 80's, we were doing an aircraft ID class and the NCO accidentally had let a F105 Thunderchief in the slide show. I ID-ed it right away. EVERYONE was shocked including the officers. I simply said "Hey I built one as a model once." Most were brush painted and did not look GREAT but the assemblies and size ratios were right. Like I said, educational.

I find it hilarious that tankers have the same attitude towards changing track pads as I have towards cleaning my keyboard.

Well I was thinking about getting into it. Thanks for giving the insight on it. I will find something else to do now.

Small drawn leather tools that are like cheese knives are great for getting started on removing surface details like the rails on that deck. Also you can re-purpose a two-rail tile cutter as a shim-adjustable-height router platform for dremels and other special equipment like record-player-motor sanding wheels.

Welcome to the new modeling world!! Great vid BTW!

The brand you need is "HengLong". They make highly detailed 1/16 RC model tanks (already built). All you do is control them around the lounge room (entombment room) attacking the cat and the dog.

The look on your face as you recall the number of M1 track links is priceless.

So there's the people who build scale models, and then there are the people like me who go from build scale models to designing scale models. Its so much fun. Speaking of, Chieftain, I finally finished designing that T49 model I told you about a few years ago. It actually prints!

I feel your pain. By the time I left for College I had 208 1/72 scale airplanes from the second world war. Those were the 3rd generation of most of the aircraft. I started about age 8. back then the kits were only 50 cents I remember the B17 being 2.00 so I had to save for a couple of weeks to get it. By the time I had gotten to gen 3 I had finally gotten an airbrush and was starting to become particular as to paint schemes. Sadly my parents placed all the planes in boxes stacked upon each other and I was only able to salvage a few. I do however still have over 26 aircraft yet to be built and 5 or 10 that are partially built. I got to picky as to exactly what you are discussing being super detailed. Good luck and don't give up, even tracks can be relaxing if you let them. I'm just now in my 6th decade and starting to get back into obtaining my kit to start a new building program. At least now they have the reference manuals that let you see the paint schemes to paint them by.

Glad to know you are a Plastaholic too. I have hundreds of models. Right now I am working on a M8A1 in 1/35 scale.

I am retired, 70 years old, and still trying to build plastic model kits. I enjoy a good challenge now and then, and sometimes PE can be nice, but lately it has become too stressful. Some days I feel like throwing it all away...the kits in my stash, all the models I have on display, all the tools, paints etc. No matter how much I try I cannot get past being in that horrible intermediant level of experience. Sometimes I will purposely build a simple, cheap kit for pure fun without the stress involved of PE parts, having to use tweezers etc. Then I made the mistake of trying to start a channel on You Tube...I found out that I cannot handle it mentally. Too many nasty commenters, and too many builders that make my stuff look like garbage.