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    Perfect perpendicular?

    A small engineer's square with rubber bands or magnets ought to work. Once again, showing us what you are trying to join together will help inform an answer.
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    IMPS National Plastic Model Contest 2023 in San Marcus Texas

    My Texas experience was that IPMS tended to be, as others have said, clean builds of outstanding quality, but very vanilla ice cream. For the real models, you needed to go to an AMPS show. There was a club in Austin of which I was a member, the Austin Armor Builders Society. Lots of Armour...
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    What do you do with finished builds?

    Nothing to be ashamed of there. That is a great collection of excellent models.
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    Pin wash question

    Pantherman; Sepia's I find give better results than black. As others have said, blacks can be quite stark, and dirt is the general colour, even with oil leaks and such they gum up with dirt and grit. Hope that helps. I know I got here late.
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    Tamiya Mk.5 Chieftain

    That's really nice mate. Well done.
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    1:48 Tamiya F-14A - V33 Starfighters

    If that's your first aircraft, you've pulled it off exceptionally well. Mine never looked that good. Which is why I gave them up. Almost...
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    Well I finally did it!!

    As someone who suffers from the same issue, it does get better. My advice is: See your GP first, get a referral if need be See a specialist, who should get you to have it X-Rayed and get an Ultra-Sound Then you can work with the GP/Specialist and a physio to arrange exercises to resolve the...
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    What do you get when you cross a ................. (Warning This thread may contain graphic images of a Kit Bash)

    I'm unsure as to the droid height. I 'feel' that it might be higher than I would have it. However, having said that. with the droid figure in white, it is hard to judge. In the image below R2-D2 doesn't seem to be as high as your droid figure. Not sure I've been a help though.
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    Classic MPC C-3PO and R2-D2 uber detail build: Completed!

    As I look at the posts, all the images are red x's. What am I doing wrong?
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    Snowspeeder in progress

    That's perfect. Great work.
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    Marvel Crisis Protocol

    They are all awesome! Well done. I am in the process of teaching myself to paint my son's Warhammer 40K. He's lost interest in them, but they are cool and I'm slowly improving my technique to be able to paint them to a decent standard for him for his High School Graduation at the end of the...
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    What kind of base should I use for my diorama?

    It depends on what you are looking for: Fome-Cor uses outer faces (of different materials) and a polystyrene core (I've built large scale, complex 3D, micro layouts with it for photo dioramas) XPS (Expanded Polystyrene) board is another option. You'll need to do a local search for suppliers...
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    Should I just build dioramas?

    Stephan; Micro railway layouts are a thing now. Especially, in the small scales, there are many opportunities to not only build and base your models but have trains running through those dioramas also. A google search (use the link) Google Image Search (Micro Layout) will give you some ideas...
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    What kind of base should I use for my diorama?

    Foamboard works. more information for you here: https://www.foamboards.com.au/What-is-Foam-Board Hope that helps.
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