Biskup
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Many of us have quite big collection of kit’s that are waiting to be made and in many case the number of kits to be maid is greater then the number of made kits. Lack of time that most of us can spend on modeling. That’s why we want to use this time more efficiently. But during painting after applying one color or one layer of paint we need to put the model aside for the paint to fully dry. That prevents us from working any more on this kit for some time.
Way of eliminating this is to use a drier for model kits. First time I saw this machine was in Plamo Tsukurou modeling series, in which the speed that the modelers presented there make their kits is outrages. After some research I found the drier that was presented there but the cost of it was really high plus I would need to add shipping charge and cost of transformer as it’s prepared for different voltage.
So I did some searching for something equally good I have found that some modelers use driers for fruits and vegetables. In the market there are many types of those dries some of them have temperature control some of them don’t. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the one with the control that would be available in Poland. But after consulting a forum friend I decided to by Zelmer 36Z011. This model has two settings normal one and the strong one. Normal mode gives you temperature of 30 degrees Celsius and the strong one gives 45 degrees Celsius. For safety I decided to test it on many modeling material like different types of plastic, white metal, resin and Styrofoam. I left it inside for 4 hours on strong setting. After that amount of time I found no misshaped element or damaged in any way.
So after this test I was sure that this is a safe way to Speer up drying process. People how want to put inside bigger or taller elements can either cut out the net from one of the trays or like me make a tall ring out of polycarbonate or Plexiglas.
Its worth to remember that rising drying temperature by 10 degrease Celsius cut’s the drying time in half. Thanks to equipment like this we can use our hobby time more efficiently.
If you have any questions feel free to ask on PM or e-mail (Biskup_ziolek@wp.pl)
Cheers
Lukasz Ziolkowski
Way of eliminating this is to use a drier for model kits. First time I saw this machine was in Plamo Tsukurou modeling series, in which the speed that the modelers presented there make their kits is outrages. After some research I found the drier that was presented there but the cost of it was really high plus I would need to add shipping charge and cost of transformer as it’s prepared for different voltage.
So I did some searching for something equally good I have found that some modelers use driers for fruits and vegetables. In the market there are many types of those dries some of them have temperature control some of them don’t. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the one with the control that would be available in Poland. But after consulting a forum friend I decided to by Zelmer 36Z011. This model has two settings normal one and the strong one. Normal mode gives you temperature of 30 degrees Celsius and the strong one gives 45 degrees Celsius. For safety I decided to test it on many modeling material like different types of plastic, white metal, resin and Styrofoam. I left it inside for 4 hours on strong setting. After that amount of time I found no misshaped element or damaged in any way.

So after this test I was sure that this is a safe way to Speer up drying process. People how want to put inside bigger or taller elements can either cut out the net from one of the trays or like me make a tall ring out of polycarbonate or Plexiglas.

Its worth to remember that rising drying temperature by 10 degrease Celsius cut’s the drying time in half. Thanks to equipment like this we can use our hobby time more efficiently.
If you have any questions feel free to ask on PM or e-mail (Biskup_ziolek@wp.pl)
Cheers
Lukasz Ziolkowski