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I direct new readers to study the following kit-assembly and model building pieces of mine at the CultTVman site:
This stuff may give you the incentive to get back to some abandoned projects and perhaps to start more ambitious jobs as well. These
articles also serve as prolog to the FS-1 piece. The above also gives you a firm grounding as to the terms and practices I employ.
There is so much dated and out-and-out bad information out there in print and on the Net. I, and a precious few other talented authors,
offer you direction and purpose. With direction and purpose you will experience clarity; you will KNOW what is right. You will know what is WRONG. The achievement of clarity will lift the fog of indecisiveness and
uncertainty. With direction and purpose, you can't help but become a better student of the Craft.
(Never accept the falsehood, 'there are many acceptable ways to achieve the same objective'. Wrong! This old saw is perpetrated by amateurs
who don't know the craft well enough to teach - those who accept the tenant, 'good enough for me'. Never build for yourself. Always build for the most critical audience you can imagine. Strive to the very limit of
your ability, then experiment and expand your ability. Grow!)
The above articles touch on many of the techniques and materials that will be covered here. Though those articles are not FS-1 specific,
they do demonstrate an important principle: That, for a given substrate, structural load, temperature environment, overcoat chemistry, and other factors, there exists only one or two 'right' techniques for the given
situation, i.e. there are, say, ten ways to fill a seam, but only one correct way of doing it.
Experience is the Teacher who tells us what is the right technique and material to chose for a task. Methodology is the General who sets up
the order of battle, the what-part-goes-where-when-and-how.
Each installment will have a 'lessons learned' section, to identify what went right and what went wrong as to the method and materials
selected for the specific operations covered in that discussion. I'll endeavor to make this critique as critical and useful as possible. Critical evaluation and the recording and learning of findings are the stuff
of Experience. I'll tell you want not to do as well as what to do. If you're smart, you'll profit from these observations as well.
And I'll close the next installments with a 'teaser'. A preview of the next installment of this article, thereby putting the current
discussion into context.
onto part 3 Research
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