Accessories
The kit gives you the plastic; this range gives you the means to shape it and the space to do it in. Cutting and trimming fall to the tools for modelling, while cutting mats, paint palettes and workstations keep the workspace in order around them.
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How many model making tools do you need?
Two, honestly. Something to take parts off the sprue without tearing them, and something abrasive to tidy up what the sprue leaves behind. The rest arrives one problem at a time: tweezers when a small part disappears into the carpet, clamps when two halves refuse to sit still long enough for plastic model adhesive to work, a pin vice when you want a hole the mould never gave you. A tool kit for model making holds the common ones from the start.
Cutting mats, paint palettes and workstations
The rest of this range works on the space around the build, not the kit itself: a cutting mat to work over, a paint palette to thin and mix Humbrol acrylic paint on, a workstation to keep parts, tools and paints together between sessions. Paint, modelling brushes and glue sit across in paints and weathering; display stands and decal sheets have a section of their own.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do modellers use a cutting mat?
Nothing about a kit demands one, but the table survives and the blade gets a flat surface with a little give in it instead of one it can skid across. Self-healing mats close up behind the knife, so the surface stays usable long after the cuts stop showing. The printed squares earn their keep when you need two parts lined up or a strip cut straight.
What do you use a paint palette for?
Mixing and thinning, in small amounts. A few drops on a palette let you adjust a shade, thin it for a wash, or leave it tacky for dry brushing, and none of it touches what is left in the bottle. It also keeps a loaded brush out of fresh paint, which is how a bottle turns cloudy long before it runs out.
Where does a part-built kit live between sessions?
On a workstation, if the build runs past one sitting. The value is that everything stays where you left it: parts still on their sprue, the colours you had open, the tools within reach. Plenty of builds stall because the pieces got tidied away, not because the modelling got hard. A starter set needs nothing of the sort; a kit you come back to across a fortnight does.