Styrene

Styrene

Monday, March 31, 2014

Modeling and Advanced Physics

Modeling and advanced physics
By Professor Neurus, U.N.T.

As many modelers have noticed, resin detail parts have a tendency not to fit where they are supposed to. Particularly annoying are cockpit and wheel wells inserts which invariably are bigger than the space they should occupy, in flagrant contradiction with the dictum that states that two bodies can't occupy the same space at the same time.
A strange phenomena has been observed for years, but just very recently clarified and given a name by a modeler from Rancho Palos Verdes, California: the Sanding Event Horizon. This denomination applies to that particular instance that is reached at certain point during the sanding procedure: you measure the part and it is too big, therefore you sand a bit, still the part won't fit; you sand more, still far from ideal; you keep very carefully sanding quantum amounts of resin (or sometimes plastic, or wood, or whatever you use in your modelling endeavors) and after innumerable repetitions and dry-fittings, you try once more and the part is still too big. At this time, aware of the known and proven treacherous and unpredictable behavior of modeling components, materials, tools and the like, you carefully sand away a few more molecules, or even atoms. At this point, something strange happens at the level of sub-atomic particles and suddenly you reach the Sanding Event Horizon, and  the part is inexplicably too small, therefore is now rattling around instead of snuggly fitting in the space where it should go, exactly the same way matter, in reaching the event horizon of a black hole, is irreversibly sucked in and can't go back. The scholars are now turning their attention to related phenomena, like the (self explanatory) Glue Amount Event Horizon and the I Should Push a Bit Harder Event Horizon -that caused so many fingers to be temporarily immolated on the altar of Styrene, the Greek Goddess of Model-making-.

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