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The real life, physical experience may still be available. >using tools to snip them off the plastic sprues, then connecting, painting, and even stickering the

The real life, physical experience may still be available. >using tools to snip them off the plastic sprues, then connecting, painting, and even stickering them Used to do that as a kid, with model car kits bought at the local toy and hobby store.[0] >the kind of person who owns a soldering iron and wields it like a pro Spent the better part of a pre-teenage summer once assembling a Heathkit[1] multi-band radio receiver -- dozens if not hundreds of resistors and capacitors to solder! [0]https://www.revell.com/products/cars/ https://www.revell.com/products/cars/ [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit (the heathkit web site seems to be out of service at this time)

sitzkrieg 4y ago
plastic sprue kit building exists digitally too tho, the only thing missing is the glue and paint thinner smells https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164250/Model_Builder/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164250/Model_Builder/ on the heathkit note i got the same feeling a few years ago soldering a QRP+ kit up. comes as mostly bare pcb and 100s of through hole components. winding all of the tuning inductors by hand and about 6 hours of soldering later i had a working 5w cw rig https://qrp-labs.com/qcxp.html https://qrp-labs.com/qcxp.html