Bench Time Podcast #102: Hobby Knife Rant, Balsa Wood Laughs, and More!

Clearing the air first, we will not take the intro songs out of the podcast. It’s only like 12-15 seconds of the 1+ hour podcast and it’s just fun to put some different and zany intro tracks in for each week Fine Scale Bullhorn Announcements: George is currently building his kit from RailroadKits.com and plans on sharing his progress on his build. George Sellios is going to be having an open house on Black Friday to view the Franklin & South Manchester layout. Contact us if you want additional info at [email protected] if you’re interested in going! Eli N. has been emailing us a TON of cool small tips, and we’ll be sharing them very soon, so keep checking back to our site for those! Banta Model Works (sent to us from Nathan Kline)  is producing some kits for the East Broadtop Railroad Kits. You can check out their new stuff here: http://broadtopmountainmodels.com/index.html If you want to submit any fine-scale modeling news to the Fine Scale Bullhorn segment, email us at [email protected] or send us a message on our facebook page. Todd then rants about breaking and snapping hobby knife blades, which takes up about 10 more minutes than it should… But we enjoy stepping onto our soapboxes from time to time and this topic is something that we’ve all had problems with. Here’s the link to the 100 pack of #11 brand name blades we were talking about: https://amzn.to/35pvWnu (affiliate link) AND if you’re feeling lucky, here’s the off-brand 140 pack for half the price: https://amzn.to/2KYvi91 (affiliate link) After Todd’s little rant about hobby knife blades, we cover what we’re currently working on, including the Sassen Vinegar Works build, the FOS Yard Office and Palzer’s Plumbing from Mine Mount Models. We then get into our Patron questions/topics for the week and cover things from how we design and assemble scratch-builds, to how we deal with breaking walks and mess-ups during our builds.  Oh yeah… And please don’t build with balsa wood…. From our balsa wood rant. And for our balsa wood rant, you can check out the info on Balsa here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochroma  And you can take a walk down memory lane with a balsa wood airplane kit! https://amzn.to/2OD5Gze (shameless affiliate link) Story on the Disney bridge accident: https://ktla.com/2019/11/11/disneylands-tarzan-treehouse-briefly-closed-after-visitor-apparently-jumps-on-bridge-snaps-plank/ If you want to be able to submit patron-only topics, join our patron-exclusive facebook page, as well as support our efforts for this podcast, you can head over to https://patreon.com/hoscalecustoms and join in on the fun!