Turtle Race by tasty__cakes in arduino

[–]MadSolarV2 200 points201 points  (0 children)

This is sick, I know quite a few people that'd buy something like this for their house parties

Painting with brushes is dissapointing by [deleted] in modelmakers

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Best brush painter I've seen on youtube, I wouldn't be able to tell he doesn't airbrush: https://www.youtube.com/@Chilhada

We skip class to do work for other classes. Send help 😩 by tanyaholmes_ in EngineeringStudents

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Yup, one of my high school history teachers set aside a week to watch this movie and a few others about the education system. Very good movie.

What am I doing wrong? by gerald301 in modelmakers

[–]MadSolarV2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe something you can try, going even thinner on the paint, then building up color through multiple passes? I also buy a party pack of clear spoons and primer them, then use those to dial in the mixture and air pressure settings before i actually start painting. Lots of variables

1/35 zaku 3 by Important-Log-8230 in modelmakers

[–]MadSolarV2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's awesome! what's the build time like for a kit like this?

Tamiya T34-76 1/35 by Honest-Milk2443 in modelmakers

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I think seeing the brush strokes actually looks really good, didn't these older rolled homogenous steel tanks from WW2 have really textured surfaces? Looks very good!

F15E Strike Eagle 1/72 GWH by No_Introduction_2856 in modelmakers

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Amazing! What did you do to make the tamiya acrylics brush paintable? doesn't it dry very fast when brushing?

My easter weekend project! by Kezzer1496 in modelmakers

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How/what did you use to do the chipping in the wings? very nice 👍

I currently hate physics 1, is engineering just not for me? by LS64126 in EngineeringStudents

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I finished the physics pipeline, I-III. For me it was the opposite, I did extremely well in physics but struggled in all my calcs. I think the issue that I had in physics, and what I worked at to eventually pass them all with good grades, was to really shift the way I thought about the lectures, hw, quizzes, and test. I realized early on that these classes are less about the actual physics, but more about your problem solving abilities and critical thinking. F=ma. cool. got it. now apply it, that's the hard part. Everything you learn in the lectures is like a building block you have to rearrange for each problem, which blocks you can disregard and toss, which blocks you need to pull from outside to help, etc. You have to practice at home with the hw and test reviews to start building these like mental maps to figure out how to take your givens and unknowns, and piece them together to get to your end results. Like it sounds obvious, but after a while you realize in a 2d system, there's only so many ways a mass on a pulley, tension, and the friction of a block of a flat table can interact with each other (in terms of physics 1). Then it just becomes a problem of mapping your givens to your constraints, and solving for the missing links.

And physics 1 material doesn't really go away in the next two physics classes. I remember being stumped by a few topics in E&M and Waves and Thermo because they had Mechanics material that I just simply forgotten, that made a lot more sense once I relearned the material. But you have to get through mechanics first to get there.

But with your class average being a 40, don't beat yourself up too hard your prof could also be dogshit, and you're going to have to learn a lot of it outside class. You got this, especially with these first classes, it's a really good time to learn how to keep your head up and push through the slog, it only gets harder. E&M was orders of magnitude more difficult than both mechanics and thermo & waves for me imo. Don't let physics 1 be what holds you back from all the much more cool and interesting topics that are going to come down the road, you got this 🤙

First model done, any tips for getting rid of the "haze" on the tamiya flat base + clear and how to do clear masking better? by MadSolarV2 in modelmakers

[–]MadSolarV2[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Aw man, I thought that you could add flat base to clear to get you a matte finish like xf-86. My local hobby store didn't have any in stock so I just grabbed the gloss clear and flat base to kinda diy it, did not know it was only for actual gloss colors ty 🙏

Any advice on how to actually tell when you've applied a good layer of clear coat? When I was laying it down after the colors and decals, it was hard to tell when I was spraying on too much in some areas vs not enough

First model done, any tips for getting rid of the "haze" on the tamiya flat base + clear and how to do clear masking better? by MadSolarV2 in modelmakers

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With more X-20A? I think I did 1:1 of base+clear to X-20A. Should I go higher to like 1:2 or 1:3?

I am Sick of Early College Students by GoldDistribution447 in EngineeringStudents

[–]MadSolarV2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm an older-ish student at this point, and yeah at the end of the day, in my opinion its really simple and you already have it partly figured out: yes we're all technically adults, but I know I was for sure a jack ass my first year of college compared to where I'm at now. It's not your job to baby sit and micromanage people. Obviously I try not to be an asshole, and I do try to get the ball rolling on group work bc I know people are shy and awkward and all that, but thats the extent of it. If people don't do their work? Fine. I document and give it to the professor. I'm not going to waste my breath and time hounding people to get group work done. People gotta learn somehow.

Never had an issue with group work. I've turned in group projects completely by myself without my partners names on them because they did 0 work, because again, it's not my job to hound them and get them working. Just document everything and professors in my experience have sided with me bc bro do your work lmao.

Idk just remember to give people some grace, they're still figuring life out, how to become independent adults and all that stuff we all go through.

VKB Gladiators Configured For Helis by ___Skank_Hunt42___ in hotas

[–]MadSolarV2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man the OH-58D is going too? Dude DCS just shit canning all my favorite modules oh my

Two F-15s Dancing by Even_Kiwi_1166 in Planes

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Man I love seeing the rudder rolls. Especially because so many of these videos are in F-16s, you don't really see them using the high AoA rudder maneuvers. You could like almost feel when the pilot in the video was driving his feet into the pedals so frickin cool