Scratch building
As scratching or Scratchbau (English: Scratch building ) refers to the equity or reconstruction of a model in which, unlike the model will not resort to ready-made parts, but the corresponding parts itself is made of different materials. Scratch building is often practiced as a hobby, similar to pure model making.
General
In scratch building, mostly the same standards are used as in model building. In most cases, inexpensive and easy to process materials are used so as not to complicate the manufacture of the individual parts. You can do scratch building as 100% (or full scratch). The model is created from scratch without any existing parts. However, you can also only scratch a few parts, be it when improving a kit.
origin
The "scratch building" or "scratching" for short in model making comes from the Anglo-Saxon (from scratch = from scratch / from scratch / from nowhere / from the very beginning / from scratch) and means here the (colorful) "thrown together" Model created from the simplest parts or raw material.
Manufacturing
When making a scratch-built model, section drawings, cracks, detailed photos and technical information about details are primarily used. Experienced hobbyists can sometimes be satisfied with just photos, which, however, does not do justice to the detail of the model, since reference dimensions can only be reliably calculated from sectional drawings. The main materials used are a wide variety of plastics , various metals , paper and cardboard . Scratch construction using various plastics is more common than scratch construction using paper, which can hardly be found.
literature
- Rich Uravitch: Scratch-Building R / C Airplanes , Air Age Verlag, 1991, ISBN 0911295186