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Summary: Lighting is crucial for adding details to scale models. Learn about appropriate lighting for your workspace when building a workspace for making remote controlled models in this free video from a model-making expert.
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Curtis Enlow Curtis Enlow has played, studied or worked in aviation and aerospace since he was five years old. He has worked flight lines in support of commercial, milita... read more
Hi, my name is Curtis Enlow and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to plan, set up and equip a work area for radio control models. Now, another consideration that you must have when setting up a workspace for working on RC models is appropriate lighting. Even if you have an overhead light you really want something that is going to be a really more direct and a little better illumination. Something like this for example, has a lot of very small parts, a lot of close tolerances so you need good light to see what you are doing. One thing I would highly recommend is a swing arm lamb, swing arm lamb like this one, this one has a built in magnifying glass which is a huge advantage because a lot of RC models have very small parts. So you're going to want to see what you are doing without straining your eyes. Now, if you are innovative you can find lighting you can use uh use various lambs, just about anything. I found this light at an office furniture outlet; they have like stacks of these things used for just few dollars each. And that comes in handy when I need fuel life or something. Uh, so you really want to have good lighting, uh and uh with a nice disbursed illumination, you don't want harsh lighting that can be hard on your eyes.