Oh, thank you.
You're making me feel embarrassed.
Michel-C.

. . . . . . . 😌 Good thing you can't see how I've blushed slightly.

Michel c
On Belgique on dit j’ôte ma casquette. Toi tu es formidable avec ton impromante 3D
In Belgium we say i take my hat off.
I m more than impressed with people who can fiddle around with a 3D printer . Only one word whah

Hi Mike, welcome back from me.
Nice to hear from you again.
Right to modeling, eh? Great job.

Hello everyone,
Finally back home, a warm hello to all of you out there!
No sooner had I arrived home than I started drawing and laser cutting my vacation ideas.
Here is my latest scriber and marker for ship hulls.
If you can afford a metal scriber, that's fine. But here they are extremely expensive.
My comment made me smile, but that soon disappeared.
You can get something like this from the Chinese too, but I suspect that the quality of their wood isn't perfect, more like bamboo. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
See for yourselves...
You are the best with all your tips and ideas!
I would like to thank you for that...
Yours, Michel-C., full of enthusiasm

Hi Roy, I'm responding to your concerns about the content of the messages and the topic of the thread.
If I translated your opening sentence correctly:
"Sorry, you're losing me on this thread. The heading is tools and equipment," you're wondering why we switched from tools to materials.

Let me explain.
The topic is actually "The tools/equipment of the ship modeler."
Initially, I wanted to know which tools you think are most useful for ship modeling.
I also asked if, in your opinion, it was possible to build an entire model with just three tools (in which case, I wanted to know which), or with five or seven.
Finally, what was your ideal complete kit?
For example, I maintain that with just three tools it's possible to build an entire model, but not design it, and as long as it's a complete kit of a static RC model.
I won't repeat all the content of the messages here (just reread them if you want to understand), but there were some very interesting, albeit conflicting, opinions.
We then added a list of tools for dynamic RC modeling.
However (note here, this is the crux of my explanation), right from the first messages, some participants included materials in addition to tools and utensils.
I didn't scold them for going off-topic (I never do because I think it's rude and impolite to do so, and because I don't consider digressions to be a negative thing in a forum), but I promised myself I'd address the topic of materials separately, at the end.
Instead of opening a separate topic, I placed it at the end of this one, but I did make one clarification.
In fact, I wrote at the beginning of my last message: "To complete the overall picture, instead of creating a separate topic, we could create a sort of spin-off on the materials used by naval modelers."
Rereading the entire topic, I still find the content of the messages very interesting.
I hope I've clarified the reason for the digression, and thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Hi Lew
You got it I one, it is to hold the commectors while soldering. A really great tool

Regards
Ed

EdW, I'm guessing it has to do with electrical (battery power) connections. I recognize the series of letters and numbers.
Lew

Hi Lew
I agree with you and Roy. There is a distinct difference between tools and materials.

Here is an unusual one for the members to guess that it is used for.

I am also lost on the object of this thread. There are so many different tools that can be used to build models. These can vary by the type of model from a basic plastic kit requiring only a few tools to a large multi material model and scratch builds requiring power tools like saws, a drill press, and possibly a lathe.

A lot of stuff suggested are materials used to as parts of models, not really "tools/equipment ".

Common sense is probably the only tool that needs to be suggested. Perhaps a more logical thread would be something like "do you have any unusual tools to build your models".

Lew

Sorry you are losing me on this thread. The heading is tools and equipment. Essentially these items will be put back in the tool box after a model is completed.

Most of the list is stores that gradually get used up as various models are built. These are accumulated as other models are built. So the accumulated items will depend on what you build.

Most tools have been mentioned, but perhaps not knife blades, I do not discard them but re-sharpen on an oil stone. I often have half an hour of sharpening blades and it is most rewarding. I have not bought cutting blades for nearly 20 years.
I store them in large jam jars sharp end down buried in hard packing foam. They are the X-Acto type and surgical knives and the ubiquitous Stanley knife, these blades sharpen very well.

There are speciality tools like a small variable angle guillotine with a razor blade cutting edge, it takes up space but excellent when cutting and laying planks on a deck

Many of the tools we use in wood and plastic modelling only need holes up to 3 or 4mm diameter and a vertical drill is useful. I have never needed big engineering tools for models although I have done courses to operate them. When necessary I have a good friend that has a workshop just 10 minutes away by car who obliges!

Roy