What has taken so much of my time is that I am building a Vintage Vehicles Erie B-2 steam shovel kit which will be modified to have a grab bucket instead of the shovel. Vintage Vehicles apparently stopped production of their models about 1994, but sold the steam shovel kit to Jordan (which I have heard is now out of business). There are a lot of parts to this plastic kit and I found out the hard way that my Plastruct liquid glue does not hold well on it so I changed to other glues. This shovel will be placed in the scrap yard to move scrap around.
Below is a photo of some wood strips I picked up at Walmart (they have a craft aisle). They are called "skinny sticks" and are about 6 inches long and 1/4" x 3/16" with 75 pieces in the pack - cost less than a dollar as I recall. They are great for bracing the inside of structures. All sticks are straight unlike the craft sticks (I refer to them as popsicle sticks) many of which are warped.
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