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 Thank you very much for
visiting Doctor Ben’s Scale Consortium . All of
these products are created directly from the workbench of NMRA National
Award
Winning Dioramas by Richard E. (Ben) Bendever. I have used these products and
techniques for all the years that I
have cherished building scale model
dioramas. And now I share my deepest modeling secrets with you. I hope that you
will find them as helpful and useful as I have for these past years.
Doctor Ben’s Handy Blade Tools #5720 & #5721
 While I am creating much
of the modeling that I do from day to day, I seem to always have a
single edge
razor blade in my hand. As humans, we are creatures of habit and we are all
drawn to what feels natural & comfortable to us. I will state that yes, I do use Xacto© knifes &
blades, but the tips seem to always break off and they are so
darn expensive. How many tiles while you are sitting at your workbench & the Xacto© knife either slips out of your hand or rolls off of your bench because
you’ve bumped it making space for something else? I’ve been very fortunate to
never be “stabbed” by the
knife on the way down, but I have heard some real
horror stories!
So, as I initially stated, I’m always using a
single edge razor blade for much of my scale modeling. This too is a problem for
me in that I break out a brand new razor blade to use it once or twice & it
disappears into the clutter of my workbench and so I break out still another new
single edge razor blade. When I finally get disgusted enough to clean up my
workbench, well, you get the story, I have a plethora of open single edge razor
blades from by bad
 modeling practices.
Which is why we offer
these Handy Blade Tools with plastic & metal blades in many neon colors-one for
each day of the week if
necessary. For me, I remember colors and numbers, but not faces. I’ll remember
which color Handy Blade tool has the cleanest & sharpest blade and which one
that I’ve been using to carve dental stone. Have fun & tell you friends about
this great tool!
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