Title
How To Organize Tutorials Offline

Author
Gregg1LE

Published
Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Sam saw my tutorials binder during my FP '53 Chevy Gasser WIP and asked if I could do a tutorial on it. It is an extremely easy project, so here goes.

I start binders on any large project I get involved with, either at work or at home. I found them very useful during the restoration of my now gone 1:1 1970 RS/SS 350 Camaro. I could amass a huge amount of information from either printed material or from the internet, organize the info into a binder, and then refer back to it when I got to certain points on the cars restoration.

When I discovered BMC in January 2006, the first thing I noticed was the HUGE reference of tips/techniques in the forums and in the tutorials. I almost immediately started printing off material I thought could help me, as I have been a car modeler, but never a very good one, since the late '60's.

As a firm believer in the KISS principle there are only four items required for this project:

1. A computer with printer,
2. a binder that's at least two inches thick (5.08 centimeters),
3. binder dividers,
4. printer paper, preferably the paper with the three holes already in it.





You can decorate the binder as you see fit. I bought a clear view binder in fluorescent green and just made a simple word page to identify it.

I used five dividers in the binder: Interior, Exterior (includes painting, which is my biggest challenge), Chassis, Engine, Everything Else (mostly airbrush info).





Next, simply print out the tutorials, threads or whatever you want to refence and put them with the appropriate divider.



Put them into the binder and you have a refence tool close at hand. That means no running back and forth to the computer when you want to reference something.







There are many other options that you could do to this binder to liven it up.