Modeling in General
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ladymodelbuilder
Member Since: February 26, 2002
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 05:23 AM UTC
Ok fellows, Use unscented hairspray to hold down all the little loose leaves and such on dios. It really works great! Buy the hairspray in the pump though.
Kencelot
Member Since: December 27, 2001
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 05:31 AM UTC
Because of another post here, I was reminded of the use of tissues, for all sorts of things: tarps, bedrolls, bags, wipeing tears away when parts fly across the room...
herberta
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 05:53 AM UTC
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wipeing tears away when parts fly across the room...
...or dabbing at the wounds from the xacto knife...
...or to quickly mop up the paint you spilled on the rug...
...or to stuff into an open topped vehicle before spraying...
...or for making a nice texture on sandbags (if you're lucky)...
Stir sticks from all those cups of coffee are wonderful tools. And, sometimes if you spend way too much for coffee, they have wooden ones to use for fences, spare lumber, stirring paint, transferring putty to a base etc.
The local hobby shop gives out free modelling supplies in the form of napkins and stir sticks!
ChrisCarney
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 05:54 AM UTC
Yeah, I really hate when your tiny parts take an aeronautical rotation onto a carpet that is just about the same color as they are. Happens to me all the time. That's when you get down and do the hand sweep thing. Hoping they fly up and you see where it lands. Chris. 
herberta
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 05:55 AM UTC
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That's when you get down and do the hand sweep thing. Hoping they fly up and you see where it lands.
which is another time you need a tissue, because the little piece of PE will stick into your palm, and after you remove a penetrating object it's time to staunch some bleeding...
cfbush2000
Member Since: December 01, 2001
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 06:46 AM UTC
I use poster putty to hold parts in place on a temporary basis. The cargo in the bed of my Steyr Tractor is held in place with tiny bits of poster putty.
Chappy_ju87
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 10:21 AM UTC
How about an old piece of glass from one of those glass topped coffee tables.....works great for cutting PE parts. I have a piece running the whole length of my bench. When you spill paint on it, just wipe up what you can and use a razor blade to clean it all off when it is dry. 
AndersHeintz
Member Since: March 05, 2002
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 10:43 AM UTC
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That's when you get down and do the hand sweep thing. Hoping they fly up and you see where it lands.
That remids me of something. I used to model in a room with a wooden floor, . . . I got really good at listening to where the parts would bounce too and find them!! Don't have that luxury now
BillyBishop
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 11:09 AM UTC
Another use for wifes old pantyhose is to strain paint, also sandwich bags over recipe card for paint pallet. Hmm a neat one was the small pieces of carbon/plastic found in used plastic brita water filters for rivets
MSW
MSW
Kencelot
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 11:16 AM UTC
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I used to model in a room with a wooden floor, . . . I got really good at listening to where the parts would bounce too and find them!! Don't have that luxury now
I read this and thought - "hmmm...he must have a carpet now...and to think, carpets were once thought of as "luxuries". Wonders never cease.
Another thing I just had to add to this ever growing list...the PC! Who here would have ever thought 15 years ago (that's about when I drifted away from this hobby) we would be using the computer for modeling? An indispensible tool on everyone's workbench today...well almost.
This is cool stuff!
TheGame
Member Since: February 25, 2002
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 12:58 PM UTC
I'm still too new to have any different ideas.
I just use everyone else's ideas I read here .
I'll be sending you all royalty checks next month
I just use everyone else's ideas I read here .
I'll be sending you all royalty checks next month
YodaMan
Member Since: February 21, 2002
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 08:37 PM UTC
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I'll be sending you all royalty checks next month
I also accept credit cards. Or, just send me a few armor models (maybe Fine Molds X-wing)......LOL
I do agree with Kenc. When I first started looking on the net, I was hoping to find maybe two or three sites that had to to with modelbuilding. Wrong!!! I had no idea there was so much modeling stuff on the web. Invaluble references, kit reviews, tutorials, painting tips, and of course, forums!
YodaMan
Ranger74
Member Since: April 04, 2002
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2002 - 08:48 PM UTC
Someone may have mentioned this already, but this tread is getting long: My wife brought home from the fabric store some scraps of wedding vale. It is stiffer than medical gauze and has a smaller weave making it great for screens for various applications. Only problem is that you have to gut around on the flowers in teh pattern
ChrisCarney
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Posted: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 01:56 AM UTC
I use industrial cheese cloth for my camo nets. It's threads are spaced a little farther apart than your typical medical bandages or cheese cloth like we use at work for screening out metal particals from the oil in gear boxes. It's ideal for 1/35th scale dioramas. Chris. 
penpen
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Posted: Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:35 PM UTC
To represent high grass I cut the "straw" off my broom !
Of course, I choose a very cheap and natural one...
At work, in the washrooms, I've found paper tissues that are
rather thick and with some kind of very fine "drawings".
Now, as soon I try representing the inside of a house, I'll be using
this for the paper on the wall ! But well, that's only a far off project...
penpen
Of course, I choose a very cheap and natural one...
At work, in the washrooms, I've found paper tissues that are
rather thick and with some kind of very fine "drawings".
Now, as soon I try representing the inside of a house, I'll be using
this for the paper on the wall ! But well, that's only a far off project...
penpen
pipesmoker
Member Since: January 31, 2002
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Posted: Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:43 PM UTC
Her's one for figure painting.
Find out if you have any bakers supply stores in your area. They have an item called a "flower nail". Cake decorators use these for making those fancy flowers you see on wedding cakes. This consists of a chrome plated nail with a c/p disk welded on top. Kind of like a little metal umbrella. the disk is about 1" diameter. Stick your figure on top with a little blue tack. Makes the figure easy to handle, you can rotate it for easy apinting, and the whole thing can be stuck into a block of styrofoam for drying. While you are in the same store, take a look at the "icing spatulas". They whould have small ones that are cheaper than the pallette knives you by at a craft store for oil paints.
Find out if you have any bakers supply stores in your area. They have an item called a "flower nail". Cake decorators use these for making those fancy flowers you see on wedding cakes. This consists of a chrome plated nail with a c/p disk welded on top. Kind of like a little metal umbrella. the disk is about 1" diameter. Stick your figure on top with a little blue tack. Makes the figure easy to handle, you can rotate it for easy apinting, and the whole thing can be stuck into a block of styrofoam for drying. While you are in the same store, take a look at the "icing spatulas". They whould have small ones that are cheaper than the pallette knives you by at a craft store for oil paints.
herberta
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Posted: Friday, April 12, 2002 - 04:13 AM UTC
Wow!
That's a good one Ron!
Thanks!
That's a good one Ron!
Thanks!
BobTavis
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Posted: Friday, April 12, 2002 - 04:43 AM UTC
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Yeah, I really hate when your tiny parts take an aeronautical rotation onto a carpet that is just about the same color as they are. Happens to me all the time. That's when you get down and do the hand sweep thing. Hoping they fly up and you see where it lands. Chris.
Ah, there is a solution so it never happens again. Place the sprue part on low tack tape so when you cut it the part does not sail into oblivion.
If it does fall on the floor I use one of these clothes cleaning tack rollers to pick them up. Just scoot acorss the floor where you think the part landed and "presto" it is encrusted on the roller with dirt, hair, fingernail clippings, etc. If your wife/girlfriend says you spend too much time modeling just tell her that you cleaned the rug for her!
YodaMan
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Posted: Friday, April 12, 2002 - 04:54 AM UTC
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If it does fall on the floor I use one of these clothes cleaning tack rollers to pick them up. Just scoot acorss the floor where you think the part landed and "presto" it is encrusted on the roller with dirt, hair, fingernail clippings, etc. If your wife/girlfriend says you spend too much time modeling just tell her that you cleaned the rug for her!
You know, that might just work!
I've always been annoyed at how easily my jars of paint became disorganized and hard to find the one I'm looking for. So, I cut a piece of cardboard to use as a base; Then I cut strips of cardboard about 1 inch high and as long as the base, and glued them to the base in rows. Viola'! A paint jar organizer! My next version will have different levels so I can see the labels.
YodaMan
Envar
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Posted: Friday, April 12, 2002 - 04:56 AM UTC
My wife has got a long hair. Ideal for antenna wires. Some 0.06mm in thickness.
Once I even thanked her for the usefulness of her hair. She thought I was teasing her.
And the next thing I borrowed was her pantyhose...
Toni
Once I even thanked her for the usefulness of her hair. She thought I was teasing her.
And the next thing I borrowed was her pantyhose...
Toni
herberta
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Posted: Friday, April 12, 2002 - 05:05 AM UTC
Speaking of hair...
We have a pug. Pug whiskers fall out, and are perfect antennae assuming they aren't thost really bent whiskers.
I've heard of folks using cat whiskers too, but DON'T shave your cat for that purpose. I KNOW you may want to :-) but that messes up their senses big time!
We have a pug. Pug whiskers fall out, and are perfect antennae assuming they aren't thost really bent whiskers.
I've heard of folks using cat whiskers too, but DON'T shave your cat for that purpose. I KNOW you may want to :-) but that messes up their senses big time!
GunTruck
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Posted: Friday, April 12, 2002 - 07:47 AM UTC
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I've heard of folks using cat whiskers too, but DON'T shave your cat for that purpose. I KNOW you may want to :-) but that messes up their senses big time!
Hmmm, here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty...
Gunnie
CaptainJack
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Posted: Friday, April 12, 2002 - 07:55 AM UTC
We're talking bald wives and whiskerless pussycats here! Seriously I think fine grade steel wire is excellent it doesn't crimp, or burn. toni your wife must be getting a little paranoid. Has she started hiding her shoes yet? Ha ha Jack Kippies
pipesmoker
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Posted: Friday, April 12, 2002 - 09:55 AM UTC
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Hmmm, here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty...
Hey Gunnie,
Do you remember the old TV show called "Alf"? LOL!
Ranger74
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Posted: Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 12:13 AM UTC
Captain Jack:
Steel wool will burn But it takes a battery to do it. I learned to start a fire with a steel wool pad and a D-cell battery. Stretch out the pad, touch an end to each end of the battery, but make sure you are close to the stuff you want to burn, because the steel wool will burst into flames!!!! Sometime else useful I learned in the Boy Scouts :-)
Steel wool will burn
But it takes a battery to do it. I learned to start a fire with a steel wool pad and a D-cell battery. Stretch out the pad, touch an end to each end of the battery, but make sure you are close to the stuff you want to burn, because the steel wool will burst into flames!!!! Sometime else useful I learned in the Boy Scouts :-) 
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