Picked up a nice Faberware ceramic blade today, and test cuts on some foam scrap went AWESOMELY well!Kylwell wrote: Handy trick, ceramic blades don't need wax to get them to cut smoothly through foam.
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- Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:28 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Carving a prototype
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17042
- Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:26 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Carving a prototype
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17042
Re: Carving a prototype
Working on a project that needs a piece roughly the size of a pack of cigs. What I want to do, since it's a fairly simple shape is cut a prototype from something to use as a stand-in for the real part to coordinate the other pieces of the project, then shave down the prototype to create the actual ...
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:44 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Carving a prototype
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17042
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:06 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Cowboy Freight Hauler from Battle Beyond The Stars
- Replies: 49
- Views: 139668
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:57 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Cowboy Freight Hauler from Battle Beyond The Stars
- Replies: 49
- Views: 139668
Thank you! That Quad Tractor shows up in the oddest places when you start looking... The build is on-going, just slowed to a very slow crawl. Every season of the year presents challenges to the modeler: summer means tending the garden, and the yard, weeding the iris beds, and mowing the crab-grass. ...
- Mon May 19, 2014 11:29 am
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: HELP, Please; a compressor WATER TRAP question!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17160
- Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:06 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Cowboy Freight Hauler from Battle Beyond The Stars
- Replies: 49
- Views: 139668
- Wed Apr 09, 2014 12:26 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Ultraboard- Styrene faced foamcore
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9825
- Wed Apr 09, 2014 12:24 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Cowboy Freight Hauler from Battle Beyond The Stars
- Replies: 49
- Views: 139668
Slowly I grind forth...
7 new build pics added, showing the solution I am applying to the leg tank cylinders, and also the 4 finned engines. Those are now all glued up *real good* and I added rings trimmed from Scotchtape cores at the aft end of the engines.
http://tinyurl.com/m6v29tp
7 new build pics added, showing the solution I am applying to the leg tank cylinders, and also the 4 finned engines. Those are now all glued up *real good* and I added rings trimmed from Scotchtape cores at the aft end of the engines.
http://tinyurl.com/m6v29tp
- Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:56 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Question about best choice of material
- Replies: 63
- Views: 152375
Re: Sabding
I purchased same of their sanding sticks! Another question for down the road, any reccomedation on a substance I can use to fill in cracks of joined pieces on the final model to hide seanms? For filling seams, it is hard to beat either Aves or Magicsculpt epoxy putties: Aves: http://www.starshipmod...
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:19 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Cowboy Freight Hauler from Battle Beyond The Stars
- Replies: 49
- Views: 139668
Thanks, gang! Progress this past weekend: not so much. I'm making the leg-cylinder tanks currently, and it's a slow, ugly process. I'm also crankin' on my Sekrit contest entry for the Departures 2.0 contest here, and dealin' with yard chores and house chores. Actually getting a model finished... it'...
- Fri Mar 21, 2014 4:33 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Cowboy Freight Hauler from Battle Beyond The Stars
- Replies: 49
- Views: 139668
Cowboy Freight Hauler from Battle Beyond The Stars
From Battle Beyond The Stars, I started a Flicker page for my Cowboy Freight Hauler build: http://tinyurl.com/m6v29tp The goal (insert hysterical laughter) is to have this at Wonderfest this year. It's gonna be a race... Minor note: while the 1979 model builders had cheap access to a variety of kits...
- Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:25 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Babylon 5, Wing Commander Models (3D Printing)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 38894
- Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:31 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: en.ofweek.com products
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7606
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:54 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Material used for reshaping
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12479
- Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:25 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: MK1, Nylon Gag Industies
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12399
- Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:52 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Airbrush shopping is such a headache
- Replies: 18
- Views: 47054
- Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:29 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Airbrush Systems
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13622
- Fri Aug 02, 2013 10:36 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Polar Lights TOS Enterprise 1\1000 pylon grilles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24445
Re: Polar Lights TOS Enterprise 1\1000 decal sheets - window
...and when did they use the dk. Grey version? For the Animated Series version of the Enterprise: http://www.theviewscreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/tas-enterprise-500x175.jpg :8) Just kidding. The yellow sheet is stickers, the white sheet is decals. And, the decal sheet does have white window...
- Fri Aug 02, 2013 8:36 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: star trek the original series rock formations
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10258
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:27 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Masterpeice Project. Mastering Mediums and Techniques
- Replies: 22
- Views: 59265
I am certain that others will point out alternate approaches to getting a masterpiece build done, but my style is... -Is this build for yourself or a client? For yourself, you can usually take as much or as little time as you need. Clients have this odd thing about deadlines. A masterpiece for a cli...
- Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:29 am
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Planning a project-To Arduino an Enterprise-C
- Replies: 22
- Views: 27652
- Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:17 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Masterpeice Project. Mastering Mediums and Techniques
- Replies: 22
- Views: 59265
- Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:54 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Masterpeice Project. Mastering Mediums and Techniques
- Replies: 22
- Views: 59265
- Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:28 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Brush painting small, irregularly shaped details?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9304
Here are two possible approaches: 1) Find good quality masking tape, like Tamiya tape or Frog tape: http://frogtape.com/index.php/products This should allow you to mask right up to the edges of the detail areas. Burnish it down completely! Then paint the detail areas. 2) Strip the existing paint. Th...
- Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:50 am
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Gold Reflective Canopies
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16959
- Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:11 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Working with "snaking" tiny wire or styrene detail
- Replies: 9
- Views: 19257
...and if you use Aves or Magicsculpt, take a small amount, roughly green-pea-sized, and start gently rolling it out into a rope. It's surprisingly easy to control the overall diameter to a thickness that you prefer, down to really, really thin threads. Either of those putty's give you gobs of work-...
- Tue May 07, 2013 7:54 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: 2001 Moon Bus
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8469
Hah! I fooled the universe! I cleverly finished one kit, and now more information has come out so I can do the second kit properly! Kev Is that like completing a rare and obscure scratchbuild so that you can lure out the even rarer and more obscure references you needed to make the scratchbuild acc...
- Tue May 07, 2013 7:36 am
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: 2001 Moon Bus
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8469
Over on Hobbytalk, djnick66 did a really nice build showing what paint colors he used throughout the model; page 5 of the thread gathers the paint call-outs:
http://tinyurl.com/d646uqa
Reading through that may help you make decisions about what colors to use for your build.
http://tinyurl.com/d646uqa
Reading through that may help you make decisions about what colors to use for your build.
- Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:23 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Tools of the Trade
- Replies: 48
- Views: 196120