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- Tue Apr 14, 2015 3:56 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Fiber optics and paint
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7547
One of the guys in the local club uses super glue to glue his fibers into place. He leaves about 1/4 inch sticking out. The super glue makes the fiber brittle, and after painting he just snaps off the protruding ends by brushing with his hand. (The part about the glue making the fiber brittle makes ...
- Tue Mar 10, 2015 1:15 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: So I can't use Mr. Surfacer to prime a vinyl figure?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 63941
The wings I added to this demoness were from a vinyl craft-store figure. I primed them with Tamiya spray primer, and all seemed to be well; but I could not get the color coats (oil paints) to dry. I then mixed up some Milliput, and added water until I had a slurry. I applied about five coats of that...
- Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:39 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: need to make some mast starting with .032 wire
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10388
- Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:17 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: help! i want to use some PE on my scratch build
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12274
- Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:44 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: a best filler?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 19210
- Sat Oct 25, 2014 7:39 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Liquid cement melted styrene questions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 19477
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:37 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: help needed. How to sand a piece of resin perfectly flat
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14930
Re: help needed. How to sand a piece of resin perfectly flat
Hi guys, I need help. Im having a hard time getting the mating surfaces of two pieces of resin absolutely flat. Any tips? I usually go super slow sanding lightly and testfitting often. But for some reason this piece just refuses to play nice. Any tips I can try? Why make it flat? When I have two bi...
- Tue May 20, 2014 10:28 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: bare metal foil?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25165
- Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:23 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Very simple LED question!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13566
- Wed Apr 23, 2014 1:24 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Very simple LED question!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13566
...I have lots of the thin wire that's coated in rubber/plastic...I think it's maybe bell wire? Say I had 5 of them for the positive line, would I just strip all five ends, twist them together then solder them to another bit of bell wire? So that, like you said, there would only be two wires coming...
- Wed Apr 23, 2014 12:52 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Very simple LED question!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13566
- Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:16 am
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Very simple LED question!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13566
An LED takes about 3.3 volts, so your proposed series wiring scheme wouldn't work; all six LEDs together would require 6*3.3 = 19.8 volts. But you can wire two LEDs in series; 2*3.3=6.6, which is less than your 9-volt battery. LEDs need to have resistors in series with them to limit the current to a...
- Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:09 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Painting Head Ligths and Spot lights.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9695
- Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:35 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Tiny flexible hoses?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 124304
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:24 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Cowboy Freight Hauler from Battle Beyond The Stars
- Replies: 49
- Views: 146223
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:04 am
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: My Badger 150 is being naughty!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7282
- Fri Jan 17, 2014 9:50 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: How do you get that Scratched-Paint look?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 31518
I've used the hairspray technique pretty successfully. I used Tamiya spray gloss aluminum as the base coat; Tamiya spray paint, when dry, is very durable. Then a layer of hairspray, then an airbrushed coat of green enamel. Since I used enamel, and not acrylic, I had to do the scrubbing under warm wa...
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:10 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: TOS Turbo Lift grill shadow
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6857
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:35 am
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: finish window lines after removing masks?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6521
I've come to prefer Tamiya masking tape. It has just the right amount of tack, and it's possible to get very crisp lines using it. Since it's expensive, I only use it for the edges, and then fill in the larger areas with ordinary blue painter's tape. It also helps to go around the edges of your mask...
- Thu Nov 21, 2013 12:27 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Any alternatives to Strip-a-kit "old" / "dry
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16941
Scale Coat paint remover is easy to use, and is about the only thing that will touch Tamiya spray paints (Purple Power won't).
Here, this is the stuff:
http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Scalecoa ... -10568.htm
Here, this is the stuff:
http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Scalecoa ... -10568.htm
- Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:29 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Rod or tubing?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13444
- Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:31 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Looking for tiny 1.5mm trusses in PE
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14992
I realize that this maybe isn't what you wanted to hear, but why don't you try etching them yourself? MicroMark sells a home photoetching kit that works pretty well; I've used it to make bits for a French land ironclad and a nameplate for a Space Pirates model. Here's a thread on another site which ...
- Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:50 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Colonial viper Mk1---Monovell *WIP*
- Replies: 12
- Views: 31442
- Fri Jun 07, 2013 8:45 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Working with "snaking" tiny wire or styrene detail
- Replies: 9
- Views: 19560
- Thu Jun 06, 2013 5:16 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Two part mold
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20169
- Thu May 30, 2013 4:57 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Two part mold
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20169
- Wed May 29, 2013 9:26 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Two part mold
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20169
- Thu May 02, 2013 2:34 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: When to paint?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15386
- Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:35 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Looking for car modeling links, Ya'll
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11394
- Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:17 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Sanding/Filling - what am I doing wrong
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25569