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hey guys, some of you may know that i'm building a sail ship enterprise and i was wondering if any of you would know of a good way to make realistic looking sails. the ones on the base that i started with are plastic and atrocious. i was thinking of like a thinner white material ,tea stained, and so...

thanks loads

any good sugestions on how to get that nice cutting through the water wave at the verry front of the ship? and what about wake lines?

thanks for all the info, this should kick my model up the extra notch that i want. all of the resin stuff i've seen looks so fake and flat,no texture. on a lake it miiiiight get that windless and smooth, but on the ocean it'll never ever get that calm!

thanks for the info.

is this like a sticker or is it more like resin type stuff? if it's more like a sticker how did you get to look like the ship is showing through like that?

i realy need to know wher the product used to make the water here http://www.starshipmodeler.com/contest/kit_12.htm is from and how to get that kind of results??? i'm working on a model of the WW-II uss intrepid for my father for this chrismas. it was my grand fathers ship and this model will be dis...

any ideas about a red color would also be nice.

i'm trying to cast some of the parts for the three small enterprise kits so i can light them.now here is where i ask you not to laugh too hard. i'm making the molds from silicon caulk,it's worked well so far and at a buck a tube at wally world i can aford to screw up. the resin is the five minute ap...

thanks i apreciate it! i was just afraid of water base and hummidity, but if you guys haven't had any problems i'll try it. thanks again for the info.

hey guys, i'm kind of a nooby especially at airbrushing. so here's my question. i've worked with enamels when i was younger working on models with a paint brush. now that i'm working with airbrushes i have heard that acrylic are easier to shoot and clean up. but i was wondering if a water based oute...

i don't know if this fits here or not this is the closest i could think of. if it doesn't the modrators can move it. but here it goes.my sister has one of these globes that magicaly floats withoutany suports.well a week ago it stoped working and shelet me tinker with it. ifound out that all it was w...

as it says above. and where do you get some? and what is the expected range on price? i'm looking to put this in my warp nacels. what is the longjevity like on this stuff?

i'm sorry if this has been covered here before.(i couldn't fin ay other threads on it) i'm just getting back into models after several years away,and the last time i was involved i used rice lights. now i want to try leds for the obvious reasons of longivity and coolness. i know from woriking on put...