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Also, make sure grooves will align during the test fit. Deal with that first as best as you can. This might mean widening the location pin sockets or slightly filing the location pins. If this misalignment is particularly severe, you many need to cut one or more pins off and rely on careful gluing o...

I have used alcohol to help sculpt and smooth Squadron putty into place which was handy for me as I'm a bit of a stone-age model builder :oops:. I would agree that it is best to minimize the size of a gap or seam mismatch by other means before resorting to putty (i.e. as mentioned in previous posts:...

Given that many of the comments on Blender's are over 8 years old, I think it bears mentioning that the Blender interface has changed quite a bit and is not so "key-sequence" dependent as it used to be, although learning key sequences is helpful and necessary at times. I don't think I woul...

Okay, had an idea, what if I mounted a bicycle tire with spinning axle? Takes the weight off the wall, still able to spin, will reinforce the outer ring to spin on rollers that will be on the floor mounted on a support box. The spinning motion can come from there. Actually if you go for something m...

Pictures have to be posted on a third party site that allows for forum posting - not all picture hosting sites allow hotlinks to bulletin boards. Others that do may have terms/conditions/costs that may apply. SM.net does not have any mechanism to host or upload images. Images are imbedded in a post ...

Is there a way to check which wire is + and which is -, without destroying the LED? I was installing some LEDs and now starting to seal up, I realized I screwed up in my marking of 2 wires that are now hidden, to know which end is positive and which was negative. Wiring it up in reverse should not ...

There's a few things I picked up that I thought kind of begged diorama. I got a second hand Monogram X-15 which is mostly in one piece, but the decals are pretty much shot. I thought I could still build it in the landed high speed test version since the real one had most of it's markings burnt off!....

Just curious... has anybody considered other materials, like paper, for larger sizes (assuming that you don't need something transparent) ? You could use something like a large balloon or perhaps an exercise ball as a form, then build up a papier-mâché shell over top of it. The minor sticking point...

As one approaches the "Yule" I have noticed that different kind of plastic balls become available in craft and dollar stores for making tree decorations or even specialized packaging. While they aren't normally stocked on shelves at other times of the year, you can still find them online i...

There was a big detailed thread here, but it sat in the STsig and so wasn't saved. I did save my old reply at papermodelers' http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/alternate-dimensions/36577-film-restoration-enterprise.html Sorry about not reading this thread earlier. It turns out that at starship model...

The only way you will do it through plastic is via induction. Agree in that plastic is inherently non-conductive. You could make the shell of the ship out of steel which is conductive and magnetic. There is a niche of hobbyists who like using cans as their base material. Even then you need a circui...

1/2" thick plastic seems unreasonable unless you are trying to make the skin itself structurally stiff enough to hold up the model's weight. I'm unclear as to the actual scale (20, 40 - inches, feet?). Just from seeing other people's work, it seems a more logical approach is to start off with a...

If you're going big paper/card stock/foam core is probably the more affordable route. For the most part you can work with it similarly to plastic card; use lacquer to stiffen for light sanding , wood filler for gaps and edges, takes to light rattle cans, although other painting requires care due to ...

nobody said sprues?

I guess utilizing the technology used by the C.M.D.F. is out of the question? If you have seen "Innerspace" you will know that the guy with that technology and the drill... (SPOILER ALERT->) came to a bad end (<-/ Spoiler Alert) As a more constructive note, you may need to mark and count ...

I bought a 600 rpm gearbox combo, and a miniature chuck. But I’m having trouble mating the two in such a way that I don’t get any “wobble” on the tip of the drill bit. Part of the problem is that the gearbox shaft has a diameter of 3 mm (and is a “D” shape), and the inner diameter of the miniature ...

Besides sacrificing to the god of shag carpets... Anyhow, I've just spent way too much time looking for a carefully cut nose of a 1/72 torpedo to replace the head on the Revell 1/79 BB8 when it occurred to me, if I had been working inside a clear plastic bag...a kind of glove box, it might have been...

I remember using a heated needle when making holes for rigging in braced airplanes (typically wwi type stuff). Of course this isn't like doing the huge number of holes for lighting a Star Destroyer or some such vehicle, it does involve nothing more complicated than a candle, a pin, and a pair of pli...

Sadly the checkerboard goes across several flat surfaces, front part of a Z-95(https://starshipmodeler.biz/shop/index.cfm/product/1803_195/172-zed-95-hunter.html), Mostly going to be in front of the cockpit, but before the final nose cone area... wish that hlj stencil option was larger and availabl...

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Could deletion be set to "last time seen" as opposed to last time replied to?
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(re:http://www.starshipmodeler.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=28&p=1106443#p1106443) Topics that do not have a reply in a set amount of time (14 days in the most active forums, 30 days in others) will be deleted...(The only exceptions are the Construction, Finishing and Lighting forums - topics there...

One of the other forums I participate in only allows posting of links after the 10th regular post. Since the spammers are invariably always including links, this might solve some of the problems. Subsequently, a similar limit to images until the 10th regular post might do the same trick. Also limiti...

I've never used it for this purpose before, but I'm wondering if Moonsand might not be useful for figuring some of this stuff out. My kids had the stuff when little and it came with molds you could either set into it, or press into it and it would hold the shape. I don't know if you could pour plast...

(Second attempt...I thought I posted this reply already so if it doubles...apologies) The complexity of your circuit is starting to look a lot like the Kirchhoffs Circuit Law problems I used to get in physics (which I also tended to screw up :oops: ). I wonder if one solution would be to not conside...

I would recommend that you understand your LEDs. These are diodes and really only want DC current. Diodes when passing current, which in LEDs is when they're lit, offer very, very little resistance. So, there will be math. Ohm's law dictates the relationship between the voltage and current in your c...

I wish I'd seen this topic earlier. Oh well. The getting bulkheads back from a 3d model is a frequent problem in paper modeling because you can often get the model from modeling sites or from game object extraction, but these can be structurally unsound in cardstock without some backing structure. I...

I'd say use a template to hold the pieces correctly while they set. It's not unusual in biplane float plane, and other structures (wing dihedral for instance) where the connection points or connection geometries won't necessarily insure proper alignment. You may need to do some careful measurements ...

you know what you are describing sounds an awful lot like sealing wax. My grandparents had a block of the stuff which I think they used for sealing bottles and things (which is why there was so much). It is fairly cheap (found a 1 pound block for $9), but it occurs to me that if it is used to mold h...

To some extent I would say, take anything you see here about model finishing and ignore it; no washes, no airbrush, no blending. I don't think you have to stick to black and white, although isolating the look might be easier in grayscale (outside of getting the whole thing some solid base color as s...

Can the forum text be made a bit larger? It seems a bit small in 1920 X 1080. FYI, if you hold Ctrl and use the scroll wheel (or manually go into the View menu) you can change the zoom level and it'll stick for just the site you're on. You can also zoom only the text via the menu option. There's an...