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[VinciAuto]

Great tip, Going to favorite this page lol

[Dr. Cranky]

Thanks, Mike . . . we'll keep an eye out for them.

[papi62596]

Thanks for the great tip. I'll have to see if I can get my hands on some of the film cans since they're harder to come by now a days. If not I'll try the salt and pepper shakers everyone is talking about. Would an old spice shaker work or are the holes to big?

[Cato]

Just came across this after posting my own thread in the 'Questions' section about the best flock for 1/12 use. Got great answers there. Thanks Marc and all posters here.
Has anyone here experience with flocking a 1/12 project? Which flock 'scales' best?

[Casey]

Just came across this after posting my own thread in the 'Questions' section about the best flock for 1/12 use. Got great answers there. Thanks Marc and all posters here.
Has anyone here experience with flocking a 1/12 project? Which flock 'scales' best?

I would suggest you try the flocking most people use for 1/24 scale models, as it would look more in scale in 1/12 than it does in 1/24 scale. Unless you're replicating shag carpet, cut pile carpet strands are less than 1/4" tall in real life, so on a 1/24 scale model they'd need to be at most .01042" tall. You'd have to grind up the flocking with a mortar and pestle to get it that fine/short, but I think it'd look a lot better than it does straight out of the package.

[Yahshu]

Fantastic, love the film canister sifter, i'll be using that one.

[pearlrivi]

Marc- not trying to be a kill joy- but I hope you remembered to flock the tunnel between the rear seats!