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  1. I use foam for pinning pieces while they dry. I get an unlimited supply of it for free. I do stucco, mostly EIFS, which the main building material is foam. We throw out any piece that we don't use. Bags and bags full of pieces of foam that we modelers can use for work stations and diarama sets. My suggestion is to find your local stucco company and ask if they are doing any EIFS jobs and if you can collect any discarded foam. We really could care less if you want it, just less garbage for us. BTW they come in various thickness from 1 inch to 4 inch. Discarded pieces can be 1 foot or two long and less then a foot high, usually. Unless someone gives you a full sheet 2' X 4'
  2. really? Air compressor is that important? I use a cheapo, beginner type desktop compressor and I didn't think I had a problem with it. I mean, I would like to get a better one, but I didn't think it would make much of a difference. I guess I need to change my priorities a bit. I'm really new, and I learn so much from you guys, so thank you for the tips and keep them coming.
  3. Kind of looks like a ghost car, like something Casper would drive
  4. Well, I want to airbrush other things on a much larger scale and I'll need to practise techniques and so on so I see using a lot more color then just for models. I doubt I'd be too worried about paint drying because you only need about 6 Or so prime colors to make every other color, barring specialty colors like metal and such. Each bigger color jar costs about $15 or so, which would make total paint costs at $90. The biggest annoyance I have, and it's totally my fault, is that I bought a bottom feed airbrush and I'm constantly cleaning the one bottle. I have to buy more bottles anyways, but trying to find bottles with a top to fit in the airbrush is annoying. I have made my own out of Tamiya lids and feel confident on making more (they work very well) but the Vallejo lids are too small to get my DIY lid to work well All in all, I just see my annoyance factor decreasing if I can get one type of bottle for all my airbrushing needs And I am most definitely getting a gravity feed as soon as I can. But I still want to use my bottom feed for bigger painting projects
  5. First of all, thank you so much for the resource of this forums. I have learned so much from here. I have learned answers to questions I didn't even know I needed to ask. So, a little background on me. I'm fairly new at this hobby and I'm still in the beginner stages. I'm also learning how to airbrush and I want to airbrush as a painting tool outside of model building as well as painting my models. I am currently trying to collect all of the Vallejo paints, and some Tamiya paints. My professional background is a stucco plasterer. Our favorite type of stucco finish right now is acrylic stucco. I've been to where they mix the dye's for our finish material and what they do for mixing colors is they have a contraption that holds bulk color and will dispense a measured amount. They have a chart that tells how much of each color to dispense to create the color needed. This makes for a very controlled dye color for professional use. I want to know if I could set something like this up for myself. Has anyone tried and what are the limitations? I was at a general hobby store yesterday and saw that they have big containers of color for like $15 a bottle. I found a couple online resources that have all the color for every model paint company and how to mix them from the prime colors so I think this would be a very cheap (comparably) way of getting all the colors I want. Here are the online resources so you have a better idea what I'm trying to do. First, a cross section of different model paint color schemes: paint4models.com next is a color mixer: trycolors.com What you do is go to the first link and pick the color you want. Say the model calls for Tamiya XF57. You find that and look at the RGB code, which is E0C895. Then you enter that into the second link, the trycolors.com and it tells you that to make that color you need 4 parts yellow, 4 parts red, 3 parts cyan, and 5 parts white. So much experience here, I'm sure I'm not the only one to think of this, so maybe you could steer me one way or another before I invest in a bad plan =)
  6. Don't know if you will ever get this but Sketchup is probably what you are looking for. You can import plans and even blueprints and easily. I've only done 3D models of buildings but I seen that you can do engineering projects and even landscaping projects. After, you can print out what you have done, both on paper and if you have a 3D printer, in 3D. Sketchup is free unless you want the professional version. It does take imports and exports to cad files. I feel this is relevant because once 3D printers become more popular, we modelers can get some good use from it and Sketchup is the perfect, easy to use, program
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