Beans
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I've used clear plastic pencil pouches. You can get them pretty much anywhere that sells office supplies and sometimes they come in different colors. Works great for tinted windows.
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Have a small board like that I use for leatherworking. Never thought about using it on the model desk. Going to have to try it out.
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Rear suspension do over complete.
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So much detail!! With the outstanding job you did on the weathering you almost overlook all the work that went into opening the doors and trunk, adding the interior door panel and detail under the trunk lid. That alone looks great. Then the weathering just takes it up several notches. I especially like the work on the vinyl top and seats.
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4 hours ago, Lunajammer said:
So here's where I'm at on the 74 Plymouth...
As discussed in Q&A, I painted with Duplicolor products but the clear is just not getting hard. It spent a couple weeks off and on in the dehydrator and I went ahead and started cutting the clear with sandpaper and polish. Sands very easily because it's not that hard but I also can't get a satisfactory shine. More time seems to be the answer. Stripping it and starting over is not an option because if it comes to that then I'm out.
I've encountered this once before, but it happened when I airbrushed nail polish. At the time I thought the polish had a softener to prevent chipping but it took over a year to harden.
The interior is mostly done, still need to detail the dash. Here's where the body stands right now...
That color looks awesome!! Hope the clear works out for you.
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5 hours ago, White Rabbit said:
Hello everyone! I hope your builds are coming along. Like always, if you have any updates, we'd definitely enjoying seeing them!
As for my update, I've been blocking-in the transmission. It's interesting to note how small a rotary engine really is!
Can't wait to see all this design work come to fruition!!
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Decided at the last minute to change the wheels and tires. Which means redoing the rear suspension.
I think I am just avoiding dealing with the little super glue blob I got on the roof. Still not sure how I want to deal with that.
I ended up using the SVT cobra rear end (or at least most of it) and exhaust.
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9 minutes ago, ewetwo said:
With all the talk about Micheal's and Hobby Lobby having kits on discount. I held off as long as I could. But curiosity killed the cat. So I did 100 miles today checking out the closest stores to me.
The 2 Micheals. One had kits but not at discount. The 2nd one had no kits what so ever. And the remains of their Testors paint just on a shelf. That store doesn't look like they are going to carry them anymore. That store wasn't very big.
The 2 Hobby Lobby's. One store had one Revell Motor City Muscle 1966 Mustang kit for $14.99. I have 2 built already. So I passed on it. And both stores had their shelves full of the same kits from the past few years.
While near a distant Ollies. I stopped in and found an AMT 007 1971 Mustang kit. Only car kit that store had.
So I got one kit in my trip which is better than none right?
And I looked for Tamiya polishing compounds at both Hobby Lobby's. None. And they had some new pen type things. I can't described them any better than that because the labeling was in Chinese. So I couldn't read it.
With the price of gas right now, that kit, including the trip, would have cost me about $40
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On 3/23/2024 at 7:07 PM, Yeah Nah said:
Thanks Mike.
Small scale and all media? How about 1/100 paper models? Was heavily into these for a while when taking a break from plastic.
All 1/00, all printed out on A4 paper, all fiddly (but fun) to build and all available as free downloads from the amazing Minimodel website (free but if you can donate they're very appreciative 😉:
https://www.minimodel.cz/en/catalog.html
Those are really cool. Just looked at the site and downloaded a couple. You did a great job on them, especially after looking a few over and the very small detail in involved.
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3 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:
Embossing powder only has a metallic finish if you use metallic powder.
Steve
Ah. Ha! Well that makes sense. Maybe I'll read the little bottle next time.
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The only issue I have with embossing powder is that it tends to have a glossy and sometimes metallic appearance. Maybe putting some dull coat on top might change that...hmmm something to try.
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This is looking awesome!! That chain though...... not thanks. I gave up on several armor kits that wanted me to assemble the individual track links. You have way more patience than I do!! Awesome work.
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Didn't even know what if aircraft was a thing. Heck, I wouldn't have even known this was never a real production plane.
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I will definitely be following this one. I have wanted to build a bike for a while but just haven't.
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Sitting outside the local Ollies.
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Lots of uses I didn't even think of!! Funny that we all have such an abundance of empty med bottles around.
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Somebody makes a PE sheet of scribing blades that fit into an exacto knife handle. I have them, they work well. I just wish I remembered where I got them.
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I brush paint a lot of interior and detail parts. I actually enjoy the brush painting as it allows me to take my time and relax more with the model.
Multiple thin coats is the key. I will sometimes just do one coat a day over several days.
It's monotonous but works for me.
That being said, I don't brush Tamiya paints. I have tried, didn't like it and only spray them now.
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Is the purpose of the question to determine how to remove them whole and re-use them?
I don't see any way they can be removed then re-used.
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I do the same. Works great.
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I use them for paint washes. I'm too cheap to buy panel line paint. I have washes in black, various browns and green for weathering.
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I get the feeling those selling use shipping as the guaranteed sales price then use the bidding to pay the actual shipping and any over the top profit.
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running some masking tape on either side of the panel line and using a very fine blade may minimize the amount of chipping that happens. That being said, the amount of actual scribing you can achieve will be minimal and may not be worth the extra effort to avoid what will most likely happen anyway.
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3 hours ago, Mr mopar said:
Prices and shipping are going up and I can't play any more how sad is that .
It's gotten so that shipping doubles the purchase price.
What Did You Accomplish Today? (Model Car Work)
in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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Used Rustoleum automotive clear coat over brush painted craft paint, just to see how it would turn out.