Jeff Sauber Posted January 3, 2010 Posted January 3, 2010 Just though I'd pass along what I stumbled across at Michaels. Some of you may already know this but they are now carrying little plastic tubes of finely cut flocking material. I saw it in the rubber stamp section, and it came in colors like gray, black, dark blue, purple, red, and a medium tan. It think it was a couple bucks per pack of 3 or 4 tubes. It's not a whole lot of per tube but it's enough for maybe 2 cars worth or so.....It also seems to be a finer grain than some of the flocking I've seen offered for models...........Jeff
crispy Posted January 3, 2010 Posted January 3, 2010 Jeff, Have you got a picture or name of the stuff? I recently picked up Martha Stewart's flocking. It was affordable with a 50% off coupon as well as comparable to Testors brand in price with the discount. I was really pleased at how well it laid out and the lack of clumps. As you mentioned about the other stuff, this too was very fine. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the heads up. Chris
Jeff Sauber Posted January 4, 2010 Author Posted January 4, 2010 I'll be heading back up there this week, and I'll pick some up and take a few pics.....seems like its gonna be good stuff since its an extremely thin grain..... more info to come....................
Eric Stone Posted January 4, 2010 Posted January 4, 2010 I'll be heading back up there this week, and I'll pick some up and take a few pics.....seems like its gonna be good stuff since its an extremely thin grain..... more info to come.................... I picked up several jars of the Martha Stewart stuff on a friend's recommendation. Haven't tried it yet. I didn't see the small tubes though. I've been looking everywhere pretty intensely for about 2 months now, so I was glad to find some.
crispy Posted January 4, 2010 Posted January 4, 2010 I picked up several jars of the Martha Stewart stuff on a friend's recommendation. Haven't tried it yet. I didn't see the small tubes though. I've been looking everywhere pretty intensely for about 2 months now, so I was glad to find some. Eric, I first used Martha's on my Skyline just to try it out. Should be no problems for you. Here's the link to my post: My skyline You can see it on the package tray. Very nice. Jeff, is that Michael's store pretty big? There are different level of Michael's stores, A-E. Some might have it and some might not. Chris
Jeff Sauber Posted January 4, 2010 Author Posted January 4, 2010 Eric, I first used Martha's on my Skyline just to try it out. Should be no problems for you. Here's the link to my post: My skyline You can see it on the package tray. Very nice. Jeff, is that Michael's store pretty big? There are different level of Michael's stores, A-E. Some might have it and some might not. Chris Its a decent sized store I've been going to for a while, but until this weekend I never saw this stuff before. It looks like something new they are carrying. It comes in a small 3 or 4 pak of rectangular tubes similar to the detail master stuff, but of a smaller cut and grain which appeared to be more in scale and less clumpy looking..Each pak contains 4 different colors, and there was all sorts of color combinations. I'll get some soon and work with to see if it has potential or not....
Jeff Sauber Posted January 4, 2010 Author Posted January 4, 2010 The stuff I saw was not the martha stewart brand....It was called "craft colors flocking" or something similar to that. It was almost like a powder. It was real finely cut.
Lownslow Posted January 4, 2010 Posted January 4, 2010 i know what youre talking about now i have it too but theyre a little small
my80malibu Posted January 4, 2010 Posted January 4, 2010 i got the stuff the other day, its nice I wonder if this was an Idea, She and the other Ladies thought up, One day while the License plate pressing machines were being worked on.
Merkur XR4Ti Posted January 4, 2010 Posted January 4, 2010 Michaels also carries embossing powder, which works very well in place of flocking and IMHO doesn't come loose as easily once applied. I bought a jar of block powder for use as carpets and it should last a very, very long time.
crispy Posted January 4, 2010 Posted January 4, 2010 So I looked today at Michael's and see it comes in sets. Four different colors at $8.99 for the set with about 3 different colored sets. The bottles are kind of small. Company is Stampendous. I'm going to stick with Martha for now. Chris
Jeff Sauber Posted January 4, 2010 Author Posted January 4, 2010 looks like you found something new as well......thats not the same stuff I saw....lol. They must be carrying two brands of flocking.......go figure.....the plot now thickens.
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