slowlylearning Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 Deep Dish Wheels What you need: Sanding sticks Hobby-Knife Adorably small saw (cutting-wheels leave a lot of molten plastic slag) A Suitable Wheel Use your adorably small saw to shop the front of the wheel from the rest of the rim. Like this- Clean that sucker up! Using the backside of the rim as the front, you now have a deep dish! If you want to use a smaller tyre, and the only ones you have come with too-tall sidewalls... Carefully slice them off to fit! Find different iterations that work for what you want them for.
slowlylearning Posted March 28, 2014 Author Posted March 28, 2014 Plug Boot Tubing What you need: Hobby-Knife Tweezers Coloured wire from electrical cables. Slowly and painstakingly remove the small copper strands from inside the coloured wire. This takes some patience! You can build up a good supply of a huge range of colours fairly quickly. Slip it over your plugwire leads and you're ready to wire up that engine! Dont throw this away! It can come in handy for making things such as carburetor return springs. If you're not making a mess you're not doing it right! Have Fun!!!
afx Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 Great tips Kasey. That Trumpeter saw looks very handy, wish I knew where to buy one.
slowlylearning Posted March 28, 2014 Author Posted March 28, 2014 Thanks JC, my saw came to me through a freind who got it from Brunel Hobbies in Victoria Australia. You'd need to contact them via email to see if they ship overseas
crazyjim Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 I like the wheel tip and have been using telephone wire for boots. Thanks for the tip.
Mizozuman2 Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 Is there a way to save this thread in the website, or do I have to bookmark it? I'll most likely forget about this in the next hour or so, and it would be amazing to remember this, as I have A LOT of wires that aren't used. I've got an old desktop that doesn't work (Internals fried themselves to bits). So I can get TONS from that. Thanks for these great tips! Really helps for an aspiring model.
slowlylearning Posted March 28, 2014 Author Posted March 28, 2014 Thanks guys Tucker, you're welcome to save the pictures to your computer
tbill Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 I like the plug wire boot idea, although to expand on it, it seems an automotive wire stripper would speed the process up substantially.
DrGlueblob Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 mmmmm, deep-dish,,, Pepperoni on mine, pleez. I want a camera like yours, great macro pictures! Good tips too.
slowlylearning Posted March 31, 2014 Author Posted March 31, 2014 Tom- I'll have to look into those, I knew they existed just not that small, thanks for the tip! Mike- You're welcome Chip- lol thanks! The camera I use is the one in my phone (Samsung Galaxy S4), When there isnt good lighting and a plain white background it isnt all that helpful lol
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