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- Sat May 18, 2024 4:09 am
- Forum: Wonderfest 2024!
- Topic: Who's going?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3837
Re: Who's going?
I intend to go.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: Wonderfest 2024!
- Topic: Wonderfest Marketing Send Me Flyers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2347
Re: Wonderfest Marketing Send Me Flyers
I'm still waiting on the flyers.
Mike
Mike
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:06 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Quick Shine - replacement for Pledge Future?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1320
Re: Quick Shine - replacement for Pledge Future?
Thanks for the report. Would adding an acrylic flow aid help?
Mike
Mike
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:14 am
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Acrylic primer spray
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2007
Re: Acrylic primer spray
I'd recommend Mr. Surfacer. I always do. It's available in cans. Spray it outside.
Mike
Mike
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:28 am
- Forum: Wonderfest 2024!
- Topic: Wonderfest Marketing Send Me Flyers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2347
Re: Wonderfest Marketing Send Me Flyers
Thanks John,
Email sent.
Mike
Email sent.
Mike
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: Wonderfest 2024!
- Topic: Wonderfest Marketing Send Me Flyers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2347
Wonderfest Marketing Send Me Flyers
Will someone associated with Wonderfest please send me flyers so I can distribute them to hobby shops around Lexington. Last year I only had enough flyers to give one to each shop. At Wonderfest 2023, there was a big stack of undistributed 2023 flyers. Send flyers tp people in Cincinnati and other c...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 11:52 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: dumb painting question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14679
Re: dumb painting question
Hardware store lacquer thinner is different from acrylic lacquer thinner. For example, you can thin Mr. Surfacer with hardware store lacquer thinner. However seams and things you think you sanded smooth might reappear. When you use Mr. Thinner it covers perfectly without that problem. It's easy to f...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:45 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Nail Polish...anyone ever use them for painting?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 98463
Re: Nail Polish...anyone ever use them for painting?
You could go into a nail salon and ask the workers what thinner they use. Maybe you could buy a bottle from them.
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: removing electrolplate from parts
- Replies: 11
- Views: 65672
Re: removing electrolplate from parts
I'm with Saturn. If you want to remove everything down to the bare plastic. SuperClean is the way to go. Bleach will remove the plating and probably leave the undercoat, if there is any, on the part.
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 10:17 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Nail Polish...anyone ever use them for painting?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 98463
Re: Nail Polish...anyone ever use them for painting?
I've never used it, but car modelers have airbrushed nail polish for ages. There are bound to be a bunch of videos on youtube.
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 3:16 pm
- Forum: Important Site News
- Topic: 25th Anniversary, right?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 418211
Re: 25th Anniversary, right?
Happy Anniversary
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:04 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Fixing scratches in clear plastic
- Replies: 7
- Views: 39033
Re: Fixing scratches in clear plastic
Thanks zaphod.
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:10 pm
- Forum: Wonderfest 2023
- Topic: Tony Wootson's Second part of the 2023 Wonderefest Show Report
- Replies: 4
- Views: 28322
Re: Tony Wootson's Second part of the 2023 Wonderefest Show Report
Many thanks. You've got the best Wonderfest coverage on the web.
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:48 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Paint Equivalents
- Replies: 35
- Views: 179565
Re: Paint Equivalents
Thanks Zubie
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 2:53 am
- Forum: Wonderfest 2023
- Topic: Tony Wootson's First part of the Wonderfest 2023 Report
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20873
- Tue Jun 20, 2023 1:46 am
- Forum: Wonderfest 2023
- Topic: Wonderfest 2023 contest photo gallery
- Replies: 10
- Views: 37259
Re: Wonderfest 2023 contest photo gallery
Thanks steelrose, Thanks for taking the photos and posting them. The dinos with mobile homes on their backs are from James Gurney's excellent Dinotopia books. The Dinotopia TV series isn't very good, but the books by Gurney are excellent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia Gurney blogs here: ht...
- Sun Apr 23, 2023 8:21 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: I feel dumb asking this,but...Vinyl models,acrylic paint&oils?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 35682
Re: I feel dumb asking this,but...Vinyl models,acrylic paint&oils?
In general you want to use acrylics on vinyl. I've built one vinyl kit, the Wave Aestivalis from Nadesico. I primed it with Mr. Surfacer, an acrylic lacquer, and painted it with Tamiya acrylics. For the metallic parts I used Floquil, an enamel, over the Tamiya. I might have put down a barrier coat o...
- Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:54 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Dust! How to vanquish it?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 118552
Re: Dust! How to vanquish it?
Here's a dust post from years ago. At a model club meeting decades ago, some of us complained about the troubles we had with dust. Others claimed they never had dust problems. The modelers with dust problems were all single. Married modelers were dust free. Apparently, the presence of a ...
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:23 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: How Do You Start?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 224227
Re: How Do You Start?
While the text is in Japanese, the step-by-step photos in Gundam Scratch Build Manual are very helpful. It's available on archive.org. https://archive.org/details/Gundam_Scratch_Build_Manual/page/9/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/gundam-scratch-build-manual https://archive.org/details/mobilesui...
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 7:09 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: How Do You Start?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 224227
Re: How Do You Start?
Here's the Fischer Body Craftsman's Guild guide to Designing Modeling Building a Model Automobile
https://archive.org/details/designingmodelin00fishrich
It's old. The materials are plaster and wood, but it's very informative.
Mike
https://archive.org/details/designingmodelin00fishrich
It's old. The materials are plaster and wood, but it's very informative.
Mike
- Thu Sep 01, 2022 9:25 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: DSEV Chesley Bonestell
- Replies: 14
- Views: 60449
Re: DSEV Chesley Bonestell
Great looking model.
- Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:22 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Please Recommend Good Blender Instructional Material
- Replies: 6
- Views: 30545
- Sun Mar 13, 2022 5:43 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Please Recommend Good Blender Instructional Material
- Replies: 6
- Views: 30545
Please Recommend Good Blender Instructional Material
Does anyone have recommendations for books or DVDs to learn Blender? I'm interested in hard surface modeling with the intention of printing models. I'm not interested in rendering or animation. Initially, Youtube was a great source for learning the basics. Now I waste a lot of time with videos that ...
- Sun Jan 23, 2022 10:39 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Anyone ever try something different than super glue for vinyl kits?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 38323
Re: Anyone ever try something different than super glue for vinyl kits?
I used "2 Ton" epoxy on my only vinyl model. I like it better than CA or 5 minute epoxy. Decades ago one of the old time model supply companies, maybe Floquil or Pactra, sold tubes of a solvent vinyl cement. If you want to try plumbers vinyl cement test it on scrap before using it on anyth...
- Tue Jan 11, 2022 10:50 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: working with ABS
- Replies: 19
- Views: 88512
Re: working with ABS
I've always used Plastruct Plastic Weld to solvent bond ABS. You can also use CA or epoxy. I prime it with Mr. Surfacer.
- Thu Jun 10, 2021 2:26 am
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Secret Life of Machines veers off into the Secret Life of LEDs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 20371
- Wed Aug 05, 2020 7:47 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Android/iOS controlled lighting system
- Replies: 11
- Views: 49309
Re: Android/iOS controlled lighting system
Looks good.
- Wed Aug 05, 2020 7:32 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Using Blender and other 3D drawing tools for builds
- Replies: 16
- Views: 88782
Re: Using Blender and other 3D drawing tools for builds
Hi Richard Baker, I like FreeCAD but it is far from perfect. First, this is the only 3D CAD package I've ever used. I learned "mechanical drawing" with pencil and paper decades ago and never did much with it. I used Autosketch a tiny bit back in the DOS days and a free 2D CAD program I can...
- Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:43 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Using Blender and other 3D drawing tools for builds
- Replies: 16
- Views: 88782
Re: Using Blender and other 3D drawing tools for builds
Is anyone else here using FreeCAD? I installed it recently and I'm trying to teach myself by watching videos.
- Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:32 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Decaling for Dummies
- Replies: 3
- Views: 21400
Re: Decaling for Dummies
Not all decal solvents or setting solutions are compatible with all decals. Test first.
Here's a Paul Budzik decal video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_rdwH1EGus
Here's a Paul Budzik decal video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_rdwH1EGus