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by Marco Scheloske
Fri Jun 28, 2019 2:03 am
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Dust when airbrushing
Replies: 10
Views: 37707

Re: Dust when airbrushing

Not really as a dust magnet, but the high humidity in the airbrushing area helps to decrease the amount of dust in the air a lot.
by Marco Scheloske
Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:28 am
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Dust when airbrushing
Replies: 10
Views: 37707

Re: Dust when airbrushing

It helps to spray water into the air just before airbrushing with a pump bottle. Some fellows put cardboard on the floor and walls on their spray booths and wet them before airbrushing. Helps a lot.
by Marco Scheloske
Tue Jun 19, 2018 12:14 am
Forum: Construction
Topic: Small power detail sander
Replies: 5
Views: 23802

Re: Small power detail sander

I own one, and I love it.
by Marco Scheloske
Wed Oct 18, 2017 11:00 am
Forum: Lighting & Electronics
Topic: Has Anyone Heard of "Gallery Glass?"
Replies: 6
Views: 21300

Re: Has Anyone Heard of "Gallery Glass?"

Good old window color. Available from countless manufacturers.
by Marco Scheloske
Wed Jun 07, 2017 2:55 pm
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Comic style color scheme help.
Replies: 7
Views: 29340

Re: Comic style color scheme help.

Do a Google picture search for "cell shading model kit". Dozens of very cool inspirational pics will show up.
by Marco Scheloske
Sat Mar 18, 2017 3:38 pm
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Brushes instead of air (oils - yutb)
Replies: 2
Views: 7762

Very cool!
by Marco Scheloske
Sat Jun 18, 2016 9:29 am
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Future floor wax beading up?
Replies: 6
Views: 10985

Dnd you touch it with your fingers during polishing? Skin oil might have this effect.
by Marco Scheloske
Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:05 am
Forum: Scratchbuilding
Topic: Better option for cutting brass tubing
Replies: 10
Views: 17270

ulvdemon wrote:Seriously! :( I am going to put my head down. Way too simple, even I can manage this. :)
Don't be embarassed - many modelers aren't aware of this little trick.
by Marco Scheloske
Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:36 am
Forum: Scratchbuilding
Topic: Better option for cutting brass tubing
Replies: 10
Views: 17270

Use simply a sharp knife, or a razor blade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk5MTEv4tps
by Marco Scheloske
Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:11 am
Forum: Scratchbuilding
Topic: Cost of 3D Printing?
Replies: 20
Views: 31092

Adam Baker wrote:Keep in mind that 3D printing goes by volume, and what you have is a pretty decent size (54 cm3), so its not going to be especially cheap.
At least at Shapeways it goes by volume of material finally needed. So a hollow variant will be MUCH cheaper than a solid one.
by Marco Scheloske
Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:52 am
Forum: Construction
Topic: Stupid Tenax-7R Question
Replies: 13
Views: 17304

Kylwell wrote: I brush mine on when needed, you just have to move quick.
That may work, but it is not the inteded way to use this kind of glue. The "dry fit than add glue"-method will work definitely (and create a very, VERY strong bond).
by Marco Scheloske
Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:23 am
Forum: Construction
Topic: Stupid Tenax-7R Question
Replies: 13
Views: 17304

I think my biggest problem is that Tenax is evaporating before I can get the hull-halves together. THAT's the error! Tenax is not supposed to be brushed onto the parts first and then holding them together. You have to assemble the parts first, dry , without glue. THEN take the Tenax and either a ve...
by Marco Scheloske
Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:02 am
Forum: Lighting & Electronics
Topic: Pegasus Alpha Centauri lighting
Replies: 17
Views: 19082

Cool... :8)
by Marco Scheloske
Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:41 am
Forum: Lighting & Electronics
Topic: Mercury 9 with animated engine lights
Replies: 7
Views: 6123

but it still needs a modicom of soldering experience to connect up Too sad. I'm searching forever now for a controller that does "just" such a flickering thruster effect and nothing else. Just attach some LEDs to it and you're there - that is what I hope to be able to find some day. And I...
by Marco Scheloske
Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:16 am
Forum: Lighting & Electronics
Topic: Mercury 9 with animated engine lights
Replies: 7
Views: 6123

Re: Mercury 9 with animated engine lights

Ant wrote:Using my own controller for this to flicker the engines
LOVE the flicker effect - you should consider to sell the controller. Really!
by Marco Scheloske
Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:54 am
Forum: Construction
Topic: very oily resin kit
Replies: 27
Views: 46314

I own a very old resinkit from the 80ties which is STILL oiling. Strange stuff. I wish it would produce gold the same way "out of thin air"... :8)
by Marco Scheloske
Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:13 am
Forum: Construction
Topic: very oily resin kit
Replies: 27
Views: 46314

It may be one of those cases where you have to throw it into the waste, as it may NEVER stop to be oily - mostly this happens because of a badly mixed resin.
by Marco Scheloske
Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:46 am
Forum: Hover Tank Challenge
Topic: Magnets
Replies: 3
Views: 16223

Old Wombat wrote:The builder used positioning of the magnets to prevent movement.
Without a kind of fastening it is impossible to use simple steady magnets to hold a model in place. You need an electronic magnet to do so.
by Marco Scheloske
Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:52 am
Forum: Construction
Topic: Modelling 101, a beginner's guide to model building
Replies: 14
Views: 10141

Very cool idea, and well made!!

A video DVD with the episodes woul dbe cool, to be shown at modelling exhibitions.
by Marco Scheloske
Sat Mar 12, 2011 5:28 pm
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Decal pronunciation
Replies: 19
Views: 20737

I say "Dee-Cal".

Sounds better than "Wasserschiebebild" (water slide picture), the correct german term for it.
by Marco Scheloske
Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:55 pm
Forum: Finishing
Topic: how do you remove superglue frost?
Replies: 7
Views: 9746

Never heard about a way to remove cyanacrylat frost, other than to repaint the affected area, or to sand it down and polish it (in case it is a clear part).
by Marco Scheloske
Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:42 am
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Weathering no-nos? Critiques requested
Replies: 5
Views: 3951

Also, if I understand correctly from the text, the poster didn't actually paint them, they're prototypes from Revell that he or she assembled. So perhaps the lesson is "Don't have your models painted and weathered by an international corporation"? No - I know the builder, and the lesson i...
by Marco Scheloske
Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:10 pm
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Tigermeet... What order to go in?
Replies: 28
Views: 53491

Very cool model. Well done!
by Marco Scheloske
Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:20 pm
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Custom decals not lying down
Replies: 8
Views: 8731

I always use "Micro liquid decal film" as a sealer for inkjet decals. It is the same stuff like the decalfilm you print onto, so it reacts the same way. No curling.
by Marco Scheloske
Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:09 am
Forum: Finishing
Topic: whats the fastest way to remove brushed on acrylic
Replies: 19
Views: 24906

BERT aka MODEL MAKER wrote:I will have to try that airbrush cleaner. sounds like it will save a lot of soaking time.
Indeed.
by Marco Scheloske
Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:38 am
Forum: Finishing
Topic: whats the fastest way to remove brushed on acrylic
Replies: 19
Views: 24906

Dowanol.

This stuff is the main part of the more or less new "Revell airbrush clean" - and it removes ANY kind of paint within seconds (really!) without harming polystyrene or resin.
by Marco Scheloske
Mon Jan 11, 2010 4:06 am
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Interplanetary UFO finishing and decaling
Replies: 12
Views: 16468

If you use a candle, don't hold the plastic above the flame or in the flame, but aside it. Keep the sprue rotating and moving, so you soften about a half-inch. Once the plastic starts to sag, you're almost there. I don't know whether you already do this. I tried a thousand ways, it was even showed ...
by Marco Scheloske
Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:21 pm
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Interplanetary UFO finishing and decaling
Replies: 12
Views: 16468

TER-OR wrote:Practice, practice, practice.
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt... :?

It seems I`m missing the necessary DNS to be able to do it properly... :oops:
by Marco Scheloske
Sun Jan 10, 2010 3:42 pm
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Interplanetary UFO finishing and decaling
Replies: 12
Views: 16468

You can "cheat" the seams with stretched sprue. :oops: That`s my Nemesis: I can try as hard as I`m able to, I never figured out how to manage the "streched sprue"-story. No way. The sprue will ever snap after just a few millimeters, or it willmelt completely. Even if I had to do...
by Marco Scheloske
Sun Jan 10, 2010 3:46 am
Forum: Finishing
Topic: Interplanetary UFO finishing and decaling
Replies: 12
Views: 16468

tonyG2 wrote:I like the glow effect but see it as a novelty that would soon wear off.
Well, I want to build a "flying dutchman in space", so I`ll not paint mine (besides some detail painting).

Still wonder what to do with the seamlines...