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Oh big thanks for the tip!

Hmm, I see Plastruct has quite a selection of different glues for different plastics. Unfortunately it seems I can't get these over here in europe / Germany. Thanks, I will try to get something similar.

https://abload.de/img/51ut-prmdtl._ac_cckzi.jpg I have this "Visible Human Body" kit by Lindberg and just had a closer look at it. The plastic is very soft and feels kinda waxy. Tamiya cement won't do a thing and even superglue struggled holding two parts together. Which glue is recommend...

Well, I would recommend you use some sort of Aluminium-Plastic-Composite material like the original Dibond. This is quite light (at 3 mm strength), cheaper than metals, easy to work with, can be engrooved and / or bend, comes in different colors (even a brushed metal look) and keeps rigid / sturdy e...

Someone posted these on Facebook. About 1.5" in diameter.

I hope it's not "hijacking", but I think that thread serves well to post more articles or in my case videos about interesting scratchbuilding ideas. Found this CTG guy on YouTube and he certainly has some interesting tips and tricks for scratchbuilding. Well worth to check out some of his ...

https://abload.de/img/nexus2cee_unnamed-10pvksw.png Kotobukiya released one of my favourite space ships a couple of years ago. It's a Player 1 Ship from the videogame "Raystorm". I would love to build this drydock you can see in the image above. There are not many reference pics for this,...

Is there actual decal sheet paper for laser printers?

Wow awesome. Also: Very nice models behind the first link you posted there. Great works.

Aw man, that looks so awesome. Love it.

You're a crazy, crazy man. Love it. Great detail so far. A huge ship like that needs its size.

That's super super gorgeous.

Imho the most important thing with scribing panel lines is indeed patience. Lots of. It's not the most fun thing to do with modeling (I think it's up par with sanding) but very rewarding if you get it right. I use a "scribing tool" I once bought in a hobby shop. It looks like a pen with a ...

Oh, well yes of course. If you look from a bit farther, it's always good to have a plan, where you want to have greeblies / detail and how it should roughly look. I was more talking about the actual bits and pieces and how to assemble them. You can't just put one tank greeblie next to the other and ...

I always try to make it look, like it'd work. It's also really helpful to split up greeblies and glue more smaller ones together, than to just take a tank part and glue it onto the hull. I don't think about a purpose for this greeblie or that. Piping looks always great and I love to do that, but it ...

This japanese fellow is building a Death Star II and yes, he used Photoetched ladders and bits of styrene. LOTS OF IT.
http://dorobou.blog.so-net.ne.jp/archive/c2300451610-1

Good god. So huge.

Man, you're crazy. That looks quite great.

It's so huge, you could sit on it and ride it.

Leukirix: Heh I know this one. What I meant was a picture with the finished Millenium Falcon.

Awesome. Really awesome. Well done. You should include a Pic with yourself holding it, though. For size comparison!

Wow. Most realistic explosions I have seen yet. I demand more and bigger pictures!

I once tried it the simple way: I mixed the pastels with water and added them to the model. Once dry you can feather / soften the edges with a Q-Tip.

Also bear in mind, that pastels work best on matte coats.

Ah, I do have one of these here. Shops often use those to paint on Glass or signs in general. It's like fluid chalk in a marker. It dries out completely flat, too. Dunno if this will be of good use for scale modelers, though.

Oh yes, one of my fav builds as well! Incredible. Sorry, that I probably can't answer your question properly. I am still using Revell Aqua Color colors and on top of that I am still painting with a brush

Ah, thanks for the link. Great pictures, which explain the technique nearly by themselfes. Very nice. I guess this technique is hard to do when you are (still) painting your models with a brush, right? I noticed, that my paintcoat is always quite thick when I use my brush. Now imagine adding 2 diffe...