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as far as i know this is just an inkjet with smudge/water proof ink. it's a Epson WF-2540

i am wondering what is a good, simple filler to use that when dry sands nice and easily?

i think i have asked a few people in the past so i thought this time i'd ask on the boards.... can you take a sheet of .010" plastic and run it through your pc's printer without any damage or issues? i was just wondering as it would help for getting some things cut out vs trying to draw small d...

nope, not to be sneaky or avoiding someone else's product, but mainly seeing how it turns out. i am also thinking of dragging objects to make new ones, such as dragging a pearl pin head through the clay just a bit to make a half cylinder and maybe a few other shapes rather than trying to shape a few...

last week i got a few straight pins from my neighbor and i began adding drops of super-glue to them. after about 8 tries, i stopped and gave them a shot of primer. after doing this i see that there wasn't all that much of a build-up of glue on the pin heads, but it was better than nothing, so i took...

if i was scratch building on a regular basis bulk wouldn't be a problem, but i don't. but i will take a look at them, they might just twist my arm....... i stopped at AC Moore today looking to see if i could find them half pearl bits but all i kept seeing was 2-6mm rhinestones and only 6mm half pear...

i am looking for some shallow plastic domes so i can build some larger scales of my modular star hauler the domes i am looking for need to be pretty close to these sizes: for my 4222 scale build dome - 95mm wide and aprox 15-20mm tall disc - 85mm wide and aprox 1/8 or 2.5mm thick (i can build them u...

was just at Micheals looking for them pearls and only found them clear colored 6-8 sided bits - hope to hit AC Moore in the next few days and hope they have them

didn't get to the train shop just yet, but i was just looking over at Starship Combat and saw someone over there doing some scratch builds of their won and saw these little red domes - he said they are from a Scrap Book thing, some sort of detail packet of bling so next time i am out i'm going to st...

well, i'll be ordering more rubber this week and will stop in the local craft stores to look at the pins and see if they don't have one or two with nice heads on them that i can then mold and cast-up. also while i'm out this week, i'm going to try to stop in the small train hobby shop to see if they...

i use Smooth-On rubber and resins but have stuck with this brush on barrier from Polytek (have to get more, not sure if they still carry it) that is like a vaseline and mineral spirits (or something). i have found that i need to brush on 3 light coats of it allowing about 15 minutes of dry time betw...

okay, just started to take a look at http://www.archertransfers.com/SurfaceDetailsMain.html and was about to say i'd have to see pictures of the items next to a ruler to get a feel of their size when i saw it was all on clear decal paper decals are not what i am in need of, i need actual detailing b...

i was going to look in Micheal's and AC Moore, but then i remembered that they did away with a lot of that nice little stuff a few years back.....

well, i started looking here in SSM's store for some detail bits like they use to sell.

no, not looking to count the rivets, looking to use them (and anything else tiny) as some detail in my brim trench

Andrew, i'll look a that link tonight

i just started looking for some tiny detailing bits like rivets, chips and details so i can get back to my Modular Star Hauler master and see if i can't get it finished but i'm not really seeing anything about. http://www.starshipmodeler.net/talk/viewtopic.php?t=112874 i don't want to go and buy a m...

out of a tube or out of my bucket?

I'm getting close to drilling out the Tiger 1's hull for the road wheel arms and the bushings before i start glassing the hull, but am trying to see if there is anything that i can use to plug the holes perfectly, but not bond to the fiberglass or resin. this when when i do glass, and it's dried, i ...

got the PM, just haven't had a chance to call (the boiler guy was just here telling us it would be about $7,500 to replace the current system if we wanted to have it done, so i'm loking over the list now of things that still need to be done - tomorrow isn't looking too good either). BUT i did manage...

DennisH - thanks for the links and i'll try to get to look at them here shortly Joseph Osborn - ya, just a few questions, and never a dumb one (the dumb one is when you never ask it). I have heard about a green colored release and that it can make for ugly if brushed in thick streaks. but as i don't...

yup, I need help and Lucy can't help me here. I'm looking to find good help for everything relating to making fiberglass shells. anyone who actually does this kind of work and can help talk me through this kind of work could be my new friend I'm looking to use rubber molds, so i have that area cover...

(posted this over at Starship combat late last night) and now as to the (current) culprit causing this problem........ first, i want to start back to yesterday morining when i went and cast these parts. with the mold in the tank, i filled it, filled the 2 other parts, then took another one of my sma...

kenlilly106 - as to any changes from the last time, i can't think of any. if i had this much trouble the last time, i'm sure i would have remembered this time around. still mixing resin the same why i always have from the begining as to air bubbles in the resin, if they are in there, they are small ...

kenlilly106 - no it was the only one being done at that time (i just don't have room for all th emolds i currently use, so some stay in the tanks). it's the same resin i've been using for a while now, Smooth Cast 321 and yes, this is the same way i had the mold the last time modelnutz - adding rubbe...

DasPhule, sorry, no leaks in the mold, was one of the first things i checked kenlilly106, i thought about that to, so i cast the saucer by itself and it still came out the same way. i have even been leaving the mold in the tank when i'm injecting the resin just to make sure i'm not making it gulp ai...

ah, the squish mold method, i've heard of these mystical creatures, thought they were long extinct if nothing more than sometime told in old fairy tales... since i started casting and learned of the injection method, i rarely (if ever) have bad castings (other than the first time casting a new part)...

I have never had such a probelm with a mold not working as I'm currently having with the Akira's saucer. i did this mold the same as i would have with any other saucer, vented all the highest spots, inject the resin from down below, and out of about 12+ castings, not 1 has come out right. i took som...

sort of like them holloween mini cauldron?

interesting thought ........ I thought if i could find something or some way of making the flame hollow, i could fill it with some blinking LED's to make it look like a flame from a distance

after putting together these cheesy import candles for the front lawn, i'm wanting to make my own candles using PVC (or maybe clear tubing), but am having trouble trying to think of something to use for the flame part. i'll want to light it, so it'll have to be clear, but just can't come up with any...

treker - what's wrong with using the stock tank lid? i use one of my 2 gallon pressure tanks as a vac tank as is (other than plugging all of the opening)

and just where in Pa are you?

was it? i forget if it was Norton's or McAfee that use to confuse some of my bmp files as possible virus's a ways back