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Are the Modge Podge brand acrylic clear coats (marketed in gloss, semi-gloss, and flat) a useful substitute for the floorwax. I happen to have a can I used on a card models since as a spray it doesn't soak the paper (although on this occasion, the paper was already painted in silver enamel - normall...

IIRC there are similar products available commercially for clothing effects.

https://www.aliexpress.com/popular/led- ... thing.html

Is this link that MF posted working for you guys? http://www.paint4models.com/paintchart/paintconversionchart20100101b.html# It goes to the site for me but I needed to download the conversion table because the online table does nothing when I click on it. Strange. The link above no longer seems to ...

Interesting post on youtube for using oil paints to achieve airbrush effects without an airbrush. I'm sure a lot of you know about this already (thread on oil coats being current), but anyway. I found it informative...and besides I don't have an airbrush.

https://youtu.be/BitmaECqO30

Out of curiosity went to find out if there was any thread over at theRPF and alas, while there is one, there doesn't seem to be any pics of the build. From the discussion it does seem to be as a foundation a 1/48 scale f-14(s) married to a 1/32 AH-1G, and some Harrier missile launchers Too bad the h...

Well, there is an "art of" book out there, alas I don't have it so I'm limited in what I can say about it, but I did look through it at the local B&N and it did have some images of the set. Also there are youtube making of videos where you can catch some shots of the flight deck. does ...

For those looking into 3d printing, at Arisia there was a panel on 3d printers and one thing that I hadn't thought about was feedstock. One of the things mentioned was that while many of these printers use similar raw materials for printing, many of the printers themselves are set to only accept off...

There is 3d information in any 2d image, provided you are aware of a couple of things, the physical information of the lens type and either a sense of the distance from the lens or the scale of the object you are looking at. Having 2 slightly divergent views allows the definition of distance to be d...

I've noticed that most packing plastic is no longer code 6 for polystyrene, but instead 1 poly ethylene, 2 high quality pe, occasionally 3 (pvc?), and quite frequently on the clear bubbles 5 for polypropylene. Now from the talk about the plastics on the new hasbro Star Wars MF and X-wing, what are t...

Just saw a page off the on the bench thread where someone was using nail acrylic varnish along with acrylic powder from a beauty supply store to make fill windows-trekkrrific's mach 5 build actually, hit it by accident following pic stream. Unfortunately outside of pics not much text on the how to. ...

I'm interested in following up on a steampunkish what if (steam powered airplane), and while I was originally thinking of doing it just as a card model, I'm thinking a tissue and stick version might be better. Unfortunately I've never built any tissue and stick anything, so I was wondering if anyone...