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haven't used this resource yet, but thought it might be useful for someone. it's pretty comprehensive.
http://www.modelersite.com/Abr2003/engl ... gn_Eng.htm

Yeah and we all think the 'mom & pop hobby shop' is a rare thing these days! As intriguing as these machines are (& I use to work in rapid prototyping) I somehow am not that eager for their arrival in the consumer market.

Kylwell :Upgraded to a B+ earlier in the year Do you mean the Eclipse series HP-BS , or the High Performance Series HP-B Plus ? Just wanna be sure cus I'm in the market for an Airbrush too and I completely trust your judgement. What about compressors? anyone got a great one they wanna praise? or a ...

Cheaper to scratch build one yourself. Possibly more gratifying as well!

Oh yeah! thanks for mentioning that! I was actually wondering, when doing that does one mushroom the end after snipping the FO strands? if so approx how much do I need to leave sticking out in order to get it to mushroom? alternately is it better to mushroom the end first and then, instead of snippi...

Well it looks lie I've got some tests to run. Thanks for all the suggestions. And thank you robiwon for the pic that lets me know that it can work - now to see if I can get similar results! And thank you Pat Amaral for the suggestion of the gels, I was thinking about this for a plan b. And for plan ...

Ok please bare with me if this is a stupid question. I'm planning out the lighting for a 22" refit-A & I'm hoping to use a couple of white leds with fiberoptics for the marker lights. That's assuming I can colour the fiberoptic strands to the various colours I need. So is it possible to col...

Hey Paul!
I just ordered a few strips of these from the SSM shop for a few projects I'm working on. What'ss the big tease about? Can you give us any hints? I'm really curious as I've just started the first of 7 projects that will (Hopefully) all be lit. So come on, we won't tell anyone promise!

Well I guess they would be better as external spot lights. Anyone got a good idea for making tiny little Batman insignias? I got a diorama idea.

Well I was thinking of placing them inside the front end of the Nacelles with only the tips showing through. They also sell them in singles but not in white :cry: but I assume the singles are probably simillar in size. Check out the pic in this link where it's lighting up a magazine. http://www.flex...

Just wondering if anyone has used these, and what you think of the idea of using them for spot lighting a polar lights refit? http://www.flexiglow.com/products/LazerLED.htm

Well we called it a robot. Essentially the upper chamber contained two bowls of approx. 2.5L volume, both on pivot rods. One was above the other and over to the right, the other held a mixing paddle attached to a motor. Below these was a funnel with a replaceable liner in it and attached to the funn...

I used to work in a prototype shop. We used urethane resin that was mixed and degassed in the upper portion of a scratch built two level vacuum chamber, the lower section of which was 3.5'X3.5'X8', and was where the moulds were placed. once the resin was fully mixed it was poured into the mould, whi...

Sorry if this is an old topic to be responding to, but I couldn't help it. Using hair spray over decals is not a good idea. Sure it'll do the job, but it WILL yellow in a very short time period. Plus most hair sprays are alcohol based are they not? so you have to consider how this will affect the cl...

I think over all I prefer the colours on the uniform patterns to those in your last post. But thanks none the less. I think using uniform camo scheme on a a gundam might actually work well and seeing as it's completely fictional anyway I can probably get away with the impracticality of it. I mean th...

Is this for an SF or real world/near future camo scheme? If SF then you could go nuts with colours Well yeah. I finally broke down and got a couple of gundam kits : 178- MK II and MSZ-006 Zeta 2.0's but I can't stand the typical gundam colours so I thought I'd go more military. I'm actually thinkin...

Hi all I was wondering if I could get some suggestions of which colours to use in a four colour Urban Camouflage pattern - prf. Tamiya colours. I know the basics dark gray, light gray, black, white, but I just thought I'd see if anyone has used a set of colours that they were realy happy with. pics ...

I used to work in a rapid prototype shop and we did all of our tow part silly-cone molds as single pours, It's pretty easy once you get the hang of it - just like anything else I guess. What we did was to build a box for the part that was open on the top. across the top we placed copper welding rods...

Thanks a-lot, I really try not to shop at Wall-Mart if at all possible but I think in this case I might just have to pay them a visit. And yeah, about the whole LED voltage thing --- Man I've just got soooooooo much to learn about this stuff It's pretty intimidating actually. Anyone know of a step b...

Well I was thinking of building a housing for the battery that would blend it in to the display. But the "sealed lead acid gel" that you speak of souds . . . intriguing. I'll have to check it out. Off to Google then!

P.S. thanks for the advice.

Anyone thought of using a car battery to power the lighting for multiple kits? I've got five Kits I want to add lighting to (AMT Refit, Reliant, E-D, Excelsior, and a R/M Voyager)and I also plan on displaying them all on the same shelf. I was wondering if it would be possible to have them all powere...