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Welcome! I'm sure we can learn from you as well!

I use my teeth.

I just use a "very fine" brush (sometimes even one bristle) and a light that I have with a magnifyer that looks like this!

It takes ALOT of patience. But that lamp makes it significantly easier!

You could just build them all out of metal, then leave them outside for a few years.

Actually, this is all some great advice.

It's be fun to get a kit made of this. Since there's a McQuarrie X-Wing and A-Wing.

Good advice! Just working on a possible master now myself. Glad I read this!

Those look great! I'd love to see the Wing Commander stuff in 1/72 though. Not into gaming miniatures - but the detail looks fantastic!

Just reading the title of this thread made me go "wha?" It sounds like Engrish or something.

Okay, I'll try to pick some up tomorrow. Yeah, they were applied over a gloss - but it was a gloss finish color, not a clear gloss. I've never had trouble with this before.

I'm usually pretty good at applying decals, but I've got a kit that my decals are across a lot of uneven surface - they looked good when they were wet they, but now that they've dried they've lifted and they're not going down into the dips. I didn't use a decal set, but I've been using a decal solve...

CRAP! I just went and built a whole pile of it, painting and everything, and completely forgot to take any pictures! AAAAARGH!!!! Doesn't look like I'll be done in a day anyway. Have to try again before the 30th.....

Sorry. Scratch that, I found them here http://www.starshipmodeler.net/talk/vie ... hp?t=99819 .

Kinda helps to look first before asking.......

What are the rules?

That's good to know! I was just out yesterday and couldn't find Future anywhere! Now I'll have to look again!

Hmmmm.....

Yeah, I fiigured the resolution might be on the low side. But a friend of mine wants an excuse to build one, so I figure it might work for some good basic shapes, then detail it up after.

Anyone heard of these?

http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.fabathome.org/
http://www.makerbot.com/

They're a build your own kind of thing.

Andrew Gorman wrote:Lego parts can work too!

Uh, yeah... but don't tell your kids you're raiding thier LEGO bin.

Been looking for this stuff, great thread!

Just curious, what are the best/easiest/cheapest 3D modelling programs? I work on a PC so Mac stuff is out.

Lots of drilling and careful carving out of the solid parts. Very careful carving....

I have gotten a "pick" that a dentist uses to pick at your teeth. I can't remember what they're called, but they're sharp and they curve - Dentists have to toss these often, if you ask one, they might just give you an old one. That's how I got mine - sterilize it and ouala! Instsnt free sc...

I build most of what I need using the telescopic K&S brass rod and tubing. I've built a ships crane, and a retractable ships mast using the K&S product to simulate hydraulics. :8) And Evergreen tubing, while not as robust nor as refined as K&S tubing, also works. I've built several item...

I will be working on kitting some Expanded Universe Star Wars stuff, and was thinking about how to include landing gear that works. I'll keep you in mind. I think it would be great to have a ship that can be either flight or landed, depending on whimsy, but most kits you have to choose one or the ot...