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- Tue Jan 30, 2018 10:54 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Removing paint/ink from plastic signs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 26691
Re: Removing paint/ink from plastic signs
It helps if you have the MSDS for the degreaser/cleaner not the tire cleaner https://www.superclean.com/wp-content/u ... S-v2.0.pdf
- Thu Jan 04, 2018 2:14 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: cheap plastics or balaswood
- Replies: 15
- Views: 51860
Re: cheap plastics or balaswood
Check for your local plastics supplier, you should be able to get 4x8 foot sheets. Or order them online. Or hit the hardware store and see what they carry. You can get some pretty fine plywood.
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:23 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Safe acrylic paints for Bandai models?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17163
Re: Safe acrylic paints for Bandai models?
I use lacquers and alcohol based acrylics all the time on Bandai kits. I don't work with solvent based enamels. Alclad II, Tamiya, Mr. Hobby (Gunze), Lifecolor, Vallejo, etc. Yes, soaking some Bandai plastics (ABS IIRC) in turpentine will leech the polymers out making it brittle otherwise you're fin...
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:07 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Painting a Checkerboard pattern
- Replies: 10
- Views: 27593
Re: Painting a Checkerboard pattern
This is the method I'm talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8aRkpccKfE just done on a tinier scale.
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:03 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Painting a Checkerboard pattern
- Replies: 10
- Views: 27593
Re: Painting a Checkerboard pattern
There is a rather tedious and mask intensive way to mask checkerboard. It's done 2 stages using precision cut tape both as a spacer and mask. I'll see if I can dig up the tutorial.
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 3:30 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Source for super fine metal mesh?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 39089
Re: Source for super fine metal mesh?
Do you want wire mesh or perforated sheet? Wire mesh can go to fine fabric level where as perfed sheet can go down to single micron (or less).
- Sun Oct 08, 2017 5:14 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Superglue
- Replies: 33
- Views: 118200
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Superglue age hardens and becomes brittle. This is one of the reason I recommend the rubber impregnated Gorilla CA. Less brittle and less likely to pop apart. I've moved to Gorilla for a few reasons but have had no issues and use it on everything. Me too. Love the stuff and you can get it most plac...
- Mon Sep 11, 2017 1:32 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Rotating Police Strobe Lights Effect
- Replies: 15
- Views: 36826
Re: Rotating Police Strobe Lights Effect
Which is why I'd just order them. I'm a wimp when it comes to soldering tiny LEDs. Well, based on my experience building LED clusters for police lights I wouldn't think less of anyone who chose to buy them rather than build them... But did the site you linked sell the LED clusters? I thought it jus...
- Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:17 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Rotating Police Strobe Lights Effect
- Replies: 15
- Views: 36826
Re: Rotating Police Strobe Lights Effect
Which is why I'd just order them. I'm a wimp when it comes to soldering tiny LEDs.
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 11:44 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Tools of the Trade
- Replies: 48
- Views: 200478
Re: Tools of the Trade
And now, having gotten to play with a Godhand 5.0 flush cut sprue cutter I can tell you... yeah they're worth the $45.
- Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:28 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Rotating Police Strobe Lights Effect
- Replies: 15
- Views: 36826
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 5:22 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Black/blue paint
- Replies: 19
- Views: 43370
Re: Black/blue paint
I just found this on the internet: https://www.usagundamstore.com/products/alc-710-1oz-bottle-candy-cobalt-blue-enamel So I'm thinking, if I spray this over a black basecoat, I should end up with a really cool effect?? What's the difference between transparent paint, such as Tamiya Clear Blue and c...
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 5:20 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: What putty?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 36588
Re: What putty?
Okay, will do. Found it, still in shrink wrap. And a little bottle of love potion number nine, well, some kind of special tool cleaner, actually. That's their "safety solvent". Use it to smooth the putty out. You can also use water. As a note, despite the "non-toxic" label, it's...
- Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:11 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: What putty?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 36588
Re: What putty?
Try the Aves. You'll like it.
- Fri Aug 04, 2017 1:01 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Black/blue paint
- Replies: 19
- Views: 43370
Re: Black/blue paint
OK, thanks for all the tips and suggestions guys. After trolling the internet and spending hours researching and reading different sites etc, I have come to this conclusion. I really wanted a colour changing "Chameleon" paint, but I couldn't find a black-blue one. They have all sorts of o...
- Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:11 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Black/blue paint
- Replies: 19
- Views: 43370
Re: Black/blue paint
Preshade with clear blue overcoat. This is trick and you'll need a good light source (along with an airbrush) but spray the model black then use a really dark blue, like Tamiya XF-17 Sea Blue, as the shading. Then overcoat with clear blue, also from Tamiya. Just clear blue over black gives you gloss...
- Sun Jul 30, 2017 10:49 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Source For Ultra High Quality LEDs???
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26052
Re: Source For Ultra High Quality LEDs???
And make sure you are placing them in such a way that they're not overheating as that is death to LEDs. It'll kill a diode faster than overpower it. And how does one achieve that, the way in which the LEDs get placed is pretty much dictated by the model itself? What about securing them in place? I ...
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 5:25 pm
- Forum: Important Site News
- Topic: Forum Moderation
- Replies: 64
- Views: 389726
Re: Forum Moderation
We're here voluntarily. We catch stuff faster than you might realize. For every spam you see we've most likely deleted 3 more. We do our best but there's a limited # of us.
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:51 am
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: super realistic chrome
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17067
Re: super realistic chrome
And they are re-fillable if you balk @ the price
- Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:59 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: super realistic chrome
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17067
Re: super realistic chrome
They nice but take forever to cure hard. As Dave says. Neet-o but it doesn't replace Alclad in any way except convenience.
- Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:24 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Source For Ultra High Quality LEDs???
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26052
Re: Source For Ultra High Quality LEDs???
And make sure you are placing them in such a way that they're not overheating as that is death to LEDs. It'll kill a diode faster than overpower it.
- Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:34 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Source For Ultra High Quality LEDs???
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26052
Re: Source For Ultra High Quality LEDs???
Or if you insist on pre-wired try http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/
- Tue Jul 04, 2017 12:33 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Material weight limits for base to model supports
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14598
Re: Material weight limits for base to model supports
If I'm concerned about weight being a problem I'll see how much the model box, with sprue, deflects what ever I'm thinking of using for support. This is easily done by setting the box on edge, sliding the rod or tube under and lifting. Yes, you'll have to guide it with one hand to keep it from falli...
- Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:26 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Tools of the Trade
- Replies: 48
- Views: 200478
Re: Tools of the Trade
They do. I've sharpened them a couple of times. Usually just re-dressing the edge but I've had to re-edge a few also. My fault not theirs.
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:26 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Tools of the Trade
- Replies: 48
- Views: 200478
Re: Tools of the Trade
Light light http://www.micromark.com/Hobby-Hammer-w ... eable-Tips
Heck I've improvised with a decent spanner @ times.
The MicroMark chisels are nice, and they come pretty damned sharp but lose their edge faster than the Yellow House Model ones. YHM chisels are scary sharp.
Heck I've improvised with a decent spanner @ times.
The MicroMark chisels are nice, and they come pretty damned sharp but lose their edge faster than the Yellow House Model ones. YHM chisels are scary sharp.
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 9:13 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Tools of the Trade
- Replies: 48
- Views: 200478
Re: Tools of the Trade
Sharp chisel set and a light hammer. http://www.micromark.com/Miniature-Chisels-Set-Of-7
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 2:22 pm
- Forum: Important Site News
- Topic: Thank goodness you're back...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 78626
Re: Thank goodness you're back...
Would would have thought, beside the good doctor, that deuterium is needed for the perfect absinthe margaretta.
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 12:44 pm
- Forum: Important Site News
- Topic: Thank goodness you're back...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 78626
Re: Thank goodness you're back...
Fine YOUR plan. But you'd have never of thought of it had I not brought over the tequila and absinth
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 11:12 am
- Forum: Important Site News
- Topic: Thank goodness you're back...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 78626
Re: Thank goodness you're back...
MWAHAHAH! My plan is COMPLETE!Darth Humorous wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 7:51 pm Looks like the thread I started about post numbering has disappeared too.
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- Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:02 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Advice on Lighting Kits
- Replies: 19
- Views: 66669