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- Tue May 09, 2017 9:41 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Tamiya Clear coat
- Replies: 21
- Views: 25869
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...
- Mon May 01, 2017 1:53 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: LED Filaments
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14681
IIRC there are similar products available commercially for clothing effects.
https://www.aliexpress.com/popular/led- ... thing.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/popular/led- ... thing.html
- Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:14 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Paint Equivalents
- Replies: 35
- Views: 133308
re: Paint Equivalents
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 ...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 3:50 pm
- Forum: Finishing
- Topic: Brushes instead of air (oils - yutb)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8442
Brushes instead of air (oils - yutb)
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
https://youtu.be/BitmaECqO30
- Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:03 am
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Buck Rogers Scorpion / Gnat / Anopheles enemy starfighter?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 20260
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...
- Sun Mar 22, 2015 3:39 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: Photos of the Lander's flight deck from "Interstellar&q
- Replies: 1
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- Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:33 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: 3d Printers
- Replies: 35
- Views: 77504
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...
- Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:24 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: 3d Printers
- Replies: 35
- Views: 77504
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...
- Thu Jan 15, 2015 12:45 pm
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: What works and doesn't work on plastics 1, 2, 3, and 5
- Replies: 6
- Views: 23603
What works and doesn't work on plastics 1, 2, 3, and 5
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...
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 11:35 am
- Forum: Construction
- Topic: Easiest way to fill windows
- Replies: 22
- Views: 59675
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. ...
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 4:50 pm
- Forum: Scratchbuilding
- Topic: anybody know a site for balsa tips
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5060
anybody know a site for balsa tips
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...