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The only home/office type printers I know of that will print white are the Alps series printers which, to my knowledge, are no longer in production and kinda hard to find. My guess, the alternative would have to be to take the file to a print shop and see what they can do. or contact one of the guys...

If you don't want to do the mail order thing, you can get wooden plaques like the ones in Romulan Spy's link (along with other styles) at arts and crafts stores like Michael's and Beverly's. That is if, like me, you dno't have access to any of those Hobby Lobby stores

all I want to do is effectivley fill a seam. A good retailer won't try to sell you something you don't need. Sorry. You misunderstood my reply. I'm recommending the Sampler Pak because each product has specific strengths and weeknesses in different areas. You should try the different types to see w...

Get the sampler pack and try em all!

CultTVMan has a couple products from VoodooFX that would probably work for you but they're kind of pricey in my opinion.

Try these guys:

http://www.centuryinterconnect.com/

And these guys:

http://www.gradconn.com/index.html

I don't know if either one sells to individuals though.

There's always something like The Chopper. I still need to get one of these things myself.

irishtrek wrote:There's always glow in the dark paints.

That's like...

philosophical.


Almost...


metaphysical

1. Get one of those cheapie electric toothbrushes. 2. Cut the bristles flush with the surface of the little rotating part of the brush tip. 3. Trim down a small swatch of the loops part of a piece of velcro - make a circular piece about 1/4" to 3/8" in diameter and superglue it to the end ...

Heat shrink is a great way to bundle fibers with the LEDs. You just have to be careful not to heat it up too fast. Personally, I don't like using a flame to heat the HS tubing. I prefer to use either a soldering iron or a heat gun. If you have a pencil torch, you can even get an attachment specifica...

I got my last couple bottles through HobbyLink Japan but, according to an ad in this month's FSM, you may be able to get it a little cheaper through the Great Models website.

I built my booth out of a large clear plastic storage bin, drier vent/hose, bathroom fan, 18" flourescent light fixture, and a small AC filter. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/pamaral1161/Booth1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/pamaral1161/booth2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/...

Larry "Scifi58" Johnson has a couple paragraphs about how to weather with salt in his On-line Build article here . He also did a nice little half hour seminar on how to do it at this year's WF. But of course you missed that one :evil: :P :D I'm kidding. I'm a kidder. I kid. That's what I d...

I remember reading someone's post here a long time ago about shooting the stuff through the airbrush. He said that it generated spiderwebs as it hit the model. I got that too the one time I tried shooting it but I don't remember what the solution was. It looked like gray cotten candy. I thought it m...

This page has several different circuits for touch sensative switches. This one looks particularly simple.

Repeat after me: Epoxy putty is your freind. Apply as little or as much as you need. Enough to fill the interior of a runabout??? Are you serious? Would be kinda heavy... Think You won't have to fill it. I would use the Aves Apoxy Sculpt for this. Combine the two components to make a good sized wad...

I have some of this stuff. Haven't tried it for masking yet but it looks like it will work really well as long as you burnish it down pretty good. http://tst.glad.com/pressnseal/about.html I did try just masking an area of a model with it but not painting just to see how easy it is to work with. You...

Crash- My advice: Go to Radio Shack and buy the Engineer's Notebook by Forrest M. Sims III. There's a whole series of them. They're cheep and indespensible and they'll tell you everything you need to know about electricity and electronics to do what you're aiming to do. Best of all, they're quick an...

Instead of pouring out of the jar, I use an eyedropper. I'm guaranteed to get the paint where I want it and it helps to precicely measure ratios when I'm mixing colors (two drops of this color and six drops of that color give me a fairly exact 25%/75% ratio). Also you can mix the paint right in the ...

I always liked the concept of the little cradle that came with the AMT TOS Enterprise when it was re-issued a few years back. Notice I said I liked the concept? I didn't say I liked that particular stand. My suggestion is to make a cradle of the same sort as the one mentioned above but make it out o...

Consider getting the Galaxy PE Trench Cover for Wires from Don's Light & Magic. Scroll down to the third item on the page.

By the way, a 1/650 Enterprise D would be a pretty large model. Almost 39" long in fact. The larger of the only two AMT kits produced was 1/1400 (or there about).

If you want to use any of the pics I sent you, be my guest. That's what I sent them to you for. Do you need some kind of release?

I plan on bending over backwards to get there next year ( and with my bad back, I can tell you that's no easy feat).