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I am a worshiper at the House of Aves. It's everything that Kylwell has said, and it has the added bonus of being able to be smoothed with ordinary tap water.

I've used it on resin, styrene and vinyl kits, without a single problem.

Sounds like a plan.

We may need to rearrange the order for the WF entry. I'm not going to be at WF 2015, as my wife and I are taking our kids to Florida next October. My eldest daughter turns 16 next year in November, and family friends have offered to share their condo in the Orlando area so we don't have to pay for h...

Well . . . . how about hollow-cast, or roto-cast?

But be assured, we won't re-cast!

Yeah, I know. We're the ones that built the Gyno-Bot at Iron Modeler this year.

I'm happy to work with Matt . . . as long as the model doesn't end up becoming a huge robot with machine-gun breasts.

Oh, what the heck. Count me in!

Anybody close to Michigan?

Woodland Scenics also makes stuff in a variety of scales. Check out your local hobby shop in their railroad supplies section.

Already going to do that. The sheets are 12 inches long, and the board is a 1x12, which is actually 11.75 inches.

Thanks for the input!

I have a brand-new tube of 5-minute epoxy that I haven't opened yet, so that might be an option. I'll also look into the contact cement, but I'd like to have a little bit of working time before the glue sets so I can move things into final position.

Thanks again!

I'm working on a project, and I need to bond several sheets of 0.25 mm plain Evergreen styrene to a base that's made of a 1x12 piece of poplar. I'm trying to create a straight, level surface. The wood has a very nice, smooth surface, and it's not warped (I checked carefully when I was buying the pie...

I know a lot of folks pre-thin their paint in a small mixing bottle before pouring it into the cup. It's useful if you're going to be doing a large project that will take several paint applications to complete. That way you already have paint ready to go when it's time to do the next coat.

Don't forget about using Silly Putty.

http://www.starshipmodeler.com/basics/rd_silly.htm

Yeah, I know . . . shameless plug, as I wrote the article back in 2007.

Ken can't tell if it's tacky or not. It's had one coat of enamel primer and two coats of lacquer put over the masking.

I'm posting this question for Cydonia, who's at work at the moment. He's texting me with the information so I can post it. He's working on a styrene project and applied a base Tamiya clear green acrylic coat. He used two layers of latex-based liquid railroad mask that he got while he was in Florida ...

My old airbrush city compressor took a crap on itself after sitting unused for... well, too long. My old Airbrush City compressor crapped out on me, too, but it did it right in the middle of a project! I ended up buying an Iwata SmartJet at WonderFest this year and it rocks. Tom Grossman's store (m...

Agreed. Dime-store style masks (with the rubber band holding it to your head) are usually made of vacuform styrene. I have a Boba Fett costume at home that has a plastic helmet that I'm pretty sure is slightly thicker styrene, but the halves are held together with Velcro.

That's kinda the whole point of building something in the 24-hour timeframe. A lot of us, myself included, get bogged down in the details, such as gathering references, scratchbuilding additional details, trying for that "perfect" paint job/decal application. What ends up happening is that...

And we have winners! THIRD PLACE Winner: Ed "Bellerophon" Bailey Entry: Star Blazers Mini Comet Empire Missile ship Prize: Choice of an AMT 1:48 Naboo N-1 Starfighter kit (Ziplocked) or an AMT TIE Interceptor (sealed) SECOND PLACE Winner: Jose “El Gato” Henriquez Entry: Gizmotron 1:2500 Kl...

Here are the entries in the first One Day Build Challenge. Entry 01 Gizmotron 1:2500 Klingon Bird of Prey Entry 02 Star Blazers Mini Comet Empire Missile Ship Entry 03 "Prohibition 2212" - Moonshiners in Hazzard Prefecture drive the venerable General Li to outrun the law Voting will be ope...

Got three entries in, and I'll get the photos uploaded and posted on Saturday night. Voting will be open for a week, closing on the 11th. Been a long week, and I've been going bonkers at work. My kids are gone to summer camp, but I still haven't had time to get anything done around the house. :oops:

Bellerophon wrote:I don't see any such implication in Rule 5, but hey, it's your contest, run it any way you like.

Take a look at the other thread. It's open to anyone who has completed anything.

Whoever has built something, send your entries to me at sfmkdmaster@hotmail.com I don't care if they've been displayed here or not. Let's just get something done so we can award some prizes, cuz we've been trying to do this for four months now. If you've built something in the required 24-hour perio...

Right at the beginning, before the numbered sections. First off, Nicholas and I are going to bow out and not participate in the contest version of the challenge because of the administration portion. We want to offer folks an anonymous posting and voting system similar to what Starship Modeler has o...

Nicely done!

However . . . . we still only have one "official" entry, as those that have been posted on the boards here are ineligible to participate because we know who built them.

Correct. No posting here, but send everything to sfmkdmaster@hotmail.com

I'll upload the photos to my Photobucket site, and then I'll post a poll here so y'all can vote for the winner.

Welcome to the insanity!

OK, I got the one-day build done in eight days. ](*,) Here it is. Since I blew the deadline, I did more with it, like printing a decal to replace the sticker in the box. Very nicely done! If you'd be willing to write a review of your build-up, I'd really like to have it to post on my website. I hav...

Bellerophon wrote:I'm glad to see the deadline extended again. I've got one more unbuilt Comet Empire ship.

Check the other threads, because I announced that I extended the deadline one last time, through the end of July.

Rebooted for one more month, and we're counting the entry that's already been submitted.