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The only gloss coat I know that yellows over time is Testors. I stay away from that. Future floor acrylic, whatever its name now, will yellow a bit after about 6, 7, 8, years or so. A few months ago found this buried in back of bottom cabinet. Label says copyright 2011 so it is not older than that,...

If I hadn't been able to tell by the Fujimi, the hex base shows it to be 1/72 or 1/76 model: I forget what Fujimi billed theirs as.
Hmm, will have to look up about the contest, haven't looked at any of the contests for ages.

Coming together quite nicely. And I'm liking that train parts got involved.

Somewhere at some time in both magazines and forums it has been mentioned that auto body shops often have tools to do this. Or maybe what was said back then is not true any more; I now wonder after poking around in Google a bit. did find this conversation, http://www.chevytalk.org/fusionbb/showtopic...

Ah, Starship Modeler's own store has a book, a new one, https://starshipmodeler.biz/shop/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_id=8426 Out of This World Modeling (2017) Out of This World Modeling, edited by FineScale Modeler's Aaron Skinner, presents 16 all-new projects from the exciting ...

Aha, some Millenium Falcon images here show hits as melted punctures, https://imgur.com/gallery/Zt9Y4 specifically, https://i.imgur.com/TSGg4En.jpg which was found from this a rticle https://gizmodo.com/these-insanely-detailed-star-wars-models-are-truly-work-1649565509 These Insanely Detailed Star W...

Hey there! Basics ... hmm, that's a good question, and having been modeling for almost 5 decades I'm not sure how to describe the very beginnings of weathering because it is so intuitive now. Well, hey, here comes an idea - reentry, look at images of Space Shuttle after reentry and note where it app...

Wow man, 3 months later and no reply at all from OP. Being a big user of Tamiya paints I am interested in this.

Since early 1980s I've used number 80, 79, 78, bits for various things in model trains such as adding metal grab irons to plastic body shells. Best I've been able to determine is that there is no easy way and bits will eventually break in much the same way as how cats will eventually hack up hairbal...

My dear friend SiaoMouse is back in the hospital for the fourth time with a recurrent brain tumour that affects his optic nerve, among other things. His girlfriend, Nikita - also a dear friend - is out of her mind with worry and loneliness, and I don't know what to say to her anymore. She is very d...

More landing legs and a wee bit on the cargo doors. Pic 63 PFT Phaéton 063 I'm afraid the landing gear pattern is a bit narrow ... oh, well. I didn't really fit anywhere else. Besides, who needs landing gear when at the High Port? (For those of you unfamiliar with the 'Traveller' game, every planet...

I've got vinyl gloves that I use for several things, handling raw meat, breaking eggs, cleaning cat litter boxes, handling bug spray. Will make a note to use them with this.

Candy I think has metallic flecks in it. Will have to play in Google.
Found these,
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/thr ... aint.6653/
https://www.autopia.org/forums/hot-tub/ ... t-job.html

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.

A whole new take on the "spoon theory" eh; spoon color theory.
(I happen to have rather more experience than I'd like to with the original spoon theory, oh well, such is life)

Southwest forests, is that a recipe for a"Russian Iron" finish? No, Russia Iron is grey. I have been a train guy for a very long time. There is a very good Yahoo group named Early Rail and another named Civil War Railroads. There several museum researchers in there and other historical an...

Hmm. From painting model locomotive boilers I have an idea except for the pearlescent part. A clean and glossy black finish will to some degree or another reflect the sky's blue when lit and viewed from the right angles; some examples from a popular rail photography website, http://www.railpictures....

Contemptibly poor is the characterization I would apply to the whole situation.

Something I haven't seen mentioned as a factor here, and do not know enough different LED to know if it is a universal truth, is that different colors of LED take different values of resistor even running off the very same voltage and current source. I learned that from model railroad signal kits.

Here 9 months later the links bring up that 3rd party hosting notice. I second trying the Aves, and I use it on all of my projects. What I like to do is glue the two parts, say a nacelle, then lightly scribe the seam and sand to rough it up a bit. Then roll small strips of Aves into the seam so it l...

Maybe I'm imagining things which aren't likely, but how long until they go from spam to data theft?

That's a model scale you don't see built much! Magnets are an interesting idea, I'd not thought of that.

It was interesting to be off doing other hobbies for a couple years then check in to find this chaos.

And it is looking like the spammers are bright enough to pick a time of day - o dark thirty and the like - where there is less likelihood of a moderator being online at the time they hit.

Dobber wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 6:02 amWTH is happening around here lately?

Systemic failures are being exploited?

onezero wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2017 10:14 pm Your patience is appreciated.

I'm a neurological, endocrine, and arthritis patient, is that close enough?

As of 08:08, twenty-six posts.

Every one of those 20 or so posts, and more, by http://www.starshipmodeler.net/talk/mem ... le&u=17874 are spam.
Full of links to probably not even deity knows where they actually go.
starship spam

Will make note of this, recently got a resin & metal mini and the last time I painted resin was in the 1990s.

DeltaVee wrote:Thanks. Yep, that looks usable, other than concern about how well paint might stick.

clean the wire well and paint will adhere okay - us model railriaders have been using this for many years in making handrails, grab irons, and modeling electrical conduits and air piping.

This a possibility? http://www.modelexpo-online.com/product.asp?ITEMNO=BDC70312 Micro Cable .012 Dia Fine 30ft Spool Item # BDC70312 MICRO CABLE - 30 ft. spools Hundreds of applications! Nylon coated stainless steel wire. .012" dia., fine Or this? http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/514-N2...