Robert Porter
Senior Master Sergeant
I would like to collect in one place the idea's and solutions we have all reached over the years in model building. Ideas such as sources for materials for scratch building or detailing. I am most interested in sources and tools that are outside of the box as it were.
Example, in a recent post, one user suggested using the ink tube from a common ball point pen, in combination with a candle to create thin clear tubes.
Another user pointed out that you could use the clear (or not clear) packaging that a lot of items come in, you know the stuff you have to use heavy weapons on to open? This can often be easily reshaped with the application of heat into canopies or small windows to replace components mislaid or otherwise rendered unusable.
I have successfully used women's hair elastics, stiffened with CA glue and then painted, to simulate realistic looking oxygen tubes or even exhaust pipes or internal conduit or piping.
We are probably surrounded with items we would never even think to use in our hobby. Hopefully this can serve as a thread to collect such information to share with each other.
Example, in a recent post, one user suggested using the ink tube from a common ball point pen, in combination with a candle to create thin clear tubes.
Another user pointed out that you could use the clear (or not clear) packaging that a lot of items come in, you know the stuff you have to use heavy weapons on to open? This can often be easily reshaped with the application of heat into canopies or small windows to replace components mislaid or otherwise rendered unusable.
I have successfully used women's hair elastics, stiffened with CA glue and then painted, to simulate realistic looking oxygen tubes or even exhaust pipes or internal conduit or piping.
We are probably surrounded with items we would never even think to use in our hobby. Hopefully this can serve as a thread to collect such information to share with each other.
