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My own head and my dogs face!

Back before my stupid haircut, I'd clip off little clumps for tall grass. Black lab whiskers make good antennas!

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My own head and my dogs face!

Back before my stupid haircut, I'd clip off little clumps for tall grass. Black lab whiskers make good antennas!

and your Lab(rador?)  willingly stood still for it?

Surplus stores...

http://www.sciplus.com/

Sprue-ce Goose

fermis:

My own head and my dogs face!

Back before my stupid haircut, I'd clip off little clumps for tall grass. Black lab whiskers make good antennas!

 

and your Lab(rador?)  willingly stood still for it?

Yes

fermis

 

Sprue-ce Goose:

 

 

fermis:

My own head and my dogs face!

Back before my stupid haircut, I'd clip off little clumps for tall grass. Black lab whiskers make good antennas!

 

 

and your Lab(rador?)  willingly stood still for it?

 

 

Yes

..wow...

Church!

The little plastic cups filled with grape juice used during communion.

I'm an usher and occasionally save a bag full of these. I take them home and rinse them out in a bucket of water. I could easily grab a bag of new ones but could not live with the guilt! Now if this were something from work.........

Great for mixing paint, washes, small part storage, and two part epoxy. Trash them when done.

You can buy them online but shipping is almost as much as the product.

I do the same with communion cups...

We use grape juce for the ankle-biters & Wine as well..

Biters & Whiners...

Airport sex shop!?!

MAJ Mike

Airport sex shop!?!

Yep, Frankfurt. In a window display, there was this brown leather greatcoat — “gestapo” style with lots of hidden pockets — that was as soft as butter. It was a shame that the bullwhip was permanently attached to the sleeve! The polishing material I wound up buying was just a handkerchief-sized swatch of leather.

Wedding bridal shop.  Bridal veil material makes great cammo netting or diagonal grills for vehicles.

                                                                                                             Pat.

Every now and then I'd go into my local Sam's Club and make my way to their photo developing area.  I told the nice lady behind the counter that I'm a model builder and the old 35 mm film containers make perfect paint mixing cups.  I asked her if I could have a few and she gave me a plastic shopping bag full of them!!!  Half a year later I went in to get some more and she remembered me.  She gave me some more. 

Eric

I used to work at one of the more popular national pet store empires and every week we would get a shipment of live crickets meant to feed the reptiles in the store and sell to customers looking to feed their pets. The little bugs would come in little cardboard boxes and featured a stiff wire mesh along the sides so as to let the crickets breath but not escape. The mesh was stronger than screen, say for a window, and had wider spacing so it made for great chain link fence.

I used to procure a lot from that store. Some aquarium ornaments worked particularly well as features in dioramas, like old Greek or Roman ruins, or their plastic plants, etc.

Plastic containers for .22 LR rim-fire ammo and plastic separators for semi-auto pistol ammo.

The plastic separator grids and boxes were nice for Sci-Fi projects.

Sometimes, the used .22 rim-fire cases were useful, too!

Never did find a use in a plastic model for spent .300 Win Magnum cases.

I don't so much think it is 'strange', but I was looking all over town for a good large brush for dusting off the kits, and maybe for weathering too I suppose. Everywhere it was 'you want what for that dambed thing?'. I don't care how rare red sable is.

Finally I ended up in the cosmetics section of my local drug store and wow, look at the size of this thing (make up brush). If this was red sable it would cost me this month's rent. All it cost me was 6 bucks though. Not sure what the bristles are made of, but they are soooo soft. Should have known (I am not included to use make up, so it had not occurred to me).

I also find it comical, that you can either pay a fortune for a puny bottle of paint thinner from the paint rack, or just get some rubbing alcohol at the drug store and buy it by the liter for peanuts.

An Iraqi minefield...

Hans von Hammer

An Iraqi minefield...

Are shredded, bloody Iraqi uniforms good source material for kit building?

Hans von Hammer

An Iraqi minefield...

Congratulations! You win for strangest and most dangerous...

Hans von Hammer

An Iraqi minefield...

Oh. Come. On! THAT demands an explanation. Or possibly an expiation. GIVE!

TomZ2

 

Hans von Hammer:

 

An Iraqi minefield...

 

 

Oh. Come. On! THAT demands an explanation. Or possibly an expiation. GIVE!

looks to me like he did a "Manny" ....

Hans von Hammer

An Iraqi minefield...

What part of the dead Haji did you use? I hope it was not his left hand - so unclean.

iraqiwildman

 

Hans von Hammer:

 

An Iraqi minefield...

 

 

What part of the dead Haji did you use? I hope it was not his left hand - so unclean.

might depend upon the type of mine....

perhaps the sole of a boot...

perhaps something from shoulders up?....?

My gallbladder...

 At a well known craft store , I found some pink ribbon that had mesh stripes the perfect scale for the screen in the center intake of a 1/48 Hellcat grin. I'm always checking through Michale's different departments with the thought of what can be used for modeling.

I also use make up brushes to apply pigments and pastels . Have a nice broad round one for general dusting and a fine round pointy tip brush for precise dusting as in exhaust stains, etc. Recently ,found an eyeliner brush that's flat and angled at the tip for applying pastels in a precise line. One of these days , I'm going to try using some of the various shades of eye shadow and make up as weathering pigments. 

 If your into model cars, the selection of colors available in nail polish is awesome. Some very wild colors. Also some of the nail decals can make for nice scale graphics. Even some of the nail jewels could be used to represent various lights . Tiny ,teardrop shaped , red and green jewels could make great wingtip nav lights.   

I stole a few strips of the "grass" from my daughters Easter basket for seat belt material. 

The list could go on forever.

 One more thing, an airport sex shop?????

Howard

daddy1

 One more thing, an airport sex shop?????

Yes, an airport sex shop — Frankfurt Flughafen Geschlechtsgeschäft (Peitsche und Feder? that’s German for ‘Whip & Feather’).

Hey, for REAL fun try this: hand-carrying a mid-1970s era disk pack through customs. The joke? You HAD to have the proper paperwork, specifically a Bill Of Materials for something about the size of a hatbox and as heavy as a bowling ball. [Pronouncing the acronym for ‘Bill Of Materials’ is left as an exercise for the reader.] Not my bad, but it did happen to one of my sadder-but-wiser co-workers. The polizei were not amused.

Manny's gallbladder

Congratulations! You win for Strangest and Most Disgusting place!

TomZ2

 

daddy1:

 

 One more thing, an airport sex shop?????

 

 

Yes, an airport sex shop — Frankfurt Flughafen Geschlechtsgeschäft (Peitsche und Feder? that’s German for ‘Whip & Feather’).

Hey, for REAL fun try this: hand-carrying a mid-1970s era disk pack through customs. The joke? You HAD to have the proper paperwork, specifically a Bill Of Materials for something about the size of a hatbox and as heavy as a bowling ball. [Pronouncing the acronym for ‘Bill Of Materials’ is left as an exercise for the reader.] Not my bad, but it did happen to one of my sadder-but-wiser co-workers. The polizei were not amused.

Ooooooh...

Do you mean the clear plastic cylindrical container with the large, feric oxide coated aluminum data platters so beloved by Geeks of the era?

I didn't know those still were in use !

To get this back on track ,I have found my strangest , but , most useful stuff in the bottom of a table saw . I have large jars of all kinds of sawdust from wood of all types and also from plastic sheet. Sure works great for fillers in different projects . I also hit their sanding table and yes I was and am able to use this stuff on plastics too .    tankerbuilder

Pulled the electric motors from a couple of ... "martial aids"... that I found in one of the apartments that was abandoned by a previous tenant... Used 'em in a Doolittle Raiders "Ruptured Duck" B-25 dio...

Being a Gizmologist, I find model "stuff" everywhere I go...