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Avoiding breakage in plaster kits.

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  • Member since
    August 2005
Avoiding breakage in plaster kits.
Posted by downtowndeco on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 1:43 PM

Occasionally modelers will tell me that they don't like to buy plaster kits because they have received poorly manufactured and packed kits from other manufactures that have broken parts. Let me explain the steps we have taken from day one to avoid this.

For starters, all of the large pieces have been impregnated with strips of drywall filament tape. I push it right into the wet plaster when I pour it into the mold. When set this reinforces the parts just like re-bar

Next the parts get packed onto two sheets of sturdy cardboard & protected with bubble wrap.

Next I tightly wrap the parts with shrink wrap so they aren't rattling around.

The parts are tightly wedged into the box with newsprint, again, so they are not bouncing around.

Finally the box is tightly shrink wrapped.

When you get the kit the parts & perfect & you build it up to look like this;

And if by some incredible chance you end up with a broken part please just drop me an email & I'll be glad to send you a replacement part at no charge. Questions?

Cheers!

Randy Pepprock
Dioramas Plus
www.dioramasplus.com
www.downtowndeco.com (email)
406-821-0181

  • Member since
    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 6:57 PM

Nice post. I've been a fan of your products for a long time going back to a "Chinatown" I built for my west coast 1/160 railroad some years back.

Also you don't mention it, understandably, but if the parts are broken, they are REALLY easy to fix.

Cheers!

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: NW Washington
Posted by dirkpitt77 on Thursday, May 9, 2013 12:30 AM

Tell ya what, a company that properly packs their product will get repeat business from me every time. The little things like this show you care, and really impress me.

    "Some say the alien didn't die in the crash.  It survived and drank whiskey and played poker with the locals 'til the Texas Rangers caught wind of it and shot it dead."

  • Member since
    June 2008
Posted by patton45 on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 1:43 PM

except for Verlinden kits.  with only the one box art picture and box full of misc pieces of plaster, you have no idea what goes where....so anything I have left from Verlinden becomes a destroyed building instead of my original plan design of an undamaged setting.  Verlinden plaster kits are to be avoided.

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