My find at the local beauty supply

Good find vetteman, beuty shops are also where you'll find methel methacryate nail acrylics, the resin is useful for some casting jobs and the powder alone added to Ca glue makes a fast building super hard filler. My approach to modeling is a wholistic one in that I never really stop modeling.  One eye is always looking for some kind of material, tool, or brick-a brack that I can use in building. Most things work some don't, some work with a bit of modifying. The point is the search is never over, put yourself in the shoes of the first guy who thought, "I'm gonna put vinegar on my decals and melt those lil buggers onto my model". 

I had similar issues one time when I was rebuilding an aquarium pump. The instuctions recomended using a dab of nail polish on the tiny screws to keep them place so the vibration from the pump won't losen them. I got some odd looks at the store when I went to pick out a bottle and then more when I went to the check-out counter. The topper was when some friends dropped by a few days later and the bottle was still sitting on my table....I live alone!

PhD. The job has its perks, but the job satisfaction caused by tangible results is not among them. I've been known to work very hard for months and years with nothing to show for it, except some papers with my name on them. Maybe somebody somewhere use my papers some time to get a result, but I never get to know, let alone see it.

Which is accounts for at least 80% of my motivation for getting back to the modeling hobby: When you get something right, you know instantly. When you mess up, you have to face the music right there and then. The time scale with modeling is fast (hours and days), so you see progression from your efforts.

Oh well.

Doc 

Dr. Coffee wrote:

Doc - who's a Doctor, although not an MD

DVM?  DDS? Phd?

paintsniffer wrote:

vetteman42 wrote: I have to admit the ladies at the corner beauty shop know me well by now as I get a lot of my building supplys there. And they probably think you are a transvestite The old ladies at my neighborhood beauty supply place were starting to give me funny looks.. So now I just have the girlfriend buy my stuff there.

Right... I've been to the local pharmacy a few times the past couple of weeks. First to get 10 ml dose cups (for mixing paint, but the girls behind the counter don't know that), then syringes (for measuring paint, but the girls behind the counter don't know that) and then syringe needles  (for gun barrels etc, but the girls behind the counter don't know that). Tell me 'bout funny looks...

Anyway, I made a decision to do all the pharmacy shopping in the same pharmacy, so the girls behind the counter should be used to this guy buying all the 'weird' stuff.

Doc - who's a Doctor, although not an MD 

vetteman42 wrote:

OH but I do have an idea Its only 30 minutes to Hollywood Blvd from here.

I am only 35-40 minutes from San Francisco as well. We both have weird cities nearby.

Jim Barton wrote:

What part of the L.A. area do you live?

About 30 miles northwest of LA in Simi Valley. Its 15 miles as the crow flys.

What part of the L.A. area do you live?

OH but I do have an idea Its only 30 minutes to Hollywood Blvd from here.

 

vetteman42 wrote:

Paintsniffer do ya think they make ugly and I mean UGLY 6'4" 260lb transvestites ??? Besides what do I care what they think

You have no idea how unconvincing and scary a tranny can be.

Good point about not caring though.

paintsniffer wrote:

vetteman42 wrote: I have to admit the ladies at the corner beauty shop know me well by now as I get a lot of my building supplys there. And they probably think you are a transvestite The old ladies at my neighborhood beauty supply place were starting to give me funny looks.. So now I just have the girlfriend buy my stuff there.

Paintsniffer do ya think they make ugly and I mean UGLY 6'4" 260lb transvestites ???

Besides what do I care what they think

vetteman42 wrote:

I have to admit the ladies at the corner beauty shop know me well by now as I get a lot of my building supplys there.

And they probably think you are a transvestite

The old ladies at my neighborhood beauty supply place were starting to give me funny looks.. So now I just have the girlfriend buy my stuff there.

agentg wrote:

All sorts of good cheap stuff is available from nailpolish for finishes to emery boards. Foam eyemakeup applicators are the bomb for weathering w/pastels.

You bet they are the bomb Got me a bag of 500 a few weeks ago and wouldnt be with out them. Actually stole the first 2 of those eyemakeup aplicatoors from the wife

 

Nice find Randy. I've been using all types of nail files from that section. The ones with the three grades is excellent. All kinds of good stuff there for the finding. Never saw those particular tips but I'll keep an eye out. Thanks.

Jim