What's Your Most Useless Modeling Purchase?

1/72?! Hey- shoot me a PM or check out my MARPAT thread (feel free to post pictures right into their) if you have anyway of uploading shots- I'd love to see it!

1/72 is way smaller than anything I've ever tryed to pull off. My guys were in 1/16 and I had a hard time.

Edit- here's the link to my thread, again feel free to post pictures directly to that thread.

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A very small suction device I got from MircoMark when I was first starting out. It was a bulb with a brass tube, and three small suction cup things, the idea being you could use it to life, place or hold small parts.

Unfortunately the smallest of the bulbs is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too big for my 1/700 ships. I'm not even sure where it is anymore - I'm kind of afraid to give the modeling supply shelves a thorough cleaning.

I bought several items over the years that are still collecting dust.

-1  Several containers of Scenic Productions grass, dirt, gravel, etc. 4 years ago I thought I was going to build some dios with it. I have yet to build a dio...

-2  My Dremel Motor Tool and it's hardcase full of 100 attachments. 5 years later it is still in tbe box. I have never used any of the 100 attachments...

-3  An expensive Verlinden flack bunker dio set. See #1 above.

-4  A Touch N Flow applicator. After reading the rave reviews of the thing on these boards, I went out and bought one. Supposedly used for applying thin liquid cement. I never bought any thin liquid cement to use in it.

There are others, but those 4 pop out in my mind.

falschimjager wrote:

as a high school modeler with a meager alowance i am veryu conserative with my money and rarely buy all this useless stuff, my painful confession is that i don't even own an airbrush, but hey my freehand's getting better.

Way to go guy! I never had an airbrush until about 15 years ago and I've been building models for 38 years. Some of my freehand jobs have been mistaken for airbrush work too. 

Way to go on those 1/72 scale Marines. I always build in 1/72 scale aircraft, armor and figures.

anthony2779 wrote:

My Etch-Mate PE bender,just hasn't been as useful as I thought it would be,glad I picked up cheaper on Ebay rather then full price.

I bought one a couple weeks ago, and was as impressed as my mother inlaw comming over for a long visit! Wish I'd spent a little more money and bought the one from Small Shop

gary