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Steve
Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.
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Guys!!!! I can't beleive you're allowing yourselves to lose money every time ya'll post these little words of wisdom!!
Doncha know you get MONEY when you submit these to the magazine??? That's cash you can spend on your hobby!!!
Seriously, though, these are great tips. I myself keep all the blister packs that gum comes in (and anything else that has them) to mix small amounts of paint in, mix 2-part epoxy, etc. I usually use a thumbnail to get the foil started, then peel the foil away from whatever product I bought, which keeps me from crushing the plastic blister. I probably have thousands of these things now (which shows you just how little modeling I'm getting done lately.......).
Devil Dawg
On The Bench: Tamiya 1/32nd Mitsubishi A6M5 Model 52 Zeke For Japanese Group Build
Build one at a time? Hah! That'll be the day!!
I (actually SWMBO) save the metal ends to frozen concentrated juice. It's a great pallette for super glue and putty.
And, as someone else mentioned, I also save contact lens holders to use for oil paints, washes, white glue, and small color mixes.
Doug
Cadet Chuck At Wendy's hamburger joints, they have little clear plastic cups for ketchup, at the condiment table. These are great for mixing and thinning paints, and the price is right!
At Wendy's hamburger joints, they have little clear plastic cups for ketchup, at the condiment table. These are great for mixing and thinning paints, and the price is right!
...I always grab a dozen or so at the McD's. That's about the only thing I ever really grab, with any regularity, for modeling.
Yeah, but McD's are paper. If you go to Wendy's, you can get the good plastic ones! Same price!
Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...
Cadet Chuck Yeah, but McD's are paper. If you go to Wendy's, you can get the good plastic ones! Same price!
MOST McD's have the paper ones....the one that is close by has the plastic ones. It's about as "upitty" a McD's as I have ever seen!
tonka I travel a lot both for work and pleasure. I save the plastic key cards, use them for glue and paint palettes....Have few friends that burn a lot of CDs and DVDs --I get their 'mistakes' use them for paint and glue palettes also
I travel a lot both for work and pleasure. I save the plastic key cards, use them for glue and paint palettes....Have few friends that burn a lot of CDs and DVDs --I get their 'mistakes' use them for paint and glue palettes also
Yes! I have a bunch of sample credit cards and membership cards from my junk mail. I save them for similar use, mostly for use as palettes to mix up 2-part epoxy glue. Many of those dummy cards used to be plastic and served as an additional source of plastic card stock, but today, most of them are a cardboard core with a thin coating of plastic.
Speaking of CDs, back in the day, AOL and other ISPs used to send discs in flat metal tins. The discs were for people to use to go online and sign up. I have a stack of those tins, and use them for tool storage. For example, I keep my Flex-i-File set in one. In another, I keep my punch and die set from MicroMark. I give the tin a coat of solid color using a Rustoleum or Krylon paint.
I have a friend who uses old CDs for painting palettes. Since I have a ceramic palette, I just accumulate the discs. I've thought of making a mobile with them, or maybe also decorating a Christmas tree with only old CDs.
The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.
Devil Dawg I myself keep all the blister packs that gum comes in (and anything else that has them) ...
I myself keep all the blister packs that gum comes in (and anything else that has them) ...
Blister packs are a good source of clear plastic stock for windows or for vacuforming or even smash-molding clear parts, too.
The upshot is, never throw anything out! In future posts, when I refer to "being Dutchy", you will get my meaning. That's what we call it around here. "You never know when you'll need that...."
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