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| Subject: | Re: What are the best modeling tools? |  |
| Date: | Oct 17, 2007 |
| From: | Sean Langley | |
My favourite tool, and the one I’ve had the longest, is a very ordinary (and very dirty) nail file. The blunt end levers the lids off paint tinlets. The pointy end is perfect for stirring the paint. It also helps me to apply filler - especially pressing it into the gap and then lifting away the excess, without ruining an expensive tool. The whole thing is a useful lever, brace, prop, whatever simple mechanical task you need that can be done by something four inches long. Also I tap my teeth with it when I’m thinking instead of modelling, which is most of the time.
Mind you, it can’t file for toffee. But hey, that’s what needle files are for.
seán |
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 | What are the best modeling tools? - Paul Ramsden - Oct 16, 2007 |
| . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Chris Oldfield - Oct 16, 2007 |
| . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Roy Chow - Oct 16, 2007 |
| . . . Sprue cutters - Tom Deimling - Oct 16, 2007 |
| . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Gary Cooper - Oct 16, 2007 |
| . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Gary Cooper - Oct 16, 2007 |
| . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Steven C. Johnson - Oct 16, 2007 |
| . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - gerry gardiner - Oct 16, 2007 |
| . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Sean Langley - Oct 17, 2007 |
| . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Mike Siggins - Oct 17, 2007 |
| . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Paul Williams - Oct 17, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Norm Samuelson - Oct 17, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Alan Mckenzie - Oct 17, 2007 |
| . . . Patience and dry fitting - Paul A. Owen - Oct 18, 2007 |
| . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Ted Paone - Oct 18, 2007 |
| . . . Re: What are the best modeling tools? - Julian - Oct 18, 2007 |
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