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Joey, have you ever been in a Pro Shop before?

I don't know. When I read it I thought you might have had a DWI!

I don't know. Always wondered if any Pro shop models ever got built by actual pro modelers. I've seen some pro built kits sold on eBay over the years but I don't remember if any of them were from the pro-shop series of kits.

Have observed this project since the beginning. High hopes for doing so more in the coming year. When you're in the forums, look behind you, because that's where the project observer's going to be!

I notice you folks are using an antique CRT monitor part as a dome like structure on your build. Do you know what kind of plastic it is? or the recycling number? How is it reacting to adhesives, putty and or paints? (I have hoarded a number of items from computers to use on ships and right now I'm ...

I notice you folks are using an antique CRT monitor part as a dome like structure on your build. Do you know what kind of plastic it is? or the recycling number? How is it reacting to adhesives, putty and or paints? (I have hoarded a number of items from computers to use on ships and right now I'm w...

Got two very cheap in a second hand place today. Funny you should mention those signs.

I think it's time we had a sticky here in the scratchbuilding sub-forum with something like the following, (and correct me if I'm still wrong on some of these) Type #1: "PETE or PET, is Polyethylene terephthalate. At least some of it can be glued with CA and epoxy, primed with Mr. Surfacer then...

I've seen people glue a thin styrene veneer to itself over un-gluable, un paintable plastic, sometimes with a mechanical such as a screw anchoring it. Then more of the surface becomes paintable, capable of having kit part details glued on, etc. If the food container or whatever is a suitable color f...

And will you be planning on counting the rivets?

They can be used as decoration on 1:1 stuff, such as white ship interior wall panels and the like, (if they're white), think Blockade Runner corridor wall details, provided they're white and you just mechanically attach them with screws or something you CAN paint. I think the interior of the ship in...