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You could do some small stuff with this.
http://www.injectionmolder.net/

I've seen people use aluminum duct tape to block light. Then cut out areas for a raytheon effect.

Kylwell wrote:

NNYGamer wrote:LED lit aerogel comes to mind. But getting it in the size you need would be expensive.

Getting it @ all would be problematic.

United Nuclear has it in granular form, sold out of the 29mm x 7mm solid disk

LED lit aerogel comes to mind. But getting it in the size you need would be expensive.

http://www.specialtybottle.com/index.aspx
many sizes, shapes and colors

modelnutz wrote:Um, I'm in Buffalo....some people think that's Canada ;-)

I'm in Massena, people think that's near Buffalo and IN Canada.

Since I'm making 8 individual ships do I get 8 days?

A trip to the dollar store got me the parts I needed for some minis. I want to mae a small fleet of 4 good/ 4 bad guys that kinda look like Star Trek. After done I am using the photos for a card game.

The Parts.
Not sure what day I'll be doing it though.

I made one ages ago but I hardly use it as my basement sucks (water problems). It needs a bigger fan too since the small squirrel cage doesn't seem to have the power. The floor of the booth is hardware cloth and the sides are heavy plastic. I may redo it this summer as I plan on making a closed off ...

That happened to a lot of my stuff i stored in my cellar, being the only place I could store stuff it was not ideal. Damp ruined boxes and decals and I swear the mildew ate the chrome.

RIT dye might work on some plastics, a guy did a test on a keyboard for Instructables
http://www.instructables.com/id/Rit-Dye-Keyboard-Mod/

And all without getting out of my chair!

I was in need of a small sanding drum type tool, my dremel was unavailable and I didn't feel like digging it out. I scrounged around my work area and found: (1) 12V DC motor (1) 6V DC wall wart (1) push button a dead USB hub on/off knob from a broker set of pc speakers electrical tape assorted grit ...

I used it a long time ago. I probably wasn't doing it right I guess since some of the things I ended up with were very bubbly. Of course if I had some good scales to measure with it might have worked better. It does give off heat as I remember I got a slight burn from it. Most of what I had ended up...

If you want a small reversible geared motor, just find an old video camera! There are small ones that drive the focus and zoom on them, Run at lower power to get the right speed.

I just printed something on my coputer on photo paper @ 6000DPI (that's what it said it could do) but even at 1/4 inch it took over a minute. I was seeing if a picture would look ok at that scale/DPI to use for mini standees for the 1/350 refit.

I have a few ideas but I'm looking for the right shape for the hulls and collecting all the small parts. One will probably be a standard design, that is a tank loking thing and the other a twist on the idea.

I'm sure if you have hover technology you have some way to overcome recoil. I have someplace packed away an old WWII 1/72? scale tank I was converting to hover ages ago. I might be able to dig it out to finish it.

I want voice activated glue, you hold the parts together and say "dry" (or set or cure etc.)

Looks really good. Didn't someone post a DIY arc welding circuit a few months back. I was looking for it in my downloaded schematics, but apparently I didn't save it. You can do this with $2.99 "tea lights". They drive a yellow LED that that is on most of the time and winks out randomly. ...

I recall someone suing a sheet of glass for the surface, cutting the X-wing along a line made by dunking the model in water with ink? on top till it was in the right position. Painting the inderside of the glass gave it a murky look

Chacal wrote:Best-and-impracticable idea: Aerogel. Too bad you have to pay an arm and a leg to get a sliver of it. But hey, if you've got the money, and you need just a small piece (say for a 1/72 engine)...

I just found you can get Aerogel at Unitednuclear plus radioactive ores.

Sparks. Intermittent power loss. Power fluctuation. Basically, sharp random light flickers to random ramp up/ramp down lighting. That'd do it for me. Even better if I didn't have to know how to program a chip. I'm going to use the LEDs from some votive candles I picked up at Big Lots, 4 for $3 and ...

One other trick might be to use a small gear, count the teeth and mark in between the ones you want for the right amount of bolts

Take a bunch of them in different colors and decorate a very small Christmas tree

I can see someone putting one behind each window of the Enterprise (any) and have them all controlled separately.

I've had no problems with them, the package is usually marked as sample and looks like it cost almost as much as the LEDs. Plus resistors to run them on 12v. They ship pretty fast too considering small packs are free shipping.

When I need some I usually go with ebay dealer cwithk, the cheapest for 10 is 1.50 free shipping (10 White 5000mcd 3mm Free S/H resistors)

From what I heard that some use a sound chip to make the flicker so if you hook up a speaker you might hear some tune.

nice trick, one I do for very small parts is a bit of sticky tack on the end of a toothpick.