Starship Modeler Discussion Forums

Well, I've been looking into this over the last week. Antenociti's Workshop is a place where I usually get my foam. It's based in the UK, which is a plus for me. I've been chatting with Jed, the owner and he's informed me that he'll be stocking Aves products in the next week or so. So, good news rea...

Thanks for that, I'm thinking of going down the Aves road, but I was really hoping to find something here in the UK that I can just pop out and get easily when I run out.

Yeah, I mentioned using a resin earlier as I can get that easily. So to use it I basically just need to seal the foam? Would PVA be suitable? Just paint on, dry, and go to town with the resin?

That suits me down to the ground.

Thanks, sounds promising.

So I just ask for "Urethane"?

Well that thread was brief. Maybe it has the same qualities on car body work, but not when it comes to styrofoam??

Would Bondo be expensive to get shipped to the UK? I'll look into that later.

I was afraid of someone saying that. Bar did a test the other night for me as he already had Isopon P38 in his garage. When he went to check on it the stuff was bubbling!! No good. Halfords has "Locktite Porfessional Bodyfiller" but I don't know how it'd work. I'm asking here before trying...

I've been phoning around. No joy, Bondo is an american product and not available here in the UK. One guy hadn't even heard of it.

Does anyone know of british or UK available proucts that are just like Bondo?

Cheap is good. Always. :D So what happens to the foam? Does the foam continue to melt after the Bondo has cured? Or is it safe underneath the bondo. You hear about some paints on vinyl figure kits being applied and everything seems ok, later sometimes as long as years later, the vinyl breaks down. A...

Thanks for that. Would epoxy resin be suitable? The type used for laminating and coating? Maybe something that could just be painted on and sanded smooth.

I'm not against using milliput again, it is tough whe set. I'm just trying to look into alternatives.

Hi guys and gals, I'm in the UK, and I'm looking for a suitable medium for skinning styrofoam models. Aves isn't readily available here, I used Milliput once but it wasn't the easiest to work with over a large area and reguired a lot of extra anding. I tried rolling it out and even thinning it with ...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

Cool, thanks for that. Who'd have thought that these things were so usefull for other purposes?

I was going to leave the oven cleaner on overnight but was paranoid about it melting the plastic or something.

I've not heard of that one. Is it an american brand or something? This Mr Muscle I use didn't shift the acrylic paint. It's Citidel Minitaires paint for Warhammer40k.

What do you do remove paint like that?

:D :D :D It works! There's no damage to the plastic/styrene. The paint just slips right off. It didn't do anything to the acrylic undercoat/prima though. It only stripped off the enamel (Humbrol and Revell). I think it may have affected the glueing. It was shoddy before, but I'm sure the nacelles ar...

Hi guys, Not sure if this is the right place for this tip. I discovered this tonight in an act of desperation to strip off a nasty paint job on a second hand part-built 1701-E. I had no modelsrtip and was too impatient to wait for an order, So I got out the oven cleaner!!! That's right, 'Mr Muscle' ...

Yeah, I've read some of it but would the same rules apply here being as the size is different and there's more detail to take into account. I also want to copy the other parts like nacelles and engineering hull.

Thanks very much, Thay've been informative. I'm needing this info for recasting the 1/1400 enterprise D amongst others I'd like to kitbash a new design of starship. Like a mascott ship for myself. What's the best method to use for each of the different parts of this model? This isn't going to be don...

Hi guys, I was wondering if some kind person would mind telling me how to bext go about molding and casting? I'd like to know for the future, I'd like to make recasts of my models so that I can later use them for kitbashes. I'd like to try kitbashing but don't want to have to nuy kit after kit just ...

Can you not just reduce the size by say 50%? The image should print the same size if you select A4 paper. It'll just reduce the pixel count and therefore the memory? Being as Pendragon decals are of a large dpi the image shoudn't lose too much clarity when printing.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

What sort of decals are we talking about?

I must say that I'm strictly a sci-fi man but, All modelling is a great hobby. I think I may still have a tornado in my attic?

Are you talking about the tiger head? It's very nice and looks great on the jet.

Ok, I've posted some pics. The first link here is for my first attempt. It's nothing to write home about but it got me started. Also it's lost clarity when I saved it as a .JPG. http://community.webshots.com/photo/553506453/2566975790084990978ofpKCS One of my rubbings. http://community.webshots.com/...

Not patronized at all, don't worry. I know how to link, just needed a decent host.

Just let me get the kids to bed.
Thanks.

Maybe I should've married you. Ha Ha.

Give me an hour or so to get the kids to bed and I'll see if I can host some pics somewhere. Any recommendations?

Be warned, I've only just starte trying this so my first attempt needs some work. I just wanted to try it out and then saw the potential.

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I say you've got it good. I'm a full time dad so I do all chores, look after the kids and shop for food. My other half is career minded so works alot. When she's home though, she wants me all to herself which is nice. However, it's sods law that she happens to have the night off when I've got some q...

Now Now gents, She's not bad at all. She just hates this hobby. I have a tendancy to jump from hobby tohobby and back again so she doesn't really have the patience. Plus we're due to move house so we've been saving up for that too. Anyway, the story wasn't important, I was just trying to share my ti...

Hi again, I'm fairly new here, and have only recently restarted my passion for Star Trek models. Before, I was never really interested in acurizing models and thought that my brush skills were top notch. Until I dragged out my old models from storage. They were terrible. I can't believe I ever thoug...