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Right on Matt, great to hear from you! :bravo: I had forgotten about the train folks; they invented lighting models. Yeah, I'm going to start small and go from there. Also, I'm totally going to buy a couple of the learn-to-solder kits Sparky referenced in the web site kitsusa. I'm knee-deep in geom...

A couple of suggestions come to mind, particularly if you're not electronically inclined: There are lots of prewired circuits out there. There are several sci-fi specific vendors here on SM, and also consider the model-railroad folks. They use a lot of lights, and there are a lot of cool pre-wired s...

I've used it for years, particularly to strip gloss paint from car bodies. I don't use it that much anymore, though, since the fumes are really strong. I use Castrol Super Clean. It's available at auto-parts stores and big-box stores. It's a degreaser, and it's available by the gallon. I pour it int...

Liquitex makes a product called "Flow Aid" that extends the open time of most acrylic paints. I mix it with Tamiya acrylics occasionally and I've had good results.

Matt Usher @ FSM

I've used a CO2 talk for 6 years now, and I am very happy with my setup. I'm using a 5lb CO2 talk from Airgas , a gas supply company. You'll need CO2 tank, a regulator and fittings to go between the regulator and your airbrush hose. I got all of the components from Airgas; the regulator was the mos...