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Thanks, Terry!

I won't be getting these. Tried scribing with the back side of a blade and found guiding the tool in a perfect line difficult, it turned out looking a wee bit like a snake line and also had small variations in depth.

Andrew

Thanks, Kylwell!

Finally understand how the thing works. (Up until now, I thought the other side was an angled blade for cutting and carving.)

While surfing for scribing tools to see what was available, come across these at hlj:

http://www.hlj.com/product/KIRLC008-A
http://www.hlj.com/product/KIRLC008-B

How does chiseling a panel line work? I have no idea.

Thanks, Andrew

Mr. Hobby's Mr. Color Thinner #110 is available in several airbrush artists shops here in Germany. Might it also be available to you in an airbrush shop in Ireland?

Greetings,
Andrew

I highly recommend using Mr. Hobby Color Thinner for removing paint from injection plastic. Simply pour a bit on a rag and start wiping back and forth over the area. I have a very old mpc Braniff SST model kit that was half-covered in brushed-on, thick old paint and it came off nicely. (Takes a wee ...

Thanks, guys! Those will be helpful with another project.

Still digging around for the shop that sold those pieces, but no luck yet.

Andrew

Kylwell, a 1mm cabochon shape would do the trick! Do you have a website that sells them?

Thanks,
Andrew

I appreciate your help, thank you Terry - but a lens shape is not what I'm looking for. Checked a few sites offering MV lenses out but no hemispheres and nothing as small as 1 mm. This was a perfect half of a ball, a hemisphere, made of glass. The back side (the flat part) was painted silver which a...

About a year ago, there was a link posted in the SM forums to a website that sold tiny glass hemispheres about 1mm in diameter. Great for simulating starship running lights without having to light the model. Does anyone know the address to the site? I think it was somewhere in the continental U.S. S...

I stock up and buy a few cheap kits every month for gutting.

I can identify with Ter-Or's post! I transported a spaceship model in a small suitcase on a flight some years ago, and three security guys and a security female couldn't figure out what the hell it was. It looked gray and it didn't make any sense to them, so they marched me over to the bomb-sniffing...