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Go to you local Theatre supply and request a FREE Rosco gel swatch book. Take home and look at numbers 100-163 in front of your lighting setup. These are all different diffusion materials used to soften lighting, and could be combined or layered to give the required amount of diffusion. A 20" X...

I've done both... shaved a 5 mm diam LED to a smaller diameter by chucking it into a drill and resting a flexible file against it, and carved one into a larger rectangular shape to be parking lights on a car. The advantage of starting with a larger LED is you have more material to work with, so you ...

Does anyone have a use for these? I bought a tackle box full of electronic parts for $10 at a garage sale, and included were several nicely stored IC chips of the 7400 series. I have a list, but they are not in order, several duplicates, and nearly 50 of them. Several 7408, 7404, etc., etc. Reply he...

I have two sources for small gearmotors that are currently out of stock, but they get they'll get them back eventually. http://www.solarbotics.com/products/index.php?search_id=882 http://www.hobbyengineering.com/H1646.html These motors spin at around 60 rpm (the next model up spins at 90 rpm), and &...

For more than one should ever need to know on the subject, do a search through the Scale Auto Magazine forums.

Check out this Fine Scale Modeler article about creating weld seams.

http://www.finescale.com/fsm/objects/pd ... dseams.pdf

I was trying something similar in large scale. I design theatre scenery for a living. As an experiment, I had taken a color elevation that I had painted in a PhotoShop type program, used the eyedropper to select the base color on my elevation, and then compared the RGB values to those from the Glidd...