Tips and tricks.
On this page you find some "Tips and Tricks" that's can help by modeling, scratchbuilding and mastermodelling.
For real, clean and nice modeling is it necessary that you use the right tools and material.
Use your expierence and fantasy !
"If you have information for this page, send it me by e-mail"
E-mail to Henk Timmerman / HenkofHolland
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What do you need for modelling, scratchbuilding or mastermodelling:
Tools & Materials
- Graduated ruler
- Knife or hobby knifes
- Small scissors
- Pair of tweezers
- Hobby pliers
- Set of small key files
- Set of Watch screwdrawers
- Waterproof sandingpaper
- Electric Drill
- Set of small drills
- Cutting saws
- needles
- Signograph
- Pyrograph
- Magnifier
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Glue
- White Glue
- Cyanoacrylaat glue
- Universal glue
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Plastic card etc.
- Plastic Card
- Plastic Rod
- Plastic Tube
- Plastic strips
- Stencil
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Paint etc
- Airbrush
- Pencils
- Acrylic model paint
- Thinner
- plastic putty
- Milliput Epoxy Putty
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Others
- Spare parts
- Copper wire
- Metal wire
- Wine- or Tea-led
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Plastic sheet, rods, tubes and strips etc:
Evergreen Scale Models", U.S.A.
The most of the plastic card, rod, tube and strip I use are from this manufacturer. All products are listed in a catalog. Ask in your modelshop for this products and/or catolog or take a look on the website from "Evergreen".
Evergreen Scale Models Website
SlatersPlastiKard U.K.
A other producer of plastic sheets, rod and strips are "SlatersplastiKard"
SlatersPlastiKard Website (Railway Products)
In most of the modeling-shops you can found plastcis sheets from a unknown manufacturer, this sheets are most-time more cheaper.
Milliput the epoxy putty
Milliput Epoxy Putty Website
There are 4 different putty variants/quality available.
Milliput products are available from most leading model/hobby shops and art and craft suppliers. Ask your shopholder for this product.
How to make towing-cables:
1.Take a part of electric cable
2.Cut off the rubber/plastic mantle and you become on this way a lot of very thin copper wire
3.Take some copper wire, so many as you need (5 is normal) and twist this with help from a hobby drill
4.Take some towingcable eyes, available in some plastic kits (I use the eyes from the Eastern-Express T34 kits. You can copy this eyes by casting.
5.Drill small holes into the end of the eyes.
6.Cut off the twisted cables on the lenght as you need.
7.Glue the cables with Cyanoacrylaat glue in the drilled holes
How to make tarpaulins, tilts etc.:
What you need:
paper handkerchief, white glue for wood or paper, water, metal shaft and a pencil.
1.I you want to make a tilt for a truck, make a frame from metal shaft and glue it with Cyanoacrylaat glue on his place.
2.Cut of a part of the paper handkerchief and glue it on the frame with a few Cyanoacrylaat glue.
3.Pencil in the paper with white glue and let it dray 24 hours.
4.For the thickniss of the tilt or to make it stronger, repeat point 3 one or more times.
5.To make tarpaulins, canvas etc., use your fantasy.
Results:
How to make rivets(1) - How to made "Punch and Die"
by Alexandru Giersch, mastermodelmaker from Roumania:
Dear modellers:
Enclosed my own tools for making rivets of all kind. You'll see, it's a hand made "punch & die".
First you have my main part of the tool, a lead plate and some small plastic plates. Most use plastic thickness is 0.13 mm.
Then you'll see the tools - syringe needles cuted short. The needle and the wire necessary to take out the rivet. And you see how I'm doing.
I use to pose the rivets a very sharp needle. What I can tell you is that I make 5-10 rivets one after the other before to take them out.
The main inconvenience is that my rivets are plate, not semi rounds. But this could be solved with a very fine sand paper.
"As you know from your own experience, everyone get use it self with the tools or methods that he use. All modellers are, I guess, like that. I like to have a compromise between good and cheap. You'll tell me
that's impossible most of time. Here we could say that the modeller's hand and brain makes the tool good."
Alexandru Giersch
For information and questions to Alexandru Giersch use email address below:
E-mail to Alexandru Giersch "delete in email address - (stopspam)"
Drawings - information:
pic. 1 - initial syringe needle, before cutting
pic. 2 - syringe needle after cutting
pic. 3 - syringe needle after cutting, big size drawing
pic. 4 - syringe needle sharpened
pic. 5 - to obtain rivets you have to press the needle on the plastic sheet. For a better result
and also to protect the needle's sharpness, I suggest to use as base a plate made from lead
pic. 6 - remove the plastic rivet with a steel wire close to the inner needle's diameter
Photo-information:
photo 1 - initial syringe needle
photo 2 - disks to use for cutting
photo 3 - before cutting, the disk is in the drilling machine
photo 4 - after cutting
photo 5 & 6 - after cutting and during sharpening, is better, from time to time, to clean the interior of the syringe needle using one sharp needle
photo 7 & 8 - 2 steps sharpening : 1 - using a file and 2 - using different sand paper
photo 9 - to remove the plastic rivets I use a steel wire or another syringe needle, appropriate to the inner diameter of the punch.
Photo-information - "How you have to do it!":
How to make rivets(2)
With help from a special "Universal Rivet Tool" tool
The tool is made and available by G.W. Models, 2 Talltrees, Penstone Park, Lancing, West Sussex, BN15 9AG, UK
No website or e-mail address available!!
The price of the tool is maybe not cheap but the tool is for mastermakers very helpfull. With help of the levers and after some experience you made all rivets in same size, in a right line and on same distance.
Included by the tool are "Punch and Die" in different sizes that made that the tool is usable for rivets in the 2mm, 4mm and 7 mm scale, (usable in plastic, thin copper- and thin aluminium plate)
Dear Visitors:
My apologies that I have linked the information below to other web-sites. But, I can't give better information by myself.
The information about "Construction Techniques" is linked to the site from Simon Barnes & Doug Chaltry, the owners of the site "On The Way", one of the best Military Modeling Websites of the world.
Construction Techniques
Specialised in 1/72 small scale modelling. The best site for information about the military small scale!!!
The information about "casting your own models" is linked to the web-site from Hans van Oerle. A small nice site with good information
Casting Technigues 1:
Hans van Oerle from the Netherlands specialised in 1/72-76 small scale modelling.
The information about "Casting" from Stephen Brezinski is linked to the web-site from "Missing Lynx". A very nice site with a lot of information and discussion group
Casting Technigues 2:
Missing-Lynx, a very nice site with a lot of information.
Hints en Tips in het Nederlands (Dutch Language)
Voor de Nederlandse Modelbouwers vond ik op de site van IPMS Nederland, een prachtige pagina met modelbouw adviezen in het Nederlands. (En dat leest voor ons altijd nog gemakkelijker)
Hints en Tips van IPMS Nederland.
Website van IPMS Nederland.
E-mail to Henk Timmerman / HenkofHolland
