First new toy

[Guest]

Loving this forum thanks guys very helpful

So next question what do I use to dye resin? Ink? Or paint?

[AlanG]

Acrylic paint, food colouring, ink. Your choice

[Guest]

Acrylic paint, food colouring, ink. Your choice

What is the really thin foam called that you can just scribe to make a wall etc?

[AlanG]

You mean like the foam that you stick flowers into?

[Ian M]

What is the really thin foam called that you can just scribe to make a wall etc?

Ron aka spanner uses the base/tray from frozen pizza. The firm foam sheets used under laminate flooring is also good.
If you have a garden there are loads of things out there you can use. The dead flower spikes from a butterfly bush (budlia), make surprisingly good pine trees . A well clipped hedge is full of mini trees, keep your eyes open next time you are in the garden. Small pebbles become stones, stones become rocks....
And those long seed things that you find on birch trees, dry them and rub them apart and you have a heap of mini leafs. Tea time. Don't forget to save the tea leafs.

[Gern]

You can scribe just about any sort of foam David. The pizza bases Ron uses are fine for rough stonework, but I'd suggest an extruded foam for brickwork that has to be accurate. Use a sharp knife (and a straight edge if you want nice, regular brickwork; free hand if you want an irregular type of stonework) to cut shallow lines in your foam to create your basic pattern, then run a sharp pencil along your thin knife cuts - this will widen the gap. The deeper you make your knife cuts, the deeper you can push the pencil into the foam and the wider the gap you can make between your stones/bricks.

I gotta tell you though, short of using a grindstone, nothin' takes the edge off a blade quicker than extruded foam! If you do use your knife for this job, I'd recommend replacing the blade before using it on your kits. Oh. And your pencil will need to be sharpened too!

Thinkin' about it, I'm pretty sure I got this from Ron. As far as I know he didn't copyright the idea, so I don't think he's gonna sue for plagiarism - but I'll get him a coffee at Cosford just in case!

[Guest]

As far as I know he didn't copyright the idea

OT, I know, but you can’t copyright ideas — copyright applies to (artistic) works that have actually been made. Patents are a similar concept but for ideas

[Gern]

OT, I know, but you can’t copyright ideas — copyright applies to (artistic) works that have actually been made. Patents are a similar concept but for ideas :smiling3:

Phew! That's a relief. I had visions of an endless stream of beer tokens headed in Ron's direction. I'll still get him a coffee at Cosford though!