My shopping list

[Guest]

Not sure where to post this.

Anyway I work in a college and have access to various departments including car mechanics, panel beating, spray painting, joinery, electronics, engineering, painting and decorating, hair and beauty and chemistry labs. There's a few more but I don't think they would be usefull in the world of modelling. The reason I'm about to ask what I'm about to ask is because the more I read through the threads in here and the more I get into it the more I realise I could probably pick up some stuff from work and maybe even build a kit in my breaks.

The things I think I could use would be - small snips for cutting sprue, emery boards for sanding, various sand papers or emery clothes, alcohol or panel wipe for cleaning the model before painting. Anything else I could use? I can't think myself, what else would be usefull?

I already have a lot at home, my GF supplies emery boards etc.

Thanks guys.

[aaron]

get some

car primer in a rattle can

masking tape

razor blades

laquer thinners

white spirits

oil paints

pastals

window cleaner...with amonia

putty,polyfiller

along with the rest of your list, i think most of these should be able to be obtained from those places.

edit...and

rock salt

hairspray

oven cleaner

syringe or eye dropper

containers

[rickoshea52]

Steel rule

Scriber

Clothes pegs

Small spatula

Small mixing cups

Pin chuck/archimedes drill and bits

Lead shot/weight

Blu tack

Off cuts of wooden battens for mounting you model on as you spray it or as it dries.

The list is endless!

[Guest]

lol i dont even know what all thats about.

i was thinking chemicals for cleaning the kit before painting. the body shop dont have plastic primer but ive bought halfords plastic primer. i got some 5ml droppers or pipettes. syringes i could get from any chemist or needle exchange. I also have 2 friends that paint cars for a living so they wipe cars down with panel wipe or variation. and the beauty dept could supply a few nail boards or nail polish remover.

[Guest]

Steel ruleScriber got

Clothes pegs got

Small spatula got

Small mixing cups will get but i tend to mix paint in the airbrush cup

Pin chuck/archimedes drill and bits not good enough to use them but will keep my eye open

Lead shot/weight whats this used for? ive got a local fishing shop.

Blu tack got

Off cuts of wooden battens for mounting you model on as you spray it or as it dries. i use toothpicks stuck in polysterene.

The list is endless!

it is endless indeed.

[Guest]

Doggy:

You mentioned "...alcohol or panel wipe for cleaning the model before painting."

In case you were thinking of those small wipes in a sachet used for cleaning glasses and such, I was recently warned off using them because they could have an additive to make glass shiny which could affect paint adhesion. The advice here is to use meths, or plain old soap and water in a bowl while the parts are still on the sprue, and later if necessary to clean off fingerprints, grease etc. before priming.

Also, you could read "The Airfix Book of Modelling" by Jonathon Mock, Conway Publishing. Well written and illustrated. 176 pages including the index. It got me going and gives good info on the tools and materials needed.

You don't need to buy all the above lists of tools all at once!

[Guest]

thanks steve. i saw laurie, i think, mention acetone for wiping down the kit. i was thinking of using the cotton wool pads to wipe down the entire kit pre primer and after the primer. i do have a little panel wipe in the shed but I'm miles away from trying it.

[Dave W]

Isopropyl alcohol is useful if you can get it.We have 25L drums of the stuff at work.I use it for thinning Tamiya paints and for cleaning out the airbrush when I've been spraying acrylics.

[Guest]

thanks steve. i saw laurie, i think, mention acetone for wiping down the kit. i was thinking of using the cotton wool pads to wipe down the entire kit pre primer and after the primer. i do have a little panel wipe in the shed but I'm miles away from trying it.

I am a beginner so what do I know, but I haven't yet seen a reason for wiping down the entire kit after the primer coat or any other coat (unless of course it got covered in dust). My first model has been primed and the under surface given a coat of colour. To avoid dust gathering I am keeping the model in a clean zip-up kitchen plastic bag until the next stage.

[Guest]

thats allright, i have not wiped or washed a kit yet either

[Guest]

Isopropyl alcohol is useful if you can get it.We have 25L drums of the stuff at work.I use it for thinning Tamiya paints and for cleaning out the airbrush when I've been spraying acrylics.

I've just bought the legit tamiya thinner. As im still learning I want to reduce any dodgy variables. When im more confident I might try the alcohol. Incidently I thin 50 50 what ratio do you thin?

[Guest]

I am a beginner so what do I know, but I haven't yet seen a reason for wiping down the entire kit after the primer coat or any other coat (unless of course it got covered in dust). My first model has been primed and the under surface given a coat of colour. To avoid dust gathering I am keeping the model in a clean zip-up kitchen plastic bag until the next stage.[/quoteGood tip the kitchen bag. I suppose a large tupaware box would do the trick too. I haven't even sprayed an entire plane yet so I have literally zero experience.

[Dave W]

I've just bought the legit tamiya thinner. As im still learning I want to reduce any dodgy variables. When im more confident I might try the alcohol. Incidently I thin 50 50 what ratio do you thin?

I thin it about 50/50 as well.But I don't measure it.

[Guest]

I use a plastic pipette or two. One for the paint and one for the thinner

[Guest]

thats allright, i have not wiped or washed a kit yet either

No, me niether :clap_1: