I know a guy who uses spit for small decals.
Dave's work proves the truism that the surface of a model is key to its realism.
Mark
DaveInTheHat The "salt trick" is something I learned from the model car guys. I build them too. Spit seems to work best to make the salt stick to models. Sounds weird, but it works good.
The "salt trick" is something I learned from the model car guys. I build them too. Spit seems to work best to make the salt stick to models. Sounds weird, but it works good.
Finally, a use for my drool!
Very nicely done. I've got a few things around the layout I need to try that on.
Lee
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Very nice! I have that same tank car kit I need to make more realistic. I'll have to try that salt idea.
Sorry to hear about your stroke. Hope your recovery is complete and swift!
A good, positive outcome and story to go with it, Dave. Very nice results! I hope your message reaches a lot of people who could use your advice.
-Crandell
Nice work Dave,Real creative ideas there,turning fairly humdrum kits into something interesting. All the best to you in your stroke recovery. BILL
Great work, Dave. I love the tank. Good luck with a fast recovery.
Nick
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Good work. The Boxcar definitely looks better than the one I built back when it was a Revell kit.
During my recovery from a stroke I had in 2005, I found model building in general was a great aid to my recovery. In fact, after about a year, I was converting my N scale rolling stock to Kadee couplers. Now that I finished that I'll never do that again. That was harder than building PC boards with fine pitch SOIC and 0402 components.
I got enough back, that while I definitely know my weaknesses, I actually shocked a hospital staff member at a Stroke Survivors meeting. I was talking to the guy who was going to give us a motivational talk, before anybody else had shown up. You should have seen his face when the coordinator introduced us.
If you are getting any physical or occupational therapy, just take what they give you to do as a minimum, and don't give up. If you can build like that, you should be able to come back quite a way.
DaveInTheHat JTG BTW, how did you create the corrosion on the oil tank? I primed the oil tank with red primer. Then stuck salt to it. I painted it with acrylic blue. After the paint dried I knocked the salt off. I should have used enamel because the moisture in the acrylic paint made the salt hard to get off. The rest is just washes of rust, black and brown.
JTG BTW, how did you create the corrosion on the oil tank?
BTW, how did you create the corrosion on the oil tank?
I primed the oil tank with red primer. Then stuck salt to it. I painted it with acrylic blue. After the paint dried I knocked the salt off. I should have used enamel because the moisture in the acrylic paint made the salt hard to get off. The rest is just washes of rust, black and brown.
I've been a model railroader (and reading extensively about modeling) for at least 35 years. I've never heard of the ol' salt trick before. Nice one, and thanks for replying.
Nice work, Dave.
Bill
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Wow! Just goes to show what a difference weathering makes. I'm guessing neither one of these kits looks worth a darn out of the box, especially the Southern Oil kit. You turned both into works of art. Congratulations, and here's to a speedy recovery!
Earlier this month I had a stroke. I wanted to get back to my workbench as soon as I could. I had some trouble with getting my hands to do what my brain wanted them to do. I picked a couple of simple kits that I could finish fairly quickly to try and work to get back to my 'normal'. The doctors told me it would be a few months.The box car was pretty much out of the box. Nice little kit that takes a lot of detail painting. For the Southern Oil I replaced a lot of the plastic parts with wood and made my own base.I probably wont use these as part of "Davetown". I don't even really want them for anything. Maybe then next think I do will be a new section of my town.Here's the kits that I started with.Here's how they turned out.Here's a link to the pictures I took while I was building.http://public.fotki.com/DaveInTheHat/davetown/oil-storage--box-car/