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Scratch Building Supplies?
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Good art supply houses like Charettes in Boston carry stuff for architect's models. Charettes has a good selection of foamcore, strip wood, plastic shapes, Xacto knives, brass channel, tubing and bar stock, "The Chopper", styrene sheets with molded in brick, and a lot of air brush stuff. Also really really small paint brushes. Prices are usually manufacturer's suggested retail price. <br /> Craft supply houses often carry acrylic paint in a variety of shades. Big John Dalton used to swear by the stuff. <br /> Ordinary hardware stores are good for 2-56 taps and drills, spray paint, sheet lead, and wire. Good stores will have small fasteners like #2 screws. Red auto primer makes a good brick red and a good box car red. Dark gray auto primer is good for steam locomotives, and passenger car roofs. Light gray primer is good for the undersides of shake-the-box kits. The primer's are very flat but take decals well, so long as you use solvaset and do an over spray with DullCote. <br /> <br /> <br />David Starr <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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