Metal Earth - Starter Tips and Tricks
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- A video I made for those wanting to put together one of the Fascinations Metal Earth kits. I wanted to put together some of the tips and tricks I have learned putting together the kits into one video.
Since building this kit, I have picked up the Fascinations tool Kit. I now use clippers to cut the parts off the frame/tree/spruce instead of bending them back and forth.
New updated Tools and Tips video here:
• Metal Earth - Tools an...
To skip to specific parts:
Tools 0:53
Removing parts 3:02
Bending pieces and tabs 4:13
Hard to reach tabs 6:03
Twist or fold? 7:38 and 15:50
Curves, cones and circles 8:50
Looking ahead, avoiding hard to reach tabs 12.33
All the better to see the parts with 16:39
I bought an LED lit magnifier with 4 or 5 posable arms with alligator clips at the end. I enjoy these metal models and couldn’t build them without it. Great video.
Thanks for your help brother. I saw this metal earth kit at Hobby Lobby bought a P 140 kit. 53 years old just getting into modeling. Going to try , may be a disaster.
How did it go?
On my first kit I ended up using the smooth end of a few drill bits from my index to form small parts and it has worked out well but I will definitely pick up an assortment of dowel rods for future builds.Thanks for the tips and tricks.
+Dale Carpenter Someone had mentioned drill bits to me in the past. They would still be good for some of the smaller pieces. I might have to give them a try myself at some point. Thanks for watching.
Well done and very informative. Thank you.
Ohhhh, the marble. You are a genius. Thank you.
Not to contradict anything, you’re saying, I would just like to share my two main hitters in my arsenal. Some precision flush cutters and some tweezer nose pliers both can be bought at harbor freight. For under $10 apiece I use the flush cutters to trim the extra metal out of the flashing and then the tweezer nose pliers for most of the bending. I also have a small pair of duckbill pliers. If there is a long bend, it helps support if you clamp on the edge of a duck bill plier to bend it all in one bend.
Video was well put together and the advice both clever and done with love, cheers
I've only got the SR-71 and Corsair under my belt, but I've ordered all 8 Star Wars kits. Your videos have saved me a couple times already. Looking ahead and not bending shapes until you've secured the tabs is something I wouldn't have thought about until I was on my way to the store to buy a duplicate. Thanks for taking the time to upload these. I've watched all of them. If I could make a suggestion: Look at the Metal Earth tool kit and get a set of nippers like they have in the kit. They work great for removing the parts from the tree without pulling or bending them. The triangle on the tree leaves you enough space to fit the nippers in and flush against the part. It makes a nice clean edge. Keep up the good work.
I am glad you found the videos helpful. I have went and bought several replacement kits because of problems. This video was made just using the spare parts acquired from buying duplicate kits. I will look into the nippers. I have a couple of different nippers but none of what I have has work too well thus far.
animateorange I have found that fingernail scissors work really well. Get the cheap ones at the dollar store, so you won't be upset when they get dull.
Bridget Hill I shall keep that in mind.
Thank you, I have my jewlry kit I can use for my first model ( mini pliers, tweezers etc) also as you say, using other items from around your home 😻
How did it go? Are you still building these things?
Nice video buddy. I just purchased a few Star Wars kits & this vid will definitely help with gathering the necessary tools.
+PToastman I should probably make an updated video. I picked up the tool kit from Fascinations since then and I love it. The clippers alone make it worth the buy. It is so nice to be able to clip out the parts. My dowel rod collection has grown and I have added ring pliers to help shape curves.
Nice, I'll keep an eye out for the video.
At 1:30 those bad boys are called hemostats, and they _ROCK_ for all kinds of different uses besides just making these models! (pronounced like he-mow-stat...)
Great vid and great tips
Great tips
great video, keep it up bro!
Thank you
Thanks for the tips very helpful
this vídeo help me a lot, do it more, please with at-st . Greetings from México
+arath37 Hello, and thanks for watching. I hate the AT-ST in my pile of kits to do. There are so many, I am working on it. Keep an eye out for the AT-ST as well as the rest of the Star Wars kits, Marvel, Mass Effect, and more!
@@animateorange have* , not hate
this is just me but i would just go all out and spend the $50 on the professional tools. it helps alot to have the 8 or 9 different tweezers and the metal rounding tools. just me though. thats my suggestion.
Thanks for this useful start! We started our 2nd one and a small piece broke off. Do you have a solution for that problem? We tried tape but that didn’t work. And to small to use glue. I don’t know if it’s possible for you to answer questions… Thanks anyway for the inspiring channel!
Maybe twisting it out will damage it I think use flush cutters
You are correct. Flush cutters are better.
Use snips instead of bending the pieces off
I gave up :( probably gonna stick to the normal model kits
Why not just use fingernail snips to get the parts out of the tree?
I never had much luck with fingernail snips. I've heard that others use them but anything I've tried it didn't work so well.
Use small snips to cut the pieces from the tree. They come in 3d printer kits. They are called flush plier nipper. It is the ultimate tool for these kits. You only need those, Tweezers and those forcep grip tool. And some wood dowels, but seriously, try using the flush nippers, you won't go back