Top 10 Model building Tips, Tricks and jigs
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- I demonstrate my Top 10 Model building Tips, Tricks and jigs that I use to make my model building easier and more efficient.
Non-tip glue stand
Non-tip paint holder
Handling round parts for painting
Precise glue applicator
"Allways ready" glue bottle holder
Tool for gluing walls upright and at perfect right angles
Keeping posts plumb while gluing
Using prototypes as references for weathering
Cheap source for paint mixing vessels
Handling many small parts at once, for painting 
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55 years modelling (on off) and there still are tricks to be learned. Tanks!
Isn't that the truth. I've got a list of more tips I've learned just since I posted this video. I hope to publish then soon.
I glued Dollar store Jenga blocks together to hold my bottles.
Thank you for the simple tips and explanations, these will go a long way to making my life easier.
Glad it helped Peter
The "up-side-down" needle and the double side tape holder I am sure to copy! Thanks for the idea! I modelled all my life, but these were new for me! 👍🏻
Glad you found something useful Ton.
Great tips, especially the needle and the paint holders. As someone prone to klutzing out due to a disability these are game changers!
Very many thanks for these useful tips. Much appreciated.
Glad you found some use out of it. Happy modeling!
Been using 1-2-3 blocks for a long time, but recently I picked up a set of hole less 1-2-3 blocks. I don’t know how I’ve lived for 62 years without them! They are considerably heavier than the 28 hole blocks, and one of my frequent uses for them is holding basswood panels flat while the paint dries! I lay the basswood pieces on a piece of 1/4” glass, lay waxed paper over them and put the blocks on top of them!
Thanks for the tip, I've been having issues with painting thin panels.
I bought some 1-2-3 blocks from a recommendation on a woodworking video. What an inexpensive and great tool!
genius !! The sticky sticks for spraying small parts is my favourite tip here - thank you
Brilliant ideas! Cheers from Outback Australia...
i reuse the little plastic trays that my contacts come in. the small depression is for paint. flip it over to get a flat spot for glue dispensing. I reuse the little coffee creamer cups to mix paint in. I took an older half empty liquid glue bottle and added several pieces of left over sprue, after a few days I had some plastic glue putty.
Excellent! Thank you.
Great tips - Thanks
Very nice thank you.
Thanks for the tips they are very much appreciated!
Damnnn i legit just knocked over my brand new bottle of Tamiya Cement (orange cap) after one single use, and am now left with only a handful of uses. Making that square holder but x3, thanks for the idea!
There's only one thing better than a pair of 1-2-3 blocks and that's TWO pairs of 1-2-3 blocks - you can never have too many work holding solutions - especially WITHIN REACH at all times.
Add in a cheap pair of v-ee blocks, an angle plate and a length of 2 x 2 x1/8 extruded aluminum angle. But do not use the 1/16th. It's too flimsy. If you find yourself doing a lot of angle cutting of sheet stock a vernier protractor is much more accurate than the protractor heads that are in hardware store combination square sets. Ant number of machinist set up tools are handy.
@@mpetersen6 and remeber where you store them all!
@@negotiableaffections😂👍🏻
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It's called a Tool Box or Machinist Chest. French fit the drawers so the tools only back in one place.
Excellent tips and ideas thank you!
WOW! So many good tips in one place. I wanted an excuse to buy Forstner bits!! Thanks
Bob
England
Thanks Bob!
Top tips, thank you.
Great ideas!
Great tips, simple but effective.
Great tips..will use them.. thanks, Gary from .
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Great Video. Thank you!!
Great stuff.
Great video, lots of great ideas.
That V jig you made for vertical alignment can also be used for another purpose. You can use it to drill perfectly centred holes into rod or pipe. Just use a drill press and line up using centre of v for a guide.
Nice. My take away is the inverted bottle holder.
All useful and big brain time. But that needle/super glue... reservoir... okay that's really clever! Thanks!
Great tips! Thank you for sharing. I use some mini multi-angle welding magnets with my 3-2-1 blocks to make angled jigs. Also a thick straight-edge or ruler taped down to your work-surface when used with a thinner right-angle ruler or set square is helpful for long or square cuts in styrene for example.
Thanks Chuck. Good ideas
Good ideas. However, on the jig for the post I use the same principal but have a larger cut-out at the bottom so that glue can't get from the base of the post onto the squaring block.
Great tips. You can use magnets to “clamp” to the 123 block also
Excellent information. Thanks for sharing.
Great tips thanks.
To make removing tight-fitting bottles from your paint tray, try drilling a small hole all the way through the bottom of the well, use the forstner bit dimple as a guide. This will let air out when inserting a bottle and air in during removal.
Great tips, glad YT recommended your channel, subbed.
Thanks.
Blue paddy! Stuff sold for hanging things without damaging wall. Super stuff for painting and holding things.
Hello!! I just found your channel and subbed. Great tips, these will help out a lot of folks. I really like your custom glue holder, very nice. I also appreciated your tip on holding small parts. I already do something similar but I never thought of taping the sticks together and then cutting them apart. Like I always say, learn something new everyday. Thanks for the video and I'm looking forward to checking out more of your video's. Have a great day Sir. -David
Thanks for sharing. Good ideas.
Awesome tips! Thanks for sharing! I just subbed you!
GREAT TIPS
Now, I've never spilled my glue (so far), but that I can open it one handed is a pretty big bonus of that jig. Definitely will build something like that!
That 123 Block is highly recommended, I use something similar.
Thanks
I have 4 blocks of steel and a few other heavy items.
Great Modeling TIPS !! Sounds like you've been reading Brett Gallant's "Model University" series : )) I love Sierra West Kits TOO
WOW great ideas thanks for sharing
Thanks Ryan. If you have any other topics you would like to see covered, please let me know.
Thank you for tips
I've found that a helpful layout jig can be created using Legos, I use one of the flat green build plates screwed to a flat board as a base, you can make a perfect jig for almost anything with a small tub of bricks.
Investing in a cheap tablet or sourcing an old laptop is probably a more cost effective way to look at reference pictures than printing them in colour on glossy paper in the long run.
As spock would say "fascinating"!😁
Jman
On the paint pot holder you could drill some small holes for holding brushes.
Great idea! Thanks
When using a needle to apply super glue I first put the drop of glue on a piece of plastic baggy where i will remain workable for 10 or 15 minutes.
I learned an even better idea. I should update the video. If you put CA glue on the wax of a tea candle ( I suppose any candle would work) it remains workable for hours! It actually works. And when the needle gets clogged with dried CA glue, you use a match and it burns right off the needle.
So cool ideas .......... Thanks a lot for such an wonderful video
Thanks so much. Glad you got something out of it.
Thank you
You can use Paint stirring sticks from the hardware.
Good tips.
Any ideas on how to get that perfect yellow stripe around aircraft bombs?
Most Hobby Lobby stores have balsa wood. 1/4” or 1/8” usually there. If your thumbnail won’t dent the balsa much, perfect for these jigs
Great channel and awesome tip and tricks. New subscriber here!!
Thanks a lot Ed!
Tool for gluing walls upright and at perfect right angles " Computer heat sinks " various sizes and some have 3-4mm between the fins to hold popsicle sticks in place or card. Low tack double sided sticky tape.
Cool! Thanks for the tip.
Wow!! Thankyou so much.Great helpful tips. That was a year ago. Time for a new one???
Glad you found it useful Madcat100. You're right, time for a new one!
notch out the bottom of the post jig so glue doesnt squeeze out and glue jig too
I build a lot of cars. They need the frame built for them. I need a way hold one side of the frame so I can glue the second half to the 1st half how do I make it stay their and keep it flat and same length. What do you recommend?
Secure it in a piece of cardboard,or another non flex surface with blue tac.
@@Panos-xo9rc what is blue tac?
@@Panos-xo9rc what non flex surface would work other than cardboard
@@Panos-xo9rc cardboard box or just some cardboard laying flat?
@@crossbowhunter9118 any rigid surface that you can handle and where blue tack works will do.
The bottles in tip #9 that you have thinner in looks like where did you find those ??
I think those came from Hobby Lobby or Micheals
Nice bit off tips and info thanks
I need a technique to drill a centred hole in a < 1mm piece of plastic rod to simulate a gun barrel?
That will be tough @williammarshall6544. What I would do for that case is try to find a small tube to use in its place. Evergreen sells some very small diameter plastic tubes or look around for something similar. Coffee stir sticks, the old metal ink pen refills, etc.
I know this is a big learning curve. A 3d printer is a great way to make custom tools and jigs. However this means Computer skills > 3d modeling skills > 3d printing skills, yes a long pathway, but with the added benefit of making custome models as well.
Ahh a needle!
correction: "It" will remain workable
Everytime I see someone make bases for thier jars and such I think "that's so stupid and such a waste of space." Then I go back to working on my models, and knock over an opened jar. The ammo jars are the worst, so awkwardly top heavy.
Довго и нудно роз'яснює те, що і так зрозуміло за 2 секунди.