Back to Basics - Useful Tools for Scale Modelers
If you have a friend starting to dig in the hobby, this video summarizes very well the basic tools needed (without to cover the airbrush).
If you have a friend starting to dig in the hobby, this video summarizes very well the basic tools needed (without to cover the airbrush).
On the tanks model, handles made with metal look much more realistic (and they are less fragile). This tool can greatly help you in making your own handles.
P. Flory reviews the Harder and Steenbeck Ultra Airbrush, a good choice to enter in the hobby.
The guys of Scale War Machine have looked at RP Toolz range before, including the standard punch & die & hexagonal punch & die.
Air Tanks are a non-intrusive method of enhancing the performance of your compressor: fitting an Air Tank into your system will remove pressure fluctuation / pulsation issues from your air supply.
Masking tape is one of the materials that we modelers use most. For sure the Tamiya tape is the most famous one; is the Washi a valid alternative?
More and more great small details for our dioramas... In this video Luke Towan shows us how to model a small corrugated iron fence with barbered wire.
Are these truly useful tools? P. Flory did an in depth review of them.
A saw can be useful in many occasions, and there are many made just for our hobby. P. Flory reviews the one from Tamiya and the one from Airwaves.
P. Flory reviews in depth this set of tools for removing seam line scraper and how to use them at best.
Rosie the Riveter is perhaps the most famous riveter tool around. But is it worth of its price? Phil Flowy has in depth reviewed it.
I love this small tool... it allows me to make by myself all the leaves i want for my diorama, with different colors, in a breeze.
Clamps are a very useful tools, and these clamps have some very interesting features allowing to apply exactly the pressure that you want to onot damage the model.
A tool that you can use to clean your airbrush. I had one and i wasn't so happy with it: let's see the opinion of the guys at the SMConsortium.
P. Flory reviews this useful tool made by UMM, that allows you to make rivets not just round but exagonals as well.
Grab handles molded in plastic often aren't so perfect and good looking, and can be usef to substitute them with some made with bend wiring. Some dedicated tools can help in the operation.
The Master of Perfection is back: this time Paul Budzik shows us hot to use a Miniature Lathe with Plastic Kits
There are tons and tons of video-tutorials about scale models, dispersed on the Net. But only a few are truly worth to watch. We select the best and only the best video-tutorials: building, detailing, painting, weathering, dioramas and more. We just finished to tag all the videos in our archives, and the first results is here: a selection of tutorials about the weathering in scale models: all what you need to know to give to your models the perfect dirty or dusty or rusty look! |