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More Tools
This post is to introduce some tools that aren’t “absolutely essential” except that I don’t know what I’d do without them. I’m a “low tech” kind of guy and you can see that none of these tools would qualify as “high tech.”
I think this is a forty-year-old eyedropper. When I was a kid, buying an eyedropper meant that you were a junkie. You’d get suspicious looks from the pharmacist and if the pharmacist had an old lady working for him (they were all men in those days– the old ladies I mean) you’d get an earful from her on the dangers of shooting up. So when I finally acquired an eyedropper, I held on to it! I use it for one thing and one thing only– putting water in paint to thin it. But over the years, it has been used for many things. MANY THINGS!
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Here’s something I should have bought forty years ago. It’s a Zona Razor Saw. I bought an X-Acto piece of junk and fought with it for decades before I came to my senses and bought the Zona. Accept no subsitutes! Get the Zona. It’s worth it. Get the extra-fine blade.
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This next item is supposed to be a nail buffer, but it works better as a plastic model kit buffer. Cheap and effective!
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This is a wonder of our modern age. The silver Sharpie. Who needs to paint on silver paint on anything tiny– use the Sharpie!
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Get a good pair of dividers. They’re not that expensive. It’s something you NEED. You’ll thank me later. Go. Go out and get it NOW.
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Artists have some good stuff that they don’t tell us about. “Charcoal” pencil can be used for a variety of stuff. The silver pencil walks hand in hand with the Sharpie and if you make fun of them they will kick your butt.
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Last but not least, we come to the drill. This one is “double headed” and that was not a good move, but I’m cheap so I bought this and made a “handle” for it that isn’t in this shot. You need some kind of handle.
The point is that you DO NOT NEED POWER TOOLS FOR PLASTIC. You can put a drill in a pin vice and twist twist twist you have a hole. No power. Also, you need a set of tiny bits. Need them. Get them when you go out to get the Zona Razor Saw.
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Ok, I’ll bite. What do you use the Zona saw and dividers for with models? Scribing a spot for heatsinks on your corsair? 😉
The dividers are a measuring tool. You can take a measurement from a drawing or another model, and transfer it easily to another model. The saw is for conversions. I’ve sawed the cannon “bumps” off of a 1/72 Spitfire’s wing to convert it. The Zona saw with the extra fine teeth gives you tremendous power when it comes to cutting up the original kit.