Got a favorite tool?

Got a tool or product that you just gotta have when building a kit? Something you use on every model? We've all seen lists of things you need to have when starting your first ever model- but do you have something that if you couldn't find or wasn't availible, you'd stop building (or at least threaten to!)? :rolleyes:

Xacto knife? SMS carbon fiber decals? CA glue? (Tamiya R34 kits?)

I thought of this the other day, working on the F50, and I ran out of Windex (American ammonia based glass cleaner). "Oh no! Out of Windex! I CAN'T model without Windex!" I use it to clean my airbrush and hand painting brushes when using acrylics, which is nearly always. Had to go steal a bottle form the upstairs bathroom cupboard!

Thought it'd be interesting to see what everyone esle considers essential for building!

For me, I'd have to say an airbrush, a set of dial calipers, and of course Windex.

Reference photos.
I can't build a kit unless I have tons of reference material to look at.

Airbrush, CA, Xacto, styrene, and dremel.

my iwata!

strene,putty,dremel,glue and airbrush everything u need

got to be dremel, super glue and my finger wrapped in sand paper

In addition to all that above, good eyesight.

most important thing for me is a bandaid or if im out ductape. it works wonders

i gotta have my knifes, files, sandpaper and pin vise. next to all my glue ofcourse.

Always blade sharp Exacto and good old Tamiya masking tape :)
Ohh, and most necessary steady hands ;)

My thought blue-print. Everything else seems to fall into place.

My thought blue-print. Everything else seems to fall into place.
:werd:

my hands are my greatest tool.

oh so amny inappropriate responses come to mind. But my favorite modelling tools are my hands, my vision ( ideas) , and my aribrush

Time. And lots of it.

airbrush, xacto, ca, DREMEL!!!!!!!!, fine line tape, styrene, and of coarse the pin vise!

you all forgot the razer saw and the hammer to belt the model youre working on when all the great ideas and work turn to shit

only thing that I always do (besides obvious) is to hand write colour name beside code in my own language (I can't remember all of those codes)

mmm wat abt me?? good eyesight, steady hands, plenty of time, and... good mood. hehehe

This Website!

Back to basics: an x-acto, glue, paint and brushes. Everything else is refinement...

Inner peace being the sine qua non condition!

Time. And lots of it.


Can't agree with that more. My models take about a month each to be fully complete.

I don't know about a favorite tool, they all make me crazy from time to time.

The one thing I can't live without though is my visor magnifier. If it wasn't for that I might just as well paint everything one color, cause these eyes aren't what they used to be.

haha... good one. im thinkin of getting some magnifier glass that holds by it self. maybe i need to make one...... :|

talkin abt tools, my xacto, my citadel hobby fine detail brush (serving for about 7yrs now!), and... my study anglepoise style study light. hehehe. o yea... best regards for my study desk which hardly being used for studyin when im on a project. it literally messed up... with all my tools, paints, n stuff for the project. :)

self closing tweezers, cant get enough self closing tweezers (:wink: sk8ter)

self closing tweezers, cant get enough self closing tweezers (:wink: sk8ter)
:rolleyes: :grinno:

toothpicks.

caffine for those long nights

Gotta have my r34 kits,sharp exacto,ca glue,and airbrush,
and paint!! :icon16:

hands, paints,brushes, time