Hello Model Builders,
I thought it would be fun to have a "show and tell" thread where we can share all of the tools that we use to build our models, especially the unique and unusual items that are stashed away in the bottom of our tool box. Whether it's your favorite hobby knife that you use every day or a re-purposed piece of plastic that you scavenged from the trash can because you thought it may be useful in the future for applying a single spot of glue to the internal former of a left rear horizontal stabilizer...Let see it. Please Share it! Post it here with a picture, a short description of how it's used, how you acquired it or anything else that you have to say about it. Don't by shy! This should be fun! I look forward to seeing all kinds of cutting and scoring tools, glue applicators, clamps, jigs, widgets, and whatnot's!
Here are a few pictures of my everyday tools. I have them organized in a miniature four drawer tool chest that I recently acquired as a gift from a friend.
In the top compartment are some drafting tools, a 6" combination square, a dial caliper that I use regularly to measure the thickness of card stock, some glue, cement, and other miscellaneous do-dads. In the other drawers I have stored a collection of knives, tweezers, and other essential and not so essential paper model building tools.
My favorite tool (at least for now) is my Japanese screw punch. The punch includes six bits that vary in size from 1.5mm up to 4mm in 0.5mm increments. This awesome tool really makes it easy to drill quick clean holes in card stock up to 1mm thick. If you don't already have one, I highly recommend it. You'll love it.
Now it's your turn - Let's see what you got!
I thought it would be fun to have a "show and tell" thread where we can share all of the tools that we use to build our models, especially the unique and unusual items that are stashed away in the bottom of our tool box. Whether it's your favorite hobby knife that you use every day or a re-purposed piece of plastic that you scavenged from the trash can because you thought it may be useful in the future for applying a single spot of glue to the internal former of a left rear horizontal stabilizer...Let see it. Please Share it! Post it here with a picture, a short description of how it's used, how you acquired it or anything else that you have to say about it. Don't by shy! This should be fun! I look forward to seeing all kinds of cutting and scoring tools, glue applicators, clamps, jigs, widgets, and whatnot's!
Here are a few pictures of my everyday tools. I have them organized in a miniature four drawer tool chest that I recently acquired as a gift from a friend.
In the top compartment are some drafting tools, a 6" combination square, a dial caliper that I use regularly to measure the thickness of card stock, some glue, cement, and other miscellaneous do-dads. In the other drawers I have stored a collection of knives, tweezers, and other essential and not so essential paper model building tools.
My favorite tool (at least for now) is my Japanese screw punch. The punch includes six bits that vary in size from 1.5mm up to 4mm in 0.5mm increments. This awesome tool really makes it easy to drill quick clean holes in card stock up to 1mm thick. If you don't already have one, I highly recommend it. You'll love it.
Now it's your turn - Let's see what you got!
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