Lord Riot Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 Would this be suitable? https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/SpiderWire-Super-Mono-EZ-Fishing-Line-220yds-All-Sizes-/181234671681 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Possibly I know a lady who used monofil for her aerial dooberries Cheaper and easier to stretch sprue and sprue's less likely to let go of the glue TBH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Riot Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 How do you do the sprue stretching thing, just melt it? It must be hard not to snap it though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayprit Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 33 minutes ago, Lord Riot said: How do you do the sprue stretching thing, just melt it? It must be hard not to snap it though? Internet has hundreds of ways of stretching sprue.........anytime theres ANYTHING you want to know about modelling, internet and especially Youtube is your best friend.....................Get Google up and enter "STRETCH SPRUE" and you will get lots and lots of guys showing you on video how to do a multitude of things, especially STRETCH SPRUE......................just to show you, here one I got up in seconds ..............see how you go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 56 minutes ago, Lord Riot said: How do you do the sprue stretching thing, just melt it? It must be hard not to snap it though? I used to be scared of this, but it comes to you quite quickly when you give it a whirl. Get loads of good runner free lengths of sprue (the Revell Shack kit is good for this!) and just practice with it. Great fun, and don't be scared to go hair thin with it. Others here (or, as Ray says above) can advise on the technique far better than I can, one thing I would say, is use a proper candle rather than those tea light thingies. Another fun thing is making the stretched sprue nice and taught once in position by using a very quick and gentle heat source - great to watch! Shack is coming on very nicely! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Riot Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 Great stuff, thanks! Watching that video, it’s incredible how it stretches like that, I’d assumed it’d just melt and drip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 just keep it out of the actual flame and play you can use stretched sprue to fill overdeep trench panel lines for instance as well as making aerials its your imagination, take it for a ride 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 (edited) wrong place posting sorry Edited November 21, 2017 by perdu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungalow_Bill Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Lord, That's really am awesome job you've done there. Gonna be an awesome display piece. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Riot Posted November 22, 2017 Author Share Posted November 22, 2017 Thanks Bill! It’s a great kit to build too, the parts fit together really well so even someone relatively ham-fisted like me can make it look reasonable, hopefully! Shackletons are such beautiful aircraft with so many extra features they’re good subjects aren’t they. I think it’ll stand out well once the decals are on. I’d like to try an Airfix MR2 soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lord Riot Posted November 25, 2017 Author Share Posted November 25, 2017 I like the Revell decals, but they seem a bit bright! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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