Im still experimenting with my favorite material to scratchbuild with, but lately ive set the styrene aside to try something new.
Im a college kid, on a strict budget, but I had become frustrated with how many coats of paint styrene took to cover up the white underneath. Not to mention I missed that wood grain.
Ive been buying styrene mostly for the clapboard, but after hashing some ideas with the idiot salesman at my LHS we got to talking about how a guy could make his own clapboard...very cheap.
So, I bought a very small piece of basslewood and a mini hand lathe (sp?)
I then proceeded to strip some very very thin pieces of wood from the thickness of the board...which came to ruffly 1/8th of an inch wide and paper thin.
To make a long story short, with something as a base (I used a plastic pieces from a mangled window blinds I salvaged) I was able to glue down the strips on top of one another, each time leaving 1/16" exposed.
It sounds tedious and like it takes forever I know, but you just cant beat that wood grain and one coat of paint. Ill post pics soon!
TJ
Im a college kid, on a strict budget, but I had become frustrated with how many coats of paint styrene took to cover up the white underneath. Not to mention I missed that wood grain.
Ive been buying styrene mostly for the clapboard, but after hashing some ideas with the idiot salesman at my LHS we got to talking about how a guy could make his own clapboard...very cheap.
So, I bought a very small piece of basslewood and a mini hand lathe (sp?)
I then proceeded to strip some very very thin pieces of wood from the thickness of the board...which came to ruffly 1/8th of an inch wide and paper thin.
To make a long story short, with something as a base (I used a plastic pieces from a mangled window blinds I salvaged) I was able to glue down the strips on top of one another, each time leaving 1/16" exposed.
It sounds tedious and like it takes forever I know, but you just cant beat that wood grain and one coat of paint. Ill post pics soon!
TJ