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- From: mcclure@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
- Subject: Re: Using aluminium foil to mimic metal finish
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.143320.23852@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
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- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- References: <1ee2pqINNbm4@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 14:33:20 GMT
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- In article <1ee2pqINNbm4@male.EBay.Sun.COM>, august@sachsen.uni-dresden.de (August Kurfuerst von Sachsen) writes:
- >Hallo Freunde,
- >
- >I'm trying something new on my own--using
- >aluminium foil to simulate a metal skin
- >on a WWII Japanese fighter aircraft.
- >
- >I used a REAL thin film of Elmer's glue
- >and cut pieces of foil and placed them on
- >top. It looks stunning in the middle of
- >the piece but toward the edge of it I see
- >wrinkles. Despite the rivets and panel
- >lines adding realism to the model, I still
- >think it could be easier and more realistic.
- >
- >Does anyone have any recommendation for
- >adhesive and where can I get a cheap
- >thinner layer of aluminium? My kitchen-use
- >aluminium is still too thick to work with.
- >
- >Your favorite techniques or procedures would
- >also be helpful...
- >
- >I will also be flying to California to do
- >business and will be in San Francisco area.
- >Please tell me what foil products (adhesives etc.)
- >are available there and which are the best
- >hobby shops there.
- >
- >Danke und Tschuess,
- >
- >S.K.M. Herr Friedrich August, Kurfuerst von Sachsen, Koenig von Polen
- >
- >
- >
- If you are coming to the Bay Area, I suggest you try San Antonio Hobbies
- in Mountain View and D&J Hobbies in Campbell. True they are a bit out
- of the way if you are in S.F. but I haven't found a well equipped hobby
- store in the City (as we call SF) to my liking. As to other aluminum
- foil products, I would suggest Bare-Metal foil. This is really thin foil
- that already has an adhesive backing to it. Both hobby stores mentioned
- carry the product. Bare-Metal also produces an adhesive, but I'm not sure
- if the stores stock that. I have the address of another mail order outfit
- (in fact it may be Bare-Metal's own address) in a back issue of Fine Scale
- Modeller. I will send that to you when I find it.
- Kent McClure
- Kent M. McClure
- Auto racing afficionado and member of San
- Jose IPMS chapter.
- My views are what they are, like them or not.
-