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+7elephas_maximus NightLioness widukind JonasV DaveScriv LeeAnn SUSANNE 11 posters |
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SUSANNE Admin
Country/State : Denmark, the peninsula of Djursland. Age : 72 Joined : 2010-09-30 Posts : 37808
| Subject: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:07 pm | |
| I know there is a subject about this somewhare, but I just can't find it Well, perhaps they can be linked... The challenge for me is that sealife and birds with wings spread out take up a lot of spac. And on the shelves they just look a mess. So when my son wished some plastic stuff that can be modelled by hand, I bought some extra for myself, in order to make some supportss...or what to call them It is called Polymorph and I got it here. There is a little video showing how it is used. This is probably 50 years since I have tried modelling, so it is not very nice, - but it works Anyway, if I get better, the plastic can just be melted again and re-used My first attemt failed, because the stick in the middle could not hold the top. So I made some sticks and waited till they were cold , - this was the second attempt : I realized that it was ok to make the bottom and the "stick" in one piece : Here I attempted to make a click-on hoilder for the Schleich seagul. Well, again it works You can buy a colouring powder for the plastic, - could be great with blue for the sealife, couldn't it ? _________________ SUSANNE |
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LeeAnn
Country/State : United States Age : 25 Joined : 2013-01-20 Posts : 10339
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:28 pm | |
| This stuff looks really cool! I might try to find this somewhere Your stands look great! |
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DaveScriv
Country/State : England Age : 72 Joined : 2013-12-17 Posts : 601
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:31 pm | |
| Have you tried starting with some strong wire, to provide a stiff 'skeleton', and them moulding the plastic around it? |
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LeeAnn
Country/State : United States Age : 25 Joined : 2013-01-20 Posts : 10339
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SUSANNE Admin
Country/State : Denmark, the peninsula of Djursland. Age : 72 Joined : 2010-09-30 Posts : 37808
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:07 pm | |
| - DaveScriv wrote:
- Have you tried starting with some strong wire, to provide a stiff 'skeleton', and them moulding the plastic around it?
Great idea !!! Especially if I get some of the colour powder put in, so the wire becomes invisible _________________ SUSANNE |
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SUSANNE Admin
Country/State : Denmark, the peninsula of Djursland. Age : 72 Joined : 2010-09-30 Posts : 37808
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JonasV
Country/State : Finland Age : 28 Joined : 2012-07-23 Posts : 5657
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Thu Jan 16, 2014 6:50 pm | |
| What a great idea! Looks very good! Can I try to do something like that? _________________ Jonas Animals are my friends. I don't eat my friends. |
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SUSANNE Admin
Country/State : Denmark, the peninsula of Djursland. Age : 72 Joined : 2010-09-30 Posts : 37808
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JonasV
Country/State : Finland Age : 28 Joined : 2012-07-23 Posts : 5657
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:01 pm | |
| _________________ Jonas Animals are my friends. I don't eat my friends. |
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widukind
Country/State : Germany Age : 48 Joined : 2010-12-30 Posts : 45645
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:22 pm | |
| _________________ www.spielzeugtiere.com STS members can merge Andreas |
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NightLioness Moderator
Country/State : The Netherlands, Friesland. Age : 34 Joined : 2013-11-04 Posts : 5073
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:58 pm | |
| Those are handy! Can you paint them?
_________________ ~Karin~
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elephas_maximus
Joined : 2011-11-24 Posts : 484
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:31 pm | |
| Great stands and idea, thanks for sharing. This could possibly be used to make flat bases for four legged animals too. |
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Saarlooswolfhound Moderator
Country/State : USA Age : 28 Joined : 2012-06-16 Posts : 12022
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:00 am | |
| Fantastic idea, I always wanted to do this, I get frustrated with my birds and ocean shelves because they just look cluttered. Thank you for posting this! _________________ -"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves."-August Strindberg (However, anyone who knows me knows I love dogs ) -“We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.”-Anonymous |
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Roger Admin
Country/State : Portugal Age : 50 Joined : 2010-08-20 Posts : 35788
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:09 am | |
| Good work and ideas Susanne! Figures look much nicer in stands and instead of inventing something to fit, you make them correctly adjusted. That's brilliant. I think blue is a good idea to marine life as long as it is not deep sea fish! |
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SUSANNE Admin
Country/State : Denmark, the peninsula of Djursland. Age : 72 Joined : 2010-09-30 Posts : 37808
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:31 am | |
| Thanks, friends ! I am happy that you like the idea I hope to see what can be made by somebody with 2 thumbs instead of the 10 thumbs like me - NightLioness wrote:
- Those are handy! Can you paint them?
I have no idea . Perhaps somebody else can try _________________ SUSANNE |
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Tiermann
Country/State : Oregon, USA Age : 58 Joined : 2012-01-03 Posts : 1296
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:35 pm | |
| Those look great, great idea! I think your dolphins can really jump high now, higher than a seagull flies even! _________________ Tim :) ToyAnimal.info - The Toy Animal Collecting Wiki Animoblog Animobil.info Playmobil Animals
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SUSANNE Admin
Country/State : Denmark, the peninsula of Djursland. Age : 72 Joined : 2010-09-30 Posts : 37808
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MrsD123
Country/State : scotland Age : 78 Joined : 2015-11-09 Posts : 1
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Wed Dec 02, 2015 5:04 am | |
| I use Thermomorph for saddle "trees", just a lozenge of plastic moulded to a particular horse and covered in leather. then used elastic surcingle .... no way is it LSQ, but looks fine at a distance of 2metres, it can be moulded like plasticine, if you are quick, keep a bowl of hot water handy, trying to make stirrups to malke cast pewter oner is a fail, so far. |
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SUSANNE Admin
Country/State : Denmark, the peninsula of Djursland. Age : 72 Joined : 2010-09-30 Posts : 37808
| Subject: Re: Support, lifting a model, giving more space, holder..or what to call it ? Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:34 am | |
| Hello, MrsD123 , and thankyou for the tip A warm welcome to The Forum ! Great to see some more grown up people here It would be nice to learn a little about yourself and your collection. There is a place for introducing yourself here https://sts-forum.forumieren.de/f27-welcome-on-sts-forum _________________ SUSANNE |
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