They have regular small, un-adorned scissors in the bead tool section. Couple bucks- for next time you need some. If you have no luck with HL for oils, I highly recommend Jerry’s Artarama. NW corner of I-35 and 290 (Koenig) by the dilapidating Highland Mall.
Thanks Steve - I looked in the bead section (love a lot of their pliers and various other tools) and didn’t see anything that would work. But then I was looking for something extremely small for working in the cramped space between biplane wings, with other rigging all about.
I’ll check out Jerry’s Artarama. Don’t get over that way too often, but I’m considering a run to Kings today, so maybe while I’m out that way. Depends if I can pry myself from the interwebs and get enough work done before lunch!
You’ll find as other have that Xuron’s 9280ET Pro PE Scissors work great for such things. Guys here are into WWI stuff and find them not only great for PE but trimming fine delicate decals and rigging.
I bet if you look around HL you’ll find no less than 30 different scissors…Fiskars several themselves and most are available at HL.
" Not too surprisingly were comments made by LHS owners that they don’t want women in their stores, they belong at the craft store down the road!"
Viewpoint of a jerk, let those losers go out of business for all I care.
Fact one the local store here is owned by a woman.
Fact two, one of her regular employees is a 55 year old gal making a damn good looking 48th scale Tamiya Lancaster.
There there is me.
I don’t need those jerks in MY hobby. They can go make themselves useful at a ball park for all I care.
Goose, my friend, you’re missing out on the most rewarding aspect of the entire hobby of model kit-building… Showing your model “doing it’s thing”…
To me anyway, that’s the obvious next elvolution of one’s scale modeling… Creating a scale piece of the planet and making the model “come alive” as it were, putting your creation into context and telling a story with it.
Very True, Hans ! i agree with you.
Having a model placed in a scale environment does give the viewer a better grasp of how the real machine functioned as well as it’s size compared to the humans that use it.
I don’t do dioramas simply due to space constraints.
their kits are expensive imo but the 40% coupon does the trick. it’s stupid how they give out these coupons when everything is 30% off. specially the stuff you want to buy.
Oil paints are parked in the stockroom? Doesn’t seem that that would be the big “shrink” issue in that store. That’s not exactly an item that boosters would particularly want because they aren’t universal in the “want” category. Also, you lose more in internal shrink than in the external kind, one cashier could kill you, even in the online game.
Glenn