While lying in the chair having a root canal performed today I realized that every step of the way I was thinking about which tool he was using and how it could be used at the model bench.[:^)][:D]
I am sure others of you out there have more examples of our somewhat warped mindset!
…you use scale modeling techniques to restore an irreplaceable plastic switch housing in a real aircraft to make it so everyone involved thinks that you just bought a new one.
I dunno, that one is going to be hard to beat. [;)]
Never equated the smell of styrene with that of tooth grinding…[:'(]
Back to the Bench . . . You need to look into picking up better quality booze. Whatever you are presently imbibing is having an adverse effect . . . Really!!
I laughed at this. I too have had that experience having obtained various tools from dental sources. I also pass trucks and cars and find myself studying the weathering on them.
Hmmmmm, or maybe the Tamiya Super Thin and Faller Super Expert aroma therapy mix isn’t as good an idea as it seemed.[:S]
Ahhh yes no machinery is aged and unusable, just well weathered! It’s often a different world we modelers live in, but a happy one![:D]
Whenever I see equipment, I always wonder what I would need to scratchbuild it.
If a current piece of military hardware is upgraded, what would I need to update a current kit.
Or you see something on the real thing and remember that you have almost the exact same thing on a old broken kit or in a parts box that you can use.
Or you are walking along and happen to see something on the ground thast you figure can be used either on your current project of maybee sometime in the future.
Wow,I guess I’m not a scale modeling nerd after all.
Yes, done that a few times, mostly for scenic stuff. I have some dried plant roots from the garden that’ll make good trees/bushes, and a few bits of well-rusted metal that must have been outside for years, as well as some rail ballast, which makes great rocks. I just need to get round to using them!
Well, while being fitted for a tooth cap I did wonder if maybe you could take a mold of the tooth and then 3D print out the cap and have it all done in a day instead of waiting for them to send it off and get it made.
Guess the 3D printing material must be too soft for use in a tooth though. Maybe sometime in the future???
See an endless supply of raw styrene in jelly packs at the IHOP breakfast table.
This is nothing, I’ve had most of what y’all are writing about!
As for that 3D printing - nowadays the are making stuff out of stainless steel and other metals with 3D - they print in wax and then cast the objects in a metal of choice using lost wax technique…
Some years ago I 3D printed silver earrings of my own design for SWMBO - she still wears them pretty often, I musta done something right!
Would that count for nerdy? How about scale model nerdy?
Thanks for reading and have a nice day
Paweł
Some of the things that I have been using on my current S.F. project I have been holding for many years and others I have just recently acquired while walking behind a strip mall at the end of my street.There’s even a couple things that came from my c-pap unit when replacement time came around. Never can tell what might end up being useful.
Ditto on the c-pap replacements. I always save the nice thin plastic box that the mask comes in. Also the disposable filters come in handy for wiping a model down with alcohol before painting.
Jim [cptn]
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Great idea Jim! I don’t have the mask, just the nose piece, but they keep sending me the cleaners for the mask. Know what to do with them now.
It exists, but not 3d printed. The tooth is scanned prior to prep to get an image of the outer surface then again after reduction. That scan is transmitted to a 3d milling machine that cuts the crown from a ceramic block which is then heated to finish the glaze. Takes less than 2 hours from sitting in the chair to walking out. The system is called Cerec and is being used in many dental offices already.
I did a short stint working in a 3d printing outfit. Here is how 3d is used in dental work, very simplified. A scan is made of the jaw/teeth. That scan is sent to a 3d printer, and the printer makes the mold of the tooth or teeth. Dentists use this instead of the old stick a blob of putty in your mouth to make teeth molds. From there the dentist makes your crown or whatever. Hope that makes sense.