| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 10 May 2008 11:58 p.m. PST |
Just leaded an awning for my mate's bank by overlapping sections of tooth-paste metal, looks pretty neat. Even pondering whether to invest in some enamel paint for a better 'metal' finish… |
| Smokey Roan | 11 May 2008 5:27 a.m. PST |
Tooth paste tube metal? Good idea. I've used wine/champagne metal (the stuff that covers the top). Pics? |
 mmitchell  | 11 May 2008 10:34 a.m. PST |
Sounds interesting Pics would be appreciated. |
| Daddio | 11 May 2008 1:52 p.m. PST |
You can afford wine and champagne!!!!!!! |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 11 May 2008 2:39 p.m. PST |
mmitchell – I wish I had the technology to hand, must work on it… Smokeyroan, thanks for suggestion, will play with some |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 11 May 2008 2:43 p.m. PST |
Of course (at least in UK) toothpaste comes only in plastic tubes, so you have to resort to tomato puree tubes or as in this case, nappy sore cream tubes! How times change… |
| terrain sherlock | 11 May 2008 3:39 p.m. PST |
In the US.. the heavy aluminun seal on Chock Full O Nuts coffee is very useful..:-) |
| jony663 | 11 May 2008 4:51 p.m. PST |
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| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 12 May 2008 2:01 a.m. PST |
I'll see what I can do. It behaves nicely like sheet lead, you can lap it over the edge, even smoothed out it has a malleable look – pretty good miniature proxy. |
| Whatisitgood4atwork | 12 May 2008 3:00 a.m. PST |
You still have metal toothpaste tubes? Lucky folks. All toothpaste here has come in plastic tubes for years – much better for getting that last bit of toothpaste out, but it sucks as a modeling material. If i'd known i'd have stocked up all those years ago… |
| bsrlee | 12 May 2008 7:14 a.m. PST |
And the wine manufacturers are moving away from foil on bottles to plastic and steel covers. Seems the loonies are screaming 'lead poisoning' and the steel seals are better than the traditional cork, don't even need a corkscrew. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 13 May 2008 1:27 a.m. PST |
Thats why I hoard plastic corks. Perfect for sculpting, but they may go way of dodo one day… |
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