Sir Able Brush | 15 Nov 2019 8:30 a.m. PST |
I've used this off-cut of insulated plaster board for probably 20 years – especially useful when spray undercoating or varnishing link what do you have that's odd but useful? I hope the picture works, not sre how to share from google pics |
Extrabio1947 | 15 Nov 2019 8:42 a.m. PST |
Good heavens! Looks like Vlad the Impaler has struck again! Ouch! But to the question, nothing really unusual at all. All quite common, really. |
dampfpanzerwagon | 15 Nov 2019 8:59 a.m. PST |
Waitrose wines and spirit guide. Hundreds of glossy pages which makes it ideal as a palette. Tony |
Hlaven | 15 Nov 2019 9:06 a.m. PST |
A plastic cafeteria tray that I prime and later dullcote figs and buildings on. |
Andrew Walters | 15 Nov 2019 9:52 a.m. PST |
I've got a 8x10" plastic cutting board that gets used for a lot of things. Bought it at a game store auction, of all things. Are we counting all the weird things we use as holders? Gluing the mini to a bottle cap or craft stick? Used gift cards are everywhere, of course. |
Glengarry5 | 15 Nov 2019 10:20 a.m. PST |
Hlaven A plastic cafeteria tray can't be that unusual as I've used one (liberated from the Pacific National Exhibition here in Vancouver)for the same purposes for decades now! Before spraying I cover it with newspaper. |
Sir Able Brush | 15 Nov 2019 1:07 p.m. PST |
"Used gift cards are everywhere" why? palettes? |
Timmo uk | 15 Nov 2019 2:04 p.m. PST |
A chemistry lab micro stainless steel spatula. Endlessly useful. |
Tacitus | 15 Nov 2019 4:26 p.m. PST |
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Grelber | 15 Nov 2019 8:24 p.m. PST |
Plastic ID cards that JC Penney's sent out for free 40 some years ago when I worked for them have been used as palettes and templates. Teflon coated steel cookie baking trays that my wife didn't like are covered with newspaper and used to prime and seal figures. I've also got a cell phone antenna, from back in the day when cell phones had a lump on top for the antenna, that I use for punching through paint stuck in the opening of Vallejo and Reaper paint bottles. The part that stuck out from the phone forms the handle for me, and the wire below is actually inserted in the paint bottle. Grelber |
Yellow Admiral | 16 Nov 2019 11:57 p.m. PST |
I have a number of 2x2 lengths of wood drilled with holes so I can hold planes apart while they dry. The planes are mounted on sticks, I hold onto the sticks while painting or decaling, and the sticks go into the 2x2 holes to hold the planes upright and away from contact while they dry. During big plane painting projects (like now) my desk is blanketed with tiny planes in mid-flight, wingtip to wingtip. |
Yellow Admiral | 17 Nov 2019 12:01 a.m. PST |
I have a tiny putty spatula I made by shaping a bit of sheet steel with sheet metal shears and inserting it into an old Xacto handle. |
Sir Able Brush | 20 Nov 2019 7:17 p.m. PST |
sorry – "Siberian weasel fur" ? |
Walking Sailor | 20 Nov 2019 8:07 p.m. PST |
16d duplex nails aka 16 penny scaffold nails. the double head keeps my fingers down from what I am painting. Then I have a 2X4 with two rows of holes to set the nails into while drying. Get 16's, the largest size. 1 lb is plenty. For 15mm (10-20). |
von Schwartz | 21 Nov 2019 12:03 p.m. PST |
Siberian weasel fur Ooooo, kinky!!! Nothing so exotic, I do recycle the SWMBOs old cutting boards |
Bowman | 24 Nov 2019 7:37 p.m. PST |
I think he means Kolinski sable hair brushes. I use Siberian weasel fur too. |