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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian writes:

In this hobby, we don't always need clamps, but when you need one, you need one!

Clothespins

This is a pack of Clorox Clothespins With No-Slip Grip, which sells for $1.25 USD at Dollar Tree. There are twelve in the set.

Clothespins

These are a plastic version of the wooden clothespins you might have used to hang laundry on the line back in the old days. These are bendier than the wooden ones.

Clothespins

There is a softer blue plastic which is the 'no-slip grip', which apparently provides some advantage compared to the old-fashioned wooden clothespins.

Clothespins

Above, you can see a clothespin with a 28mm Kryomek figure, to get a sense of size.

Clamps are useful to hold parts together while glue is drying, to act as a temporary base for minis on a painting stick or nail, and to keep paper from warping while drying. Clothespins are spring-clamps with uneven clamping surfaces, so they are not suitable for everything that you might use a flat-mouthed ratcheting clamp for. But they're inexpensive and easily available.

Would you use them?