Tools and storage

This is mainly a post for images for use on the Lead Adventures Forum.

For general cutting I use a Swann Morton Number 3 scalpel handles with 10a blades.

The older Paragon style handle is currently using an old blade for cutting Milliput and sculpting Milliput and Greenstuff.

My ramshackle collection of Vallejo paints are currently living in a 9 litre Really Useful Box.

There is space above them, but they do not fit in the shallower 4 litre box.

However, Citadel and Humbrol paints fit in the 4 litre boxes.

Compass Cutter

I use a compass cutter to cut the circular inserts etc for bases.

I have had this for a large number of years, but only recently noticed that the measurements are diameter and radius in centimetres, and nit diameter in centimetres and inches...

I am thinking of making masks for spray painting wheel centres out of card or plasticard with the holes cut using this cutter.

Colour Detailers

While having a reading another blog, I thought this was interesting, from the Maelstrom's Edge blog.

The article is about adding green stuff gas masks to figures (SF rather than historical) but the writer uses tools he refers to as "silicon clay shapers" or "colour shapers".

Now my local The Works (suppliers of cheap books, hobby supplies and tat) offer something which looks just the ticket.

Looking like silicon rubber paint brushes, it is claimed they do not stick to green stuff and hence can be used to sculpt green stuff before it sets.

We shall see.