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Every time my better half gets her nails done she brings one or two of these home. Due to covid the nail tech can't reuse them.

 

Soft sponge 120 grit great for sanding between coats or finishing. Soft enough to mold to different shapes and can be cut to any shape / size.

https://www.nailwholesale.com/products/yellow-nail-buffer-4-way-grit-120.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhs79BRD0ARIsAC6XpaWjC9iqQV6ObSwVbVaz_rMsLazMywAO0q3sRmy3TmUoeXFfHsXFJ8UaAp6_EALw_wcB

Current build: NRG Half Hull

Previous build: MS Bluenose 

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The beauty department has a lot of interesting stuff and typically cheaper than the modellers' stuff - it's a mass market.

 

These blocks are also sold for woodworkers etc. Got some in 150 grit quite a while ago - ebay etc. is your friend.

 

Unless yours are soft, I would rather call them foam sanding blocks. Mine are rather hard and the shape is stable, allowing to sand flat surfaces.

 

 

Edited by wefalck

wefalck

 

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2 hours ago, CPDDET said:

Every time my better half gets her nails done she brings one or two of these home.

That is interesting. I tried something that looked identical a couple of years ago and it left a residue on the sanded surface. I assumed it had a lubricant of some sort.

Good find.

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A model shipwright and an amateur historian are heads & tails of the same coin

current builds:

HMS Berwick 1775, 1/192 scratchbuild; a Slade 74 in the Navy Board style

Mediator sloop, 1/48 - an 18th century transport scratchbuild 

French longboat - CAF - 1/48, on hold

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By all means take a trip to a local beauty supply shop.  You'd be amazed at the stuff they have that can be used for modeling.  Besides the foam sanding blocks and the disposable fingernail files, there all sorts of tweezers and cutters.  I have a pile of these (both types of sanders) and they work very well.  

 

 

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

Current Build:                                                                                             
Past Builds:
 La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD           Triton Cross-Section   

 NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit                                                                            HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64               

 

Non-Ship Model:                                                                                         On hold, maybe forever:           

CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed                                                   Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)         

         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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