Strange things you have used in your models

[grsjax]

Was reading the latest installment of the kit bashers guide and started wondering what the strangest things people have used in building their models.  I haven't used anything really exotic but a few things I have ended up using were wrapping paper, paper clips and buttons.  Would like to hear what others have ended up using.

[wq3296]

Greetings jarsjax,

 

I used 9mm primers (from spent cartridges) to fashion running lights for my Charles P. Notman 4 masted schooner.

 

wq3296

[Tadeusz43]

Brass hydraulic fittings machined  with  welded brass coins for made ship propeller hub.

 

Tadeusz

[ccoyle]

The broken tip of a fiberglass fishing rod made perfect turnbuckles for one of my models.

[qwerty2008]

Truthfully anything within arms reach is at risk of going into one of my models, spent shells, old bolts, coins, toenail clippings....

 

 

 

 

 

Lextin.

[Doug J]

Some time ago I built a model of a huges 500 helicopter using one of the '' leggs egg'' that my wife's nylons came in. Used some model gate for the skits and an old peice from a broken fishing rod for the tail strut. my nephew was small at the time and talked me out of it!!

                                                                                                                                                                                     

[popeye2sea]

Small bits of flesh and blood?  

[cwboland]

Small bits of flesh and blood?

Don't we all Popeye

[Keith_W]

Yes, I spent a bit of time wiping off blood from my pristine planking. I had a cut on my finger and did not even realize it until I saw all the blood!

[CaptainSteve]

I'm guessing you won't get too much weirder than the time I used Hair in a build ...

[usedtosail]

What about the guy (and it WASN'T me) who used his own urine to weather his copper plates.

[CaptainSteve]

That was DEFINITELY weirder than my coconuts !!

[Don9of11]

I used green auto pin striping instead of paint for my Bounty Launch.

 

[Keith_W]

Don that Bounty Launch of yours is beautiful. The colour you stained your wood looks like pear. May I ask what stain you are using? A link would be pretty helpful as well. 

[Stockholm tar]

I'm guessing you won't get too much weirder than the time I used Hair in a build ...

 

As a French ex POW said to his wife two hundred years ago, on his return to France from Britain in 1815 – in French of course!

[TBlack]

How about a couple of golf tees, hollowed out, for horns?

 

 

 

[Don9of11]

Don that Bounty Launch of yours is beautiful. The colour you stained your wood looks like pear. May I ask what stain you are using? A link would be pretty helpful as well. 

 

Thank you Keith, I used Minwax Golden Oak #210B. The model shown is from Model Expo and the wood is basswood. I picked up a little can at my local hardware store. You can see the full line of Minwax products at http://www.minwax.com/wood-products/stains-color-guide/

 

I have build log at http://shipmodeling.net/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=1378

 

Hope that helps.