is there any tools that you could use to make a model better by the stuff around a everyday house

What you'll find in my toolbox:

Tools
Electric wire cutters (cutting parts from sprues)
Long nose pliers (bending wires and holding parts)
Tweezers (holding tiny parts)
Medicine droppers (sent in by Matt, useful for mixing paint)
Stool/urine sample containers (holds tiny parts and pastel dust)
Paper cutters (for cleaning plastic parts)
Sand paper

Materials:
White glue
Super glue
Discarded wires and cables
Aluminum foil
Thick foil that seals milk cans
Soda cans
70% isopropyl alcohol (thinning paint and disinfecting cuts)

These can be commonly found in the everyday home. Just make sure to put them back where they belong if you only borrowed them

Good luck and good hunting

I'm not sure where I keep the Stool/urine sample containers in my house. Where do you keep yours?

Kevin

Hey Muncher dude, can you just use a film canister instead? #:-)

Read above and include

- plastic card from egg containers
- plastic card from food containers or toy packaging.
- the wire one bears repeating - ANY wire.
- Paper clips
- manicure set (for sculpting and doing putty work)
- sharpee markers
- tissue paper (nose kind and gift wrapping kind)
- cake decorating containers with the little shaker lids.

Try the Tools & Supplies Forum

Kodak film canisters are black and opaque. Sample containers are translucent and they stack nicely for easy storage

My younger bro is a med student and he left some of his (unused I hope) sample containers at my apartment

Sample containers are translucent and they stack nicely for easy
storage and My younger bro is a med student and he left some of his (unused I hope) sample containers at my apartment


hmmm...let's hope thats ALL he left at you apartment...hehehe

i'll still go w/film cans...they don't stack as nice but, i don't have to explain the story about where they came from ...over and over

Kevin

Around the house, huh? Consider Comet, or some other abrasive cleaner to mix with paint for mud. When the Missus tires of her blush brush and certain makeup, you can offer to throw them out for her and palm them. In another scrounge listing I mentioned the bottom of cake containers (the same as the top of salad containers) from the grocery store. Band-aids work well for real cuts on careless modelers. White vinegar and steel wool will create real rust. Don't forget debris in your gutters for ground work. Toothpicks, matchsticks, empty Parmesan Cheese shakers for applying ground cover.
And the band marches on. All this and by the time my diorama is finished, it will have cost me several thousand dollars for everything I bought to try out. So, don't listen to me.

Sealhead (Kansas Sunflower)