in fact most of mine was slapping a few bits of mdf together its just I put it in a box and added some electrics. but I love the look of your track jig will be poaching the idea if you dont mind

Please do!

Here's the start of the hot wire foam cutter.

backside of cover:


outside of cover:


Wiring diagram from here:

Wiring info

looking good there matt cant wait to see it finished,
damn I just realised I was moving my pictures around and they have been deleted and it wont let me edit the post to correct the links.
anyway on a side note I had a quiet evening tonight and was a bit bored so I knocked up a prototype for a tool to hold tank hulls and turrets while you paint them



let me know what you think so far

Ohh! I'm stealing that idea! Probably make a couple; maybe even with interchangeable flanges for different sized turrets.

That's a cool idea!!!

exactly what I was thinking, did some more work on it and added some different size bars need to make a smaller end piece for the smaller tanks. the trick is to lock it off with the thicker rod when you have just enough tension any more and you can pull the model apart if don't have a locking piece or your not careful when tightening.

Dude, you nailed it I'm going to make one of these

Since this appears to have become the de-facto campaign thread, I'll shift my posts over here. I've pretty much finished one of my two exhaust vent plates, and just need to put the hinges on the second one to finish it up. Once I do that, I'll test-fit them on the window to see which one I like better, then attach the exhaust outlet to the chosen one.

Here's what they look like right now. I used window gaskets around the sides of the MDF to help with insulation and to keep the MDF from soaking up any moisture in the window sill.





My earlier posts are in the (very quiet) campaign thread here .

Looks good planned something similar for mine but havent had a chance to do anything about it yet so interested to see how yours goes, also I would like to see the setup of the booth you have if you dont mind I always like to see others work areas

Neil--glad to share. Here's a picture of my spray booth. The booth itself is a Paasche I got four years ago. It's right next to the window I spray out of (you can see the corner of the window at the lower left side of the image) and sits on a kitchen cart (the Ikea Verkbam, to be exact) which we no longer needed when we moved to our current house. I have this all set up right next to my workbench (which is to the right, where you see the regulator). The compressor is under the workbench.



As for the exhaust vent plate, I finished the main assembly today by attaching the hinges. These were cheap surface-mount cabinet hinges from Home Depot.



I tried out both versions of the plate (hinged and full-length) and both work pretty well and are easy to slide in and out of the window sash channels. Given that, I think I'll go with the full-length plate, as it insulates better (and that's one of the key reasons I built this). Now I need to attached the exhaust vent itself. First, I cut out all slats that block airflow, as I don't want to hamper my booth's performance in any way:



With that done, I'll epoxy the vent onto the MDF, then attach the flexible duct with the collar and call it done.

I managed to finally get some of the wiring done on the hot wire cutter: (sorry for the blurriness)

Looking good there matt ive had no time to make any other tools atm started working on my diorama base again but I might get a chance to put doors on the storage cuboard I made under my spraybooth this weekend

Bump.... Still not much progress with my tool builds... hopefully it'll calm down some... but the week in CT/Boston with the wife's family was relaxing.

I still want to take part but other events have held that up. I have four reviews to finish up and then I won't have anything occupying my modeling time. So I should be able to get going on some of the tool ideas that I have. Nothing as fancy or large scale as some of the already shown projects......but still a tool all the same.

Thanks,
Randy