Global Scale Modeller

OK - after sanding down the seam lines from my wheels I am left with this (see photograph) I have various ways of removing the dust from the plastic but wanted to know how you guys do it. Do you use a brush and knock the dust out? Or do you drop the model in a "solution" of some kind to break up the plastic dust? I tried using water but it just made it clog up. I bet one of you, or more, have a great tip they are just dying to tell us all.



Cheers
Jim

How did you managed to do this? I never made anything even close , I think you sand too much.

Normaly when I get excess dust i just give it a good old blow and it gets rid of most

I usually just give it a blow or a wipe round with kitchen roll....

If it's really bad I'll nail it with my airbrush.

SuperDryBeef wrote:How did you managed to do this? I never made anything even close , I think you sand too much.

Me thinks you might be correct Sir. Lol. But I like sanding. I guess I should have scraped more and sanded less. I was loving using my sanding sticks and got carried away. Lol

Cheers for all the answers.

Jim

I use an old toothbrush! Or new one just for that! Nice sanding job!

schweinhund227 wrote:I use an old toothbrush! Or new one just for that! Nice sanding job!

Same here gets into all the nooks and crannys

Bagpiper wrote:

SuperDryBeef wrote:How did you managed to do this? I never made anything even close , I think you sand too much.

Me thinks you might be correct Sir. Lol. But I like sanding. I guess I should have scraped more and sanded less. I was loving using my sanding sticks and got carried away. Lol

Cheers for all the answers.

Jim

To be honest jim, I don't think you can sand too much (unless you actually removing to much detail) give it a good blow or as norm said use a toothbrush or like me a toothpick.

I usually give it a quick blast with my trusty 'halitus meus' tool I have had for 30 odd years, if that doesn't work I will use the afor mentined toothbrush.

Very cool ideas. Thanks peeps

Cheers
Jim

p.s. The toothbrush wins out. The brushes I was using were too soft. I guess the plastic dust was more clogged up than I thought.

What works for me is to run the part under cool running water then arm myself with a toothbrush and washing up liquid. The soap lifts off all the debris in the nooks and crannys and it lifts off all greese and other nasties so the dust has nothing to cling to.

Lenny

Blow, brush, cocktail stick if really stubborn

Modelpro72 wrote:What works for me is to run the part under cool running water then arm myself with a toothbrush and washing up liquid. The soap lifts off all the debris in the nooks and crannys and it lifts off all greese and other nasties so the dust has nothing to cling to.

Lenny

Thanks Lenny. Funny how the simple solutions are the ones we either don't think of or forget.

Cheers
Jim