Scale Model Body Modification Without Filler or Glue
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Doug demonstrates a technique to help achieve a perfect finish when doing body modification on a scale model car. A plastic welding technique that grew from a disappointing experience with a specialized tool.
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I somehow have missed ever hearing or seeing this method. Excellent video as always. You are a great ambassador to the hobby.
Thanks!
You work on plastic....can you customize plastic seats for a model bus?@@ModelCarMuse
Gorgeous wagon build BTW!!
Great! Now I have ANOTHER tool I've got to buy! Great idea. Thank you Doug!
You bet!
Protect this man at ALL costs
MY GOODNESS, this takes customizing to a whole new level. This is the first I've ever heard of this technique. THANK YOU.
Happy little welds :>
Like Bob Ross building model cars
I wish I would have know this method back in the day when I use to build models. Thanks for sharing your expertize with us all.
This is like the Bob Ross of model car building... I love it!
Great video and tip. I personally do a lot of body mods on my builds and look forward to perfecting this method. Thank you.
Great video... I love kit bashing or modifing models this is a great idea . I'll be using this idea alot thanks.
Great idea! I'm a Slot car racer and not seen this before for some reason but this looks like the best way to mod or even repair plastic bodyshells.
This is genius, especially for an over ambitious model car builder like myself who takes on jobs way over my head, I end up using so much glue and putty that my builds become as heavy as bricks and no way are they as strong as what this is. Thanks for the great tip mate. Cheers.
Glad to help!
That is OUTSTANDING!!! I never even thought of using a wood burner! I'm gonna try this with that AMT frieghtliner that seems to give everyone fits glueing on the sleeper portion!
Great idea,and thanks for sharing!
Great how to video Doug, I definitely will have to try this technique. Thanks!
Excellent tutorial Doug! Thank you for sharing!
Great video! Ghost lines are maddening, would probably work for those ridiculous hood scoop half cut outs ( like we need that for a guide) , to know where to cut, always hated those!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎🇺🇸
Good tip, thax for the video..
Oscar K and Auto World!
Now I know I’m old!
Awesome tip. Thanks for sharing.
that wagon is wild show more on it
Done this year's ago and it works great 👍🏻 Great tips Doug Love the content!! 😎
SUPER…!!!👀💪👍👍
Awesome...I really enjoy your videos...you are an amazing model car builder
Excellent tutorial. This is a wonderful technique. Now, I have to get a wood burner. Thanks for sharing.
Nice presentation. I've been using the soldering/woodburner trick since 75'. Not sure if someone showed me or I just came up with it for myself organically.
We're was this info 35 years ago , man the things I could have messed up . Lol
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Genius! I’m loving your channel. Thanks!
You can always Teach an old dog a new trick Doug you are marvelous thank you
You're welcome!
Interesting.
Amazing way to bodywork, I've put styrene in my Dremal to spin weld stuff but no where to this extent, very nice wagon too.
Genius!
Thank you for Share does tips
Plastic welding. Learned something new today!
I think his 97 degrees are probably Celsius which would be 206 Fahrenheit.
I've used this technique for non-modeling plastic repairs, i add a small piece of wire (like a piece of a staple) melted in to add extra strength.
I agree, otherwise I could weld with my fingers being that they are about 98.6 Fahrenheit body temperature. Good video I must say.
Doug excellent video brother and that's one Hell of a great idea!
Thanks! Try it out!
Thank You Doug for the video!! Know it was a year ago but just found your channel an love the great how-to's you have . I'm new to the body modifications an chopping an changing , your videos have helped me quite a bit.
Thanks and welcome
Thanks for the tip Doug. I've been wanting to try something new that would eliminate the ghost channels later. I'll try this soon.
How did you cut the panels without large kerf gaps?
I use a hobby type razor saw, a really thin one. Your question is a good idea for a future video! Thanks
I loved those Auto World catalogs.
Thank you for another awesome video. One question, what are you using to control the temperature of your soldering iron?
I don't use anything to change the temperature. I just plug it in and use it at the manufacturers setting. Thanks!
Modeler's corner in the hot rod magazines was how I learned tips back in the 90s, I had no clue where else to get tips. I learned how to chop top, make new windows and run fiber optics to make head lights, tail lights and the dome light inside. I just started the hobby again with my son and thank God we have a means for information to be looked up in an instant, I didn't want to just paint and assemble with my boy.
Wow, what a cool video! I have never seen this done. What a great tool. I hope to see more about this. The Chrysler wagon is amazing. Glad to meet you. Subscribed.
Genius. Pure genius.
This reminded me of a time when I was a kid, my brother and I would do this to our models. Of course it didn't go well so we stopped. lol
Your method is a great tip!
Boy I wish I’d have seen this before I started my kit. I’m changing wheel wells on the #54 chevelle and I’m on my second round of putty. I just ordered a hot knife and I will definitely be using this technique on my next one.👍👍
Your technique of "welding" the plastic makes me remember the "Spin Welder" plastic welding toy.
You can do the same thing with a piece of polystyrene rod and a die grinder these days. It works pretty good for filling holes and welding plastics together.
I had one of those, I was really too young to use it like this but it worked
First time viewer...you now have my subscription.....what great content you have..I love that you can do the body work like that with the woodburning tools...amazing...makes me want to build models again....thank you for sharing your craft...
I came for the Chrysler 300 wagon..........
Imagine seeing it full scale ... WOW !!
Great informational video. Thanks for sharing your technique.
fascinating! impeccable work, and VERY inventive!
I'm subscribing!
Just subscription. Greater videos with excellent clear instruction, with beautiful results, I can tell I'm gonna love this channel
Thanks Doug. The Hot Knife Auto World Catalogue used to Carry Harbor Freight Carried for awhile but noticed they Don't Anymore. It has Exacto Knife blade holder and Blades. I think Reason they Quit Carrying it was users weren't Careful Enough when trying to use on Models n were having Burn thru issues. Amazon n other places Still have them
The Technique You Used Here Would Work Excellent With Sprue Rod Putty made With Testors Liquid Cement in Small Jar with Brush
I'm Now 61 been Building Model Cars since 11. I tried Making Sprue Rod Putty for First Time 4 years ago & Am Quite Pleased with The Results it Fills Voids Quite Well & Once it Gasses Out Returns to Solid Plastic it Sands Quite Well and shows No seams when Done
So Using it for the Finish Work with Your Method Would Work Wonders. Thank for a Great Tutorial Video. Walt
Very cool technique, I'm going to have to give this a try sometime, thank you for sharing
nice tips maybe something i can use if i get more serious in this stuf i just build a Tamiya Electric Dril kit was a lot of fun never realy worked with this stuf before but i needed a small dril for something im hobbying on. but maybe the bug bite me. I am thinking about eventully mixing my own hobby with a RC drift car and make my own bodys from scratch but every step is 1 and this dril is 1 =) how ever there a lot of model kits out there and you just showed me a trick to make a custom cool work.
I work with metal cast bodies.
I guess my fate is suffering forever😅
That is so cool!
I'd never thought of this. I have a soldering iron with a panny reshaped to a wide chisel point for a tip. It would work perfectly.
As a kid I used glue and putty. The surrounding area was aways a wavy mess.
Beautiful workmanship.
I just put together a revell Gen 1 ranger, to put onto a scx24 chassis. Wish I'd seen some of these tricks beforehand 😅
Still got it clean looking with full depth bed .
Mr Whyte love your videos.
I’ve noticed you like talking with modelers from yesteryears. I meet one that I thought you’d like to interview or call.
However don’t know how to communicate
Privately on TH-cam. If you’re interested please let me know.
That k you for the lesson and tutorial and knowledge you have years of knowledge and so thankful for you sharing your skills you mastered over the years of building and modeling thank you. When I started modeling when I was 10 there was no TH-cam it took just sitting down and looking at hot rod magazines for ideas and references and had to learn how to modify bodies , paint and anything else model car building specific you had to teach your self with trial and error I was born in 92 so I had about 4-6 good years of no TH-cam for model buding
My wood burning kit just got new life! Thanks for the technique and tips!
Excellent work. I like to scratch build and combine model parts. Gives me ideas. What tip for the hot tool you use. I think I may have a part to use.
You need some of Stevens swizzle stick sanders, and their sanding needles. Very cool technique though!
funny I am 64 and remember in fact I did as you are just a sodering iorn with a base so real warm not hot and have used hair dryer to warp it body parts as well get them fender bulges I like stock cars before they where building the kits so used the sodering irons to weld the cages in them , real story I am dislexic my reading teacher to get me intrest in reading would send me to the libary to chose what I wanted to read and modlers magazines where my choice most times . supper cool you shared this cool car
That looked a whole lot easier than glue and filler. And quicker, certainly worth a try! But i have to wonder if you got this idea from using lead to repair dents in the days before Bondo...
I remember trying to do this as a child. But mostly I was using my dad's soldering iron to put holes in warplanes to show that they had been in battle!😂
Great video and have to add another tool to the arsenal! Thx for doing this video! I have not heard of doing this! So this I will need to do! Thx again ! ~Don
I learned so much from Bob at the NNL pacific shows . He told its just plastic.
Never heard of this before. Anything that eliminates ghosting is worth a try, although I may be too shaky now.
Who remembers using a spoon heated with a candle to mushroom over the axle stub to affix the wheels to model antique cars in the mid-fifties?
Fantastic Video and Demo !! Very educational !! Thank You !!
Really amazing tip and I'll think usina it in the future. Thanks for sharing it!!
This is amazing Doug, very relaxing to watch too! I love your videos.
I was going to say the same thing, that’s got to be one of the most relaxing model “how to” videos I’ve watched… like a combination of Bob Vila and Mr. Rogers!
Very cool, this is a great idea
Excellent Idea and seam to work with little problem and the biggie no glue are filler thanks for the tip
Just found this. Somebody is thinking outside the box and its a great idea...
I used a piece of thin cloth and glue from the underside ,then putty on the seams ,took time but came out nice ,painted metal flake.
Great tip Doug, very cool, thanks for sharing.
Great information, thank you for sharing this method.
New subscriber here... I'm only 2 minutes into the video and I can't believe I never thought about doing this. Glad I found your channel, looking forward to learning more. Thanks!!
Welcome to the channel! If you try this let us know how it works out.
Thank you I've always wondered how to do this and wanted to again thank you
I like the bend to a round head. I have used the part skeleton as a welding rod.
OMG! Im so dumb not thinking about this! Congrats
Really informative video. Thanks
I caught that nail polish statement too. I use that type of paint a lot.
Cool build. Thanks for the tip.
Beautiful NASCAR Daytona too!!
Seems to be a good technique to add to my skills toolbox. However 97 degrees? I think your thermometer was aimed at the wrong place. At 97 degrees you could almost just use your fingers to melt the plastic. Thanks for the tip.
yeah, that was not an accurate reading!
Yep.....I had a AW Auto Cutter. I pushed so hard trying to get it to cut like they showed the blade part snapped off!!!! Wish they had sold a AW Auto Welder!!!! Back in the 1980's we had a model car club member that did assemble his entire models only using s solder iron!!!
"Wish they had sold a AW Auto Welder"- They did, they just didn't realize it at the time!
super informative, thanks that was awesome!
Technique I learned welding but I never used on model cars… I generally use solvent glue for making joints tight, you have skills
Wow! I experienced the same disappointment when I ordered my Auto World cutter! I actually have used a plastic welder repairing automotive parts but the idea of using the same technique on my models never crossed my mind!
What brand tool are you using? Also, I have looked in VAIN for that particular tip you're using, can't find it! Any help?
It's a wood burning tool I've had since the 1960's. The name stamped on it is actually "Dremel 1500". I think it came as a kit and that tip was one of a few in the kit. There is an affiliate link to the wood burning tools page on Amazon in the description under the video. I don't know if any of those kits, or ones you could find at hobby or craft stores, would have that exact tip, but there is bound to be something that will serve. Let us know if you find one!
Great video!!! This is the best part about being part of this community, you learn new things all the time! I plan to pick up one of those tools, and start practicing. Thanks!!
If i have a project where i want to extend the front of the car to fit double motors in there, would you recommend combining two kits with this method for that or plasticard and filler putty?
I definitely recommend two kits and this method! You won't be replicating shapes from scratch and you don't have to wait for filler to dry or worry about it shrinking over months.
Amazing technique, I did move some wheel opening for a pro stock project and I did a lot of work on that section, if I knew about this probably would be a lot easier to do, thanks for sharing
You are quite gifted with that woodburner, however I don't feel comfortable using this method. At least not yet. I do tons of custom work and I use testers red cement. It is hot enough glue that it actually melts the two joints together. So far it has worked great for me. The positive I see in your work is just how strong the joints turn out. Mine can take days to cure and if not left alone will never dry. I've also had some that I put together, left them, then come back the next day to find that the parts moved ever so slightly resulting in more clean up work than I expected. So I will get me a woodburner now and start to implement this in my bigger projects. Thank you for the great video! Just subbed your channel.
Awesome tip Doug! Speaking of tips... Is the tip on the end of your woodburning tool custom made?
No, it was one of the six tips that came with the woodburning tool kit, fifty something years ago. Glad you enjoyed the video!