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Q&A with Kristal Wick

December 8, 2017 by Ashley Bunting Leave a Comment

Have you met Kristal Wick?

Kristal is an internationally award winning designer and official worldwide CREATE YOUR STYLE Swarovski Ambassador.  She is a creative expert in numerous mediums; known for her work in silk, fibers, crystals, metal clay and much more.

Additionally she is a talented singer, knitter and dog lover.

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Filed Under: Beading, Jewelry Making Tagged With: Beading, fiber arts, Hand Tools, jewelry, kristal wick, Micro-Shear® Flush Cutter, Pliers, silk beads, silkies, Xuron Tools

Scale Model Painting with an Airbrush

October 12, 2017 by Gerald Voigt 2 Comments

Pencil and trigger pull airbrushes for scale model painting.

As a scale modeler I started like most of my peers with a variety of old fashion stick type paintbrushes to paint my models. Even today there are some aspects of scale model painting that require the use of a paintbrush. Before I really mastered the stroke of a paintbrush I was introduced to painting my models using spray cans of paint. What a time savings and a more realistic appearance (no brush marks) they provided.

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Filed Under: Scale Modeling Tagged With: airbrush, dispensing bottle, painting, scale modeling

Restore Model Railroad Equipment Using Precision Tools

June 4, 2017 by Tom Piccirillo Leave a Comment

Xuron® Model 485 Long Nose Plier was used to restore a vintage model railroad car

Tom’s Corner

Tips, techniques and commentary from Master Model Railroader Tom Piccirillo

One of my favorite hobby activities is rebuilding old model railroad equipment that I have acquired over the years from friends, estate sales, and flea markets. I think it’s really cool to transform what appears to be a pile of junk into a high quality model. So, the time came to restore a beat-up O scale brass model of a Pennsylvania P54 coach that’s been in storage for about 35 years.

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Filed Under: Model Railroading Tagged With: Hand Tools, Model Railroading, O Scale, Pliers, rebuild, restore, solder, xuron, Xuron Tools

Q&A With Ceramic Raku Jewelry Artist Marianne Kasparian

April 23, 2017 by Abby Robey 2 Comments

Ceramic Raku Jewelry Piece created by Marianne Kasparian

Marianne Kasparian, known to most as Mak, is a ceramic raku artist and the visionary behind MakuStudio.

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Filed Under: Beading, Jewelry Making, Wire Art Tagged With: 2193, ceramic, Cutters, Hard Wire, Jewelry Making, Nichrome Wire, raku, wire

Building A Model Trolley Pantograph

January 28, 2017 by Tom Piccirillo 2 Comments

Tom Piccirillo's scratch built rmodel railroad pantograph

Tom’s Corner

Tips, techniques and commentary from Master Model Railroader Tom Piccirillo

Back in the 1960’s, when I was a teenager, I used to ride my bike several miles to view the annual model railroad show at the Central Jersey Model Railroad Club in Westfield, NJ. Although I liked watching the huge O scale steam and diesel locomotives hauling their heavy trains down the main line, I found myself highly fascinated by the operation of the model trolley cars that plied their way from one town to another on the layout . . . over, under, and around the main line tracks. I was hooked. Modeling O scale traction was to become my life-long passion. Collecting electric current from the wire suspended over the tracks in order to power the cars was the ultimate in realism, and I had to prove this could work in reliable fashion, even in model form.

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Filed Under: Model Railroading Tagged With: Hand Tools, Micro Forming Pliers, Model Hobby Tools, Model Railroading, model trolley, Pliers, Xuron Tools

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