Pony beads from the craft store

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Mike Hungerford <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:45 AM, hort_wort <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I've been working on a paper model of an anime girl for the last
> > week.  She's a pretty good scale, with ankles about 1cm wide.  She's
> > also ridiculously lightweight and stands no chance of sitting up on
> > her stand.
> >
> > So I've been thinking about how to weigh her down.  My first thought
> > was to glue pennies in her butt.  After thinking about it for a while
> > longer, I thought about filling her with dried beans.  I just so
> > happen to have a can of dried soybeans sitting behind me with nothing
> > to do.  I was thinking the weight distribution would be more natural
> > doing this, and further it'd help stop the model from being squished
> > if it gets bumped.
> >
> > So has anyone ever tried this?  Did it work out well?  I was also
> > thinking of using a few vanilla or coffee beans to make her smell
> > nice.  ;)
> >
> > It's an interesting model.  It required me to use red construction
> > paper (only red paper I had) to print out a couple of the pages.
> > Never had an ink-saving model like that before.
> > http://alclione-papermodels.blogspot.com/2009/09/evangelion-asuka.html
> >
> > Jon
>
> Jon,
>
> You might consider something other than coffee or soy beans; their oil
> content may stain the paper. Rice, dried peas or lentils, or other
> small, dry beans should work. Epoxy-coated aquarium gravel is a wholly
> inert and inorganic option that won't decay and/or attract insects and
> rodents as the rice or beans would.
> --
> Mike Hungerford
> http://www.chthulhu.com/
> If it can't be taken apart, you don't own it.
>
> >
>


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