Not too many years ago, we used a mylar silver tape for cropping and binding slides. It was fairly easy to use and with a little care you could remove to straighten. It was a MMM product, but I don't have a clue what product # would have been. I do think a well stocked art supply store would probably still carry it.
We used the same product for wet handling the bleaching of film layers. Back in the day you could purchase bleaches for correcting color shifts on transparency films. We would cover a little area of the film with this tape and then bleach. We then removed the tape and dried the film for comparison purposes. So it was waterproof and held firm for permanent use too. Bob Werre > > > Re the metal foil tape, you can probably also find it in the auto body > repair outlets. It appears to be the same stuff as is used for > furnace ducting. It grabs like crazy so you will get only one chance > to align it correctly. Trying to remove a mis-aligned piece of this > tape from a a scratch built styrene model could potentially damage it. > > Cheers > Jim Martin > > ________________________________ > From: Peter Vanvliet <[email protected] <mailto:pavanvliet%40att.net>> > To: [email protected] <mailto:peter%40pmrr.org> > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:32:28 PM > Subject: {S-Scale List} Scratchbuilt PRR H21a Finished > > > Hello All, > > I am happy to report the completion of the construction of my very first > scratchbuilt freight car (regardless of scale). It is a PRR H21a Quad > Hopper. Some far more experienced modelers may laugh at my effort, but > we all have to start somewhere. I made lots of mistakes, but all-in-all, > the final item does somewhat resemble a PRR H21a... if you squint... > hard... :-) > > I took me three months of free modeling time to build this car. I had a > lot of fun. I was hoping I was going to enjoy the process, and I did. I > have ordered several engineering drawings from the Pennsylvania Railroad > Technical & Historical Society for this car. When they arrive, I plan to > build more of them, hopefully with more accuracy and with the experience > of building this first one under my belt. > > I still need to weather the car, and I also need to build a coal load > for it. > > The from-start-to-finish article starts on this page: > > http://pmrr.org/Equipment/H21a/Scratchbuild.htm > > If you just want to see the final car, see the last photo on this page: > > http://pmrr.org/Equipment/H21a/ScratchbuildFinalizing.htm > > My next major project is to scratchbuild an accurate copy of the > Canonsburg, Pennsylvania passenger station. Preliminary rough guesses > lead me to believe I can build the model full-width to scale. It is > going to be up against my backdrop, so it will only be a few inches deep. > > Enjoy, > - Peter. > > -- > Peter Vanvliet ([email protected] <mailto:pavanvliet%40att.net>, or > [email protected] <mailto:peter%40fourthray.com>) > Houston, Texas > > "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..." > > http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>) > http://fourthray.com/ (my company) > http://houstonsgaugers.org/ (model railroad club) > -- > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
