Tips & Tricks 4: Avoiding the carpet monster with Photoetch

This is a really good tip if you are working with small photoetch parts , nothing is worse than cutting off that vital PE part & ping the carpet monster will find it !
You will find it 3 months later while searching for another stray PE piece !



Use the wide Tamiya tape & tape across the back ( side without the part numbers ) of all frets in the set , then the whole fret does not go astray either . Then with a sharp knife , cut all bits required for the assembly sequence you are working on . Only pull them off the tape as needed

Jenny

Good idea!
Thanks

Regards
Noel

We use a method similar to this in the vinyl sign transfer process.
Thanks
Chris

OK THAT'S IT
OFF COMES THE CARPET

this monster"s appetite for small pe and other minute partsis unsatiable. it does not know where to stop just. like ST GEORGE im going to get rid of him once and for all
im ordering parquett just for my room no matter what the wife says (she loves her carpets more than me it seems)
alex

alex wrote:OK THAT'S IT
OFF COMES THE CARPET

this monster"s appetite for small pe and other minute partsis unsatiable. it does not know where to stop just. like ST GEORGE im going to get rid of him once and for all
im ordering parquett just for my room no matter what the wife says (she loves her carpets more than me it seems)
alex

Beware! Even a parquet can be dangerous. Don't you remember that T1000 in Terminator 2
Seriously, whatever the composition of your floor as soon as you hear "PING", you're in trouble

BTW, good tip Jenny

Jenny,
Great How To...
I have a picture of the carpet monster from and old show... I will try and find it and add it here, so those
modelers that have never seen him/her will know what to look out for...
Shawn

thanks for the great tip

Jenny,
Here is the photo that I was telling you about...
I snapped it at a local contest in 2007.
Thought it might help other be on the look out for this dangerous character...
Shawn

that is cool Shawn very different ,ive been looking for this guy a long time!!

shawngehling wrote:Jenny,
Here is the photo that I was telling you about...
I snapped it at a local contest in 2007.
Thought it might help other be on the look out for this dangerous character...
Shawn

Haha love it!
Very ingenious...

Great, simple tip! I've lost loads of parts to the tiled floor monster - believe me, it can happen on there, too!

Excellent council Yesterday for 20 minutes searched, hasn't found

Great idea................

im always dropping small bits and one invaluable tool ive found is maglite torch (flashlight to our north american bretheren ).....its a case of turning out the lights, getting on hands and knees and getting all CSI with the maglite......with the room lights out and the bright light from the maglite even the smallest thing will stand out

I recall on fellow proposed a 1/2 apron type catcher.......One end had ties of course and the other end was attached to the work bench (velcro??) edge........

....and if the carpet monster DO get some parts, just take the vacuumcleaner with an old nylonstocking from the Mrs. on the end....you´ll collect all the debris in no-time!!

John.