Nuts About Painting

Currently on my painting bench

I firmly believe that you can gain knowledge from anyone if you are wise enough to recognize it. One day at my real job a student gave me a huge nut with a cork stuck in it. He said he had found it and suggested I take it, so he would not get himself in trouble.  In my pocket it went, and I forgot about it until I cleaned out my pockets later that night.  It sat among the pile of junk that was my dresser along with pen caps, pencils, bent paperclips, change, lint, dice (I serious have no clue how those things end up in my pockets), and other crap.



Inspired by Season 2 of DD

Most of the time when I worked on models, I simply held on to the figures by the base, not realizing how detrimental my skin oils were to model paintjobs.  A blogger was talking about how they used cork to hold models, which I had even tried before but it did not work because it kept falling over. Suddenly I had a combination MacGyver/Eureka moment (that, thankfully, did not involve a man naked in a bathtub) as I rushed up stairs and used the cork, nut, and paperclips to secure a mini. I still have that nut/cork combo, which I have since added to by using other corks and the biggest nuts (too easy to make a joke) I could find at the hardware store. The upside to this method is a miniature painted separate from the base can easily be added to a scenic base later.

 

Method two is using pill caps and blue tack. I much prefer the double sided lids that can be screwed on assuming you don’t need the lids to be child resistant. Sadly, my new pharmacy does not use these lids, so I have to horde what I have.