homemade parts

[angermanagment33x]

ways to make cetain thing using houshold items, just helpful hits on how to make cetain things, without having to use the normal styrene.

[angermanagment33x]

i found you can use carboard for styrene sheets but it has to be smooth cardboard like cereal box cardboard, jewlery boxes candy boxes ect ect you can make tubs, door panels, roof signs, custom hoods,trunks. plated body panels. i know for a fact that if you can't get your hands on a set of dec resin headers you can allways use coffee stir's for headers, med size straws, soder. slipshafts you can make using coffe stir's and a piece of stright sodering iron. anything else some one wants to add on how you can make a custom part using thing's you can find around the house?

[1972vw]

I've used paperclips to make an engine mounted gas pedal, I use the parts trees that come with the model to make my cages and they can be used for headers as well. Some random nuts and bolts from my garage made good bolts for my hood and trunk. Burn off the paper/plastic from a twist tie...and you have scale #9 wire. I once took a set of batteries from a lowrider model, trimmed them a bit, and then carefully wrapped them in masking tape. I painted them red and I had fuel tanks. I use thread to wire up my engines, for brake lines I use jewlrey making wire.

[deadman]

for cages I sometimes use toothpicks and or popsicle sticks. for headers I use electrical wire (home use) , to use for a filler panel such as cutting out the gas tank and filling that hole in use just a piece of envelope! they are perfect for the simple fact is there flat!

[deadman]

here is another one for ya. for shifters dirctly off the tranny I use a small piece of wire, clean it up and make up your own shifter handle.

[chevyracing572]

ice cream buckets & lids are a good source of plastic. They arent as good to use as styrene but the plastic is easy to cut and cheap, so you dont have to worry about wasting it.
I used coffee stirrers and drinkng straws to make the headers on a car I built a few years ago, but they are hard to bend and work with.
I used the twisty-tie trick that 1972vw said above on the mustang I built. It does look like real fencing wire.

[banditmotorsports]

i use the spiral out of a spirial notebook for my gas lines

[modeljunky]

Small sewing needle for hood pins on racecars..it the craft dep, get pins with the big colored heads on them make great shifts. on my autocar dump truck( pic in post) i used the bendy part of a bendy straw on the smoke stack.

[white5trash7racing]

i use guitar string for all-thread, has a threaded look to it and is the right size, and you can get differnt sizes

[outlaw72x]

i cut off the paper from twist ties like 1972vw said. the little thing of metal is good for lines and i also use it to tie my hoods down