{"id":43093,"date":"2024-11-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=43093"},"modified":"2024-11-07T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:58:39","slug":"gars-tips-tools-issue-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/gars-tips-tools-issue-188\/","title":{"rendered":"Gar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #188"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gar\u2019s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up\u00a0here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Notes and Recipes for the Shop<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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I was recently looking through some of my old game miniatures and terrain and found some pieces of \u201cscatter terrain\u201d that I\u2019d made for the awesome post-apocalyptic car combat game Gaslands<\/a> (think: Mad Max<\/em>). These are probably some of the best pieces I\u2019ve ever modeled and painted and I have no memory of the colors, techniques, and tricks I used (it was many years ago). I now kick myself for not taking notes. A decade ago, I was really good about keeping a Cahiers notebook<\/a> with notes from my projects, what parts and techniques I\u2019d employed. Because of that, I can still recreate those projects today. Seeing these successful terrain pieces has caused me to re-dedicate myself to keeping project notes and recipes, paint colors used, key learnings, etc. moving forward. Above is a notebook I made years ago for keeping shop notes in my garage. It hangs from a pegboard there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the best terrain I\u2019ve ever painted. If only I could remember the techniques I used.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

House Paint Touch-Up Bottles<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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I got a huge bump in subscribers after a recent Retro Recomendo newsletter<\/a> mentioned me. Twice. One piece was about Gar\u2019s<\/em> Tips & Tools<\/em> itself (\u201cEach issue has several handy tidbits about interesting tools, novel ways to use tools, and how to maintain your workshop\u201d). The other was something I wrote for Cool Tools<\/a> many years ago about these house paint touch-up bottles<\/a>. \u201cAfter you finish painting a room, pour a little of the left-over paint into one of these small touch up bottles. The plastic bottles contain a small applicator brush inside (plus a marble to shake\/stir the paint) which makes it super easy to break it out to touch up as things happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wonderful Metal Filing Tutorial from 1942<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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