I use bread clips constantly to add little details or extend some parts. Turn them around and consider all angles. Every shape and every piece is useful.
when i joined the miniature hobby a few years ago it opened up this whole new world of custom detail using anything you can imagine. I now translate that gunpla too and honestly it became easier since gunpla are much larger and have more things you can add
Zach I’ve never mentioned it before but a couple years ago you did an episode of plamo no trend(?), with josh, about kenou and it was in the very beginning of my scale model journey. I was so amazed by his work that it literally drew me into the hobby and essentially help shape my “style” of building altogether! Something about the extra armor plates and rivets really spoke to me on some level. So thanks for that dude, seriously. Idk what I’d be doing, I doubt I would of developed such an interest into scale modeling if I hadn’t of learned about Japanese builders and their detail driven designs for gunpla. 🙏
When I wanted to attach Fake Nu funnels to my EG Nu Gundam, I glued bread clips onto Nu's backpack to widen the peg. Some light sanding, and it was just a matter of test-fitting the funnels onto that area.
My best guess is that it’s regional, esp with plastic production regulations being tightened the twist ties and cardboard clips might be less subject to production tax or something like that. I’ve never seen the cardboard ones, I live in the northeast USA, I’ve only seen the plastic clips and the twist ties.
This is absolutely fantastic! Can't eat bread, allergic, but not I'm going to buy multiple loaves, throw the bread out and walaa! Instant modification piece!❤😂
Man! Great video! Shows some real creativity and ingenuity. Impeccable camera work as well my dude. Been watching your channel for years and you continue to produce new and interesting styles of videos. Great work . Your appreciated. Question: is Trendy Machinery B.Duck & Spa Duck Model Kit on your radar? The kit looks crazy and fun.
I've been gathering these for a few years but I use them in everything from Gunpla and miniatures to terrain and toy customizing. The material is excellent.
If you cut too thick, you can always sand down, but you can’t go the other way. So with those clip pieces you were doing I think you could have an easier time standing down in case you don’t have the point in your area.
This is actually a cool idea, never thought of that before. My first thought was to use the sides of the bread clip as a scribing guide, the wavy design on the edge would probably look cool as a scribed panel line, but the other methods are pretty cool too. I’m still struggling with pla plating techniques, my hands aren’t trained to be still enough so I end up cutting unevenly and it doesn’t look good enough. Also I never noticed how cool the MG Red warrior is. Might have to put that kit on my wishlist
I cant believe i never thought of this! Love the videos like this and i hope to see more customization tip videos! I really want to get into customizing my gunpla more, Awesome video!
Awesome video, excited to see the color scheme you have in mind for this. Would be cool to see a video on dressing up hgs with like joint covers and inner skirt details.
I keep the thin plastic water bottle tops lol. I like a lot of ground types so I stack them to make a little base to prop up legs and have something to kneel on. Plus I make paper models and a lot of the time it adds weight and flat surface so they don't fall over when a door closes. This i most definitely will try too.
Is this a series? It should be, if it's not. Personally, I love finding out new and exciting ways to add little, custom touches using found items around the house. Used to do this type of thing for a bit when I thought I was going to get into 40k to build terrain...then the pandemic hit and no one could do that type of thing for about a year (getting together to game).
If you have a strong enough magnet, the bread clips work decently as a detail piece to replace a peg if you cut it up. A friend of mine did so with an upgraded EG kit he was working on and told me about it...unfortunately, I then found out that the magnets I picked were not strong enough anyway, but wouldn't go through extra pieces of phot-etch that I was using for my own EG upgrade
Darn, my gardenia plastic bags thrown out along with those clips. 😱 Anyways, that tip is very neat way for it being a pla-plates there. If you want to measure the thickness, try a Vernier Caliper (normal or digital ones)
Dude... Bread bag clips are like Swiss Army Knives that rank up there with Duct Tape! Lol... As a kid my mom taught me how to trim a bag clip in order to turn it into a guitar pick. 🤔🤘😏
interesting! when i made my hyaku shiki wfm ver, i wanted to do the torso extension but i don't have any plaplate. So i ended up using the uhhh tabs on the hyaku shiki runners that i assume they used for plating the plastic. Sandwiched two of them and made a hole in the middle using a combination of cement, hobby knife, and soldering tool (yeah the build is very janked)
Oh this is really neat. Little Extra pla plates when you buy bread. Here's the problem, I threw them away after all these years and now I should start collecting them...now?? 😂 (to some defense I only started building since 2020). Bread is also getting inflated here in the US, I think I'm still going to stay with evergreen.
Nice creative tip, thanks. I am guessing you could also use anything of similar physical quality to bread clips. Say like an unused plastic filing folder?
I noticed some of the plates on those pictures you posted look like they have tiny rivets on them, is there an easy way to add those on pla plate? Also, would you recommend trying these kinds of really tiny detail work even on HG kits or other 1/144 kits?
speaking of bread, meanwhile in Japan they sell plastic model kits of bread, I kid you not as in a bread model kit you assemble and paint, the selling point is they can be used as a "fake dummy sample" display in a bakery.
I save those wires and I can use them for repairs if a piece breaks and it needs reinforcement. Then I drill in tiny holes and then glue pieces of the wire into the holes to reconnect the piece/pieces back together and if it needs a stronger/bigger connection then I use a paper clip. It all depends on the size of the repair.
You take the open bread bag and twist the left over bag and slip the twisted bit of bag in the clip through the top and it holds it. i0.wp.com/asustainablysimplelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bread-Bag.jpg?resize=384%2C467&ssl=1