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Modelmaking Basics: Advanced Tips for Working With Cardboard, Matboard and Chipboard
How to cut perfect circles, use water to help shaping, achieve a nice paint finish and more
By Rain Noe - Oct 04
Industrial designer Eric Strebel's video on Cardboard Modeling Basics drew a lot of eyeballs last week. This week he's back with an advanced Part 2, where he covers how to cut perfect circles into cardboard/matboard/chipboard using a nifty tool, shaping and bending tricks, how to paint the stuff to get a nice finish and more:
Rain Noe
Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.
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By Rain Noe - Oct 01
Great Example of Building Your Own Tools: Two Clever DIY Objects for Perfectly Cutting Vinyl Tubing
Plus a free template, so you can easily make one
ID students: Now that the semester's in full swing, you're hopefully covered in blue foam dust from executing projects in the shop. And while all of you are learning to use existing tools, eventually you'll run into a problem they can't solve, and you'll have to design and build your
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By Rain Noe - Sep 27
Modelmaking Basics: Tips for Working With Cardboard, Matboard and Chipboard
FoamCore is often the go-to modelmaking material for designers and architects. But there are times when you may opt for matboard/chipboard/cardboard due to budget, availability or color. These materials obviously don't behave in the same way as FoamCore, but you can still get good results if you follow some basic
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By Rain Noe - Sep 25
Need Hardware? Here's a German McMaster-Carr Alternative with a U.S. Distributor
Kipp is a good resource if you need high-quality, German-made parts for jigs or prototypes
If you're looking for hard-to-find hardware, McMaster-Carr is a great resource, but one issue is that the website doesn't tell you the provenance and quality of parts that you order. So if you're building a jig, fixture or prototype and you need high-quality, well-made parts built in Germany, another resource
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By Rain Noe - Sep 21
How to Hack a Sketchbook to Store a Hidden iPad Mini
Plus: What kind of sketchbook do soldiers carry?
Industrial designer Eric Strebel has already filled the sketchbook he previously hacked, so it's time for a new one. This time around, he's got a different idea: To "build a special sketchbook that contains my iPad," he writes. "I have long wanted to be able to combine the analog of
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