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When wondering what kind of technique can or should be used to achieve a certain effect or result. This can range from e.g. drawing or sewing techniques to preparing materials for processing. A detailed description of the desired outcome is recommended.
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Making a rubber duck swim in a tabletop pond
This honestly started as a fun idea, but it might actually work to integrate a magnetic stirrer into the pond.
Image source
Magnetic stirrers are usually used in a lab to (you guessed it) stir liquid …
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creating a pumpkin skin texture for easy dry brushing?
A few thoughts on this:
Acrylic fine structure paste might work much like the PVA glue with sand you proposed, but tends to have a more even structure than randomly collected sand. It also has a pasty …
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How can I speed up the curing process of Mod Podge?
Please keep calm. Most products do have differences between being "fully cured" and being "cured enough to handle".
I have no first-hand experience with this particular type of ModPodge, but 2 weeks s …
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How to knit a cross for 2 stitch cables that is symetrical
There are 2 possibilities that come to my mind.
Don't cross:
For a cable you purl the background and knit the cables while shifting the cable stitches to the left or right in each row. If you don't sh …
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Manually bending an epoxy-resin object: can I adjust the materials to have it remain pliable?
Curing epoxy is a gradual process. It goes from liquid to completely hard in a certain amount of time, but in that time it goes through several stages like goopy, tacky, touch dry and bendy, only slig …
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Make sphere models
You could also 3D print spheres in different colors (representing different atoms) with regular cutouts that serve as sockets for connetors.
One example is this honeycomb sphere:
If you print fitting …
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Technique for making roots\vines for wargaming backgrounds
Look for wire core twine in the garden department or a hobby / craft store.
It's not expensive for the amount you get and comes in various materials, thicknesses and colors. Garden departments usually …
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How can I fix and protect fraying fabric handles?
The best solution I can come up with involves some hand-sewing.
There are so-called "bias tapes" available in almost all shops that sell fabric or sewing supplies. They usually come in in different ma …
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Creating an "oily" effect using acrylic airbrush paints?
In my opinion creating a "shiny" effect with matte paints will always look odd. The human eye is very keen on picking up tiny clues and drawing assumptions from them, so when we see a matte finish we …
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How does Flanders ground connect to cloth stitch?
Five-hole ground is known under several other names like Rose ground, Point a la Vierge, Virgin ground, fond de Mariage, fond de Flandres, Flanders ground, etc (that made it harder for me to find it). …
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Which knitting pattern is particularly heat insulating?
I want to knit a tea cosy like shown in this picture (not affiliated; image source):
I want it to give proper insulation to my tea pot to keep the contents warm for longer. Originally I planned on us …
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Which knitting pattern is particularly heat insulating?
On a fundamental level, heat insulation means trapping hot air around an object (or person) and keeping cool air away from the object (or person). With that in mind I tested a few knitting patterns in …
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Easy way to steam a large piece of velvet
I just got a large piece of velvet (cotton viscose mix) that has some visible damage. I assume that it was rolled up and the roll either layed horizontally or if it was standing up, other heavy rolls …
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Easy way to steam a large piece of velvet
TL;DR: There is no "easy" way to steam velvet, but the result may be worth it for large quantities of it.
My solution was this:
Put the roll of fabric on a dining table that is longer than the roll.
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How is this fabric stretched without folds?
The manufacturer of the original grille eliminated the folds by cutting them away. If you look very closely at the corner, you'll see that the feint lines of the fabric stop abruptly. That's where the …
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