Sprue holder ?????

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Hi Everybody
Have you ever seen a tool or modelling gadget that you didn't know you needed till you spotted it ??? i recently been combing the japanese and chinese shops/sites for new tools and spotted this on a gundam forum
Now the current state of our Country's finances means they are taxing everything imported into the uk hence i decided to make my own and maybe make one more suited to what i need.
So my first stop is ebay to find off cuts of correx, its like a corrugated plastic sheet easily cut with a stanley knife and i found 8 sheets of A4 for a Tenner. Next up i ordered 10mm thick motorcycle race seat foam to hold the sprues and hopefully all the different sprue sizes in AFV kits.

The Correx can be glued with a hot melt glue gun so i ordered a pack of sticks as they seem to go so quick, if you have struggled with hot glue guns theres some great youtube sites with tips and tricks.

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I did a quick sketch and i mean quick....
and got what i needed together...

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i glued the base with a 15mm ledge just under the front lip to tip the base back slightly,and reinforced it with scrap strips of Correx.

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You can see here i have fitted the foam strips and left a 4mm gap between each strip for each sprue to fit, the foam is self-adhesive and grabs as soon as you fit it so you have to make sure first time it fits where you want it.

once the holder was altogether i added a piece of scrap MDF to give some weight to the base.

And here is finished article...with 3 lots of M113 kits.

Hi Clive
if you mean links to shops i dont mind sharing lol.. but the only shop i used to use was model space in china but they seem to have closed down now. i think the big exporters like trumpy etc are controlling who they sell to as they have there own on-line exporters now, so the only one i rely on in the Eastern hemisphere is bna model world in Australia. They have gundam detail parts and tools too.