Cheap Modelling Materials Sources

[LNERW1]

LNERW1 doesn't ask nicely... he asks VERY nicely and gets everyone to do everything for him! I want to get in to O gauge anyway (not right now obviously) so I might buy a kit or four for the future.

[commerlad]

Cheap motor connection wires.........

Go to your local charity shop and get a couple of the old Scart leads take home and strip.

Desoldering braid, can be obtained by stripping old Coax aerial lead.

Scale fuel delivery hose, Thin shoelaces

Caravan thin plastic fly screen works as various in different scales, chain link fence etc, cutting off a single line makes barbed wire. Concrete rebar in N

Old window blinds, The curved metal ones coach and van rooves, the more modern wooden ones lots of thin hardwood.

Fishing line lots of uses just ask your local angler for old part spools.

Dettol makes a good paint stripper but is more forgiving on plastic.