Tools you might need:
Some basic tools you will need are:
- Hand Drill or Dremel tool, tiny drill bits, and grinding stones
- Small size Tap and Die Set
- Scissors, many shapes and sizes, and some specialty scissors like "Canopy Scissors"
- Tiny Screw Driver and Nut Driver set
- Knifes
- Utility knifes
- "Exacto" Knifes of all sizes and shapes
- Single Edge Razor blades
- Pizza cutter (Yes you read that right, a big round one on a handle)
- Straight Edge Rulers, measuring devices,
- Postal weight scale
- Saws and cutters, Including mini-hacksaw, mini-scroll saw, Jeweler's saw
- Electrical Tools, needle nose pliers, wire cutters, strippers, Soldering Iron and stand
- Twenty pound sledge hammer (not really, Just seeing if your paying attention :-)
- Small files of all sizes and shapes (Jewelers files)
- Sandpaper from 80 grit to 400 grit
- Rubber gloves, masks, paint and epoxy mixing sticks, Clamps, and T-Pins (various lengths)
Some optional equipment you may want:
Model Spray paint airbrush, Small spray booth with exhaust fan, Hot-wire Foam cutting equipment (for shaping wings and other large foam pieces.)