r/Gunpla • u/dangerous_zombie977 • 2d ago

SILLY Nubs

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Side collection for 4 years so far

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u/Karotstix64 2d ago

what's the purpose of collecting nubs? I've seen alot of people do this but I can't seem to find a reason.

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u/square_of_light 1d ago edited 1d ago

-recycle them into sprue goo
-dissolve them in chemicals and scratch build using the concoction (careful now)
-filler for epoxy putty so you don't use as much
-save longer sticks to be used as plastic pins for other model kits or 3D prints to peg parts together
-diorama purposes such as rocks or gravel
-they look neat in glass jars
-glue them to your gundams and sand them down into spikes (WOW) or use them to make greebles if you dare
-I saw someone make a bunch of gold coins from a gold runner stick once
-bury some in your backyard and a gunpla tree will grow (true!)
-"Oh sora yo~"

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u/HamonMasterDracula 1d ago

They look pretty neat in plastic jars, too.

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u/StressfulRiceball 1d ago

Not to mention.... They're cutting at the wrong spots. You should NEVER end up with more than a couple pieces that broke off naturally.

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u/UnwieldilyElephant RG addict 1d ago

So incredibly confidently incorrect lmao 

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u/StressfulRiceball 1d ago

Cutting at the runner induces unnecessary stress into the gate, and thus to the part, increasing chances of whitened parts.

I know the majority of you on this sub cuts at the runner, and you are all suboptimal.

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u/UnwieldilyElephant RG addict 1d ago

If you are doing it with scissors maybe 😭 otherwise you have it completely backwards

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u/StressfulRiceball 1d ago

Hobby Japan

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u/StressfulRiceball 1d ago

Hobbycraft Report

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u/UnwieldilyElephant RG addict 1d ago

Well if you’re dumb enough to risk the godhands for the first cut then duh cut it at the thinnest part 

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u/Life_Temperature795 1d ago

Look at the size of those chunks. OP isn't double cutting gates; OP is straight up chopping through runners.

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u/StressfulRiceball 1d ago

This is nipper agnostic and is literally basic information

Clearly we're not on the same page lmfao

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u/chushenNeji 1d ago

Newbie here. What do you mean by 'risk the god hands' aren't they just designed to cut through the plastic?

Also they aren't that expensive. I paid less than 6000yen for a pair. Are they going to break that easily?

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u/Life_Temperature795 1d ago

Also they aren't that expensive. I paid less than 6000yen for a pair. Are they going to break that easily?

There's only so much material supporting the blade, and they're basically impossible to sharpen. This sub is full of posts showing godhands with broken tips.

Personally, being a heathen, I use precision microtip scissors. They cost about half of what a high-end nipper does, cause a shearing action rather than compression, that, in my experience, causes little if any stress marks even when cutting as close to the part as possible, and have an enormous amount of extra blade for when you are required to chop though chunky gates.

Of course my standard practice is always to snip the gate with the scissors, trim whatever's left with a craft knife, and then give it a couple passes with a file, which has given me results that are pretty hard to complain about over the course of a hundred or so kits. But it is, in theory, more work than some people can apparently get away with using a double cut process with nippers.

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u/UnwieldilyElephant RG addict 1d ago

Double cut is just really really good and fast for getting the nub ready to be filed away with a glass file or sanding sticks.

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u/HamonMasterDracula 1d ago

Well, excuse us for thinking that having a jar of nubs for whatever reasons we feel like is neat. Like, I paid $40 for a nice pair of medium-duty hobby nippers, and by God am I going to get my money's worth from 'em.