Studs or nails...

Brother Meredith said:
I got a bag of those tiny ball bearings from Amazon for studs on space marine conversions. Very fiddly to work with tho, hate to think how many have pinged off the desk never to be seen again!!
Can get (wax?) tipped tools to pick up such small modelling bits, but am too tight to purchase one given how rarely I’d need it…
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I got tons of diamond art 'pens' if one of those would be useful?
 
Brother Meredith said:
Can get (wax?) tipped tools to pick up such small modelling bits, but am too tight to purchase one given how rarely I’d need it…
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Although I have a gem pencil, a crayon works just as well, you can get a point on it by using a pencil sharpener. I also do some silver jewellery making, and it's a tip for working with gems.
 
Right so I've spent a while sorting out the ceramics from the carbon and now have a little bag of balls! Fun for a while, but it did get rather tedious.

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Who wants some? Unless you need all those @ManicMan I'm happy to split it and send out a couple of goodie bags!
 
Brother Meredith said:
Can get (wax?) tipped tools to pick up such small modelling bits, but am too tight to purchase one given how rarely I’d need it…
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If they're chopped plastic studs I use a pin. If beads still a pin, but dipped in a tiny, tiny dot of superglue. The glue between bead and model will hold much more strongly than between pin and bead.
 
Ceramic tweezers for these ceramic balls. Not the best tweezers around (they are cheap ones) but work fine for this.
 
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