Flory Models : Sanding sticks : Skinny Sticks : Product Review

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hello there and welcome to Genesis

models my name is Bobby Waldren and in

this uh video we're going to be having a

product review of the flurry models uh

sanding stick range um there's a lot of

sanding sticks here um they normally

generally generally um around about

price of

£4.99 you can get them um pretty much at

all online

retailers um places like models Areo e

models um sprew Brothers in the US you

can pretty much get them everywhere even

hanant um you know so they are widely

available um the only price difference

is I do believe this is this one is just

checking uh this one is £399 the um the

the flat um Sponge sanding stick and I

do believe these flat sanding sticks

are

um they are

£450 everything else is £4.99 so let's

keep keep this simple uh and let's have

a look at the multi pack the nice

starter pack right here so let's start

off with this multi pack now in this

multi pack you get these three sanding

sticks as you can see here now these

three sanding sticks just nice and

generally get you in nicely started with

sanding it basically does most of your

general tasks right so to start off with

um let's take our black one here it's

got a bit of a Spong

so say for example um this fuel tank

here it's got a nice curvature which in

um aircraft modeling we do find that we

do sand out quite a lot of curvatures

and what it's got It's got this nice

medium sort of fine sanding grit on one

side it's got this sponge and what the

sponge will do is it will kind it will

basically hopefully as you can see it

will go with the curvature rather than a

flat sanding stick which would basically

give you a bit of a flat top it would

flatten it off and it wouldn't we

wouldn't have this nice circular um fuel

tank so what we'll do is we start off by

simply lightly sand in the top of this

fuel tank I'll just do the middle bit

right and if you glued it nicely you

shouldn't really have to do much more

than that really I mean that was

basically it a nice little sanding just

to take um most of it off with this nice

medium to fine sanding Grit we can then

move along to our um blue sanding stick

now this one as you can see is much more

spongier so we can really finish this

off making sure we're keeping with the

curvature of our fuel tank right and

it's a nice fine sanding stick which we

can just nicely sand away at this going

with a curvature and just finishing it

off smoothing it off you can also with

these sanding sticks dip in a bit of

water and you can do a wet sand now wet

sanding is really good um basically cuz

what happens is you probably going to

see

now after just sanding this for a bit

we've got all this um basically sanding

dust has been caught actually on the

model so what this means is instead of

this sanding dust kind of going up in

the air up in your lungs it's basically

um being captured by the water and it

just makes things a little bit more

safer Plus do find it gets a little bit

more smoother if you wet Sandy as well

and that basically is it for these um

basic um multi pack here it really does

just give you two sanding sticks which

will do most jobs of um sanding which is

really really great for a beginner to

just buy it 44.99 and there you go you

away um you also do get this um

polishing sanding stick it is a pol

polishing sanding stick so it doesn't

like sand down your seam lines or

anything like that what it does it's

good for getting your canopies out you

can give your canopies of Polish if you

got a seam line down the canopy you know

you can use the blue side just to start

to um sand it back a bit use the white

side to then polish it up to a really

nice Crystal Clear um shine to it so

it's really good for that and the blue

side as well if you've ever got sort of

like um a bit of say you've got a model

sprayed it maybe you've had a bit of a

Vortex problem um and the surface is

maybe a bit rough you can use the blue

side and what you can do you can just

nicely sand away at your paint workor

which might sound a bit scary but if you

sand away at it what it does it just

lightly removes the roughness of the

paint work but when you remove your

sanding stick what you've got is your

paint Works still there it just feels

smoother you've just got rid of the

roughness cuz it's so so f

um so that's also a good sanding stick

as well um to start off with so let's

now look at some some of the more sort

of um you know not so um used sanding

sticks also forgot to mention was um you

do have the options of different buying

Powers here cuz um you could buy the

multi pack nice for a beginner but as

maybe you get in along and you're

getting um better with your modeling you

might want to go out and buy the the

triple packs where basically you can get

your your sanding sticks in like a

triple pack um both the black sand there

the Blue Sand there the polishing sander

you can get two um all all

£44.99 as well so that's like a nice

little touch to you know buy differently

if you want to next fies I want to just

quickly touch on is the flat sanding

sticks as you can see here you can buy

them um separate these are like £450

remember um just got them here as well

off camera now these are um you've got

nice different sanding grits here you've

got a nice fine sanding grit you've got

like a nice

medium um and sort of like a bit of a CO

on the other side and then you got sort

of like a more coarser and then even

more coarser on on the other side so

you've got lots of different grits

you've got like six different grits

going on here but it's in the um flat

sanding stick format so as you can see

here with a a general purpose sort of um

sanding stick that I use um it's a lot

thinner so it has more of a flatter

surface to it now as I say you don't

want to use these when it comes to doing

um say fuel tanks because you're going

to put a nice flat top on there which is

not what you want but it's sort of like

when you do come to doing sort of like

some flat sanding maybe you've got like

a bit of a flat spot somewhere you know

it's a bit better and easier to do it

that way for example um or um what I

like to use these for mainly is if I

ever use super glue to actually um fill

in gaps or something like that cuz super

glue can be a bit um hard to sand out so

these nice flat sanding sticks with

really sort of nice coarse um sanding

sticks as well you can really sort of

get rid of the um the actual super glue

side of things and then you can revert

back to you know our sort of our general

purpose sanding sticks we got there um

but I don't use these as much but it's

nice to have them for when you need them

so you kind of ready for all sorts of

sanding tasks um but moving along we

come to the um skinny sanding stick

range um which is a really nice range to

have um as I say for a beginner it's all

good to go with your multi pack but you

know once you start getting along with

your modeling and getting better and

more professional you really do want to

get your hands on the skinny stick range

so let's um have a look at these in

their single format now these packs

again

$4.99 but you do get um well you get a

pack of 10 with the the blue Sanders and

then it is a pack of 12 with the normal

flat Sanders and then it's a pack of 10

with your um your your your black

polisher which is

basically um this thing but in skinny

form so let's have a look at um this

first now we got our general purpose the

one that we like to use right and we can

get that now in a skinny sanding stick

form as well which is really nice to

have you also get um again I've already

shown you the blue one here nice fine

sanding stick you can get that also in

uh a skinny stick form as well which is

also really good and then remember the

flat sanding sticks I was talking about

just um you can also get these but also

in skinny sanding stick form and these

ones are really cool because what you do

get you get it in color so you know um

you know this nice fine sanding stick um

is green and then I do believe it is the

medium is like a blue and then the white

is like your more sort of coarse skinny

sanding sticks now why do we want skinny

sanding sticks well they're really good

for getting into those hard to reach

places so for example as well um we've

got some eject pin marks just inside

this

F14 um tomat piece here on the new

section what we can do we can come along

with say our course and we know it's

course because it's white and what we

can do is we can pick out one of our um

ejector pin marks in here that we might

want to get rid of right and we can just

Target that real nicely real quickly and

get that done really nice and then we

can come down the Grits until we reach

um our fine sanding stick our green one

right and have that all nicely smoothed

off and even come in if you want to

totally finish it off we say something

like our nice sponge it's just a good

way of getting rid of those objective

pin marks uh and getting in there a lot

easier than trying to get in with these

bulky um sanding sticks getting in there

so you know that's one of the things for

um sand skinny sing sticks the other one

is I mean anything to do with um air

intakes or engine exhaust you know these

skinny sanding sticks really do um you

know come in great use because you could

you just cannot get these big sanding

sticks in there but these um mini

sanding sticks we can really get in

there get our seamline and we can just

Target that seam line completely and

utterly nicely with your mini sanding

stick you know just like so and you can

work through your different

grits and getting it all nice and smooth

right so you know if you've ever had

those problems where you know you got

all seam lines going on in your air

intakes and you know it doesn't look

quite nice you can really get in there

with all these different types of skinny

sanding sticks so it really is um a good

one to get when you're sort of getting

intermediate and advanced with your

modeling um so that's that the next

fingers as well we've also got um these

These are 3 P99 and it basically is just

a nice big sheet of our U blue sponge

fine sanding stick we have here which is

really sort of like um you can use it

for all sorts of tasks I mean we can get

um we can do a nice big flat sanding you

know really sort of get go into areas

where we can really sort of flat sand um

we can cut these up into all different

shapes and stick them onto whatever you

want to stick them on to to specifically

Target a Pacific sanding job um I mean

this is more for like you intermediate

Advanced people you know who want to do

Pacific sort of sanding um but again you

know all those I'm sorry but again you

know your multi pack really does get you

going as a beginner and as you you want

to spend more money on the hobby you

know you can go off and get all these

other nice uh sanding sticks for those

specific jobs um so to kind of finish

off I just want to kind of give you a

not at there these are washable so you

can um I don't know if you if you've

want to kind of get some water in a

toothbrush and maybe wash down your

sanding sticks to give them a bit more

life into them as well um as well not

only that these skinny sanding sticks

they may sound like they cost a lot cuz

I mean we have got five different types

here they're about5 each you do get like

about 12 sanding sticks in each pack

right and these sanding sticks really do

last a long time especially these skinny

sanding sticks cuz it's so easy I'll

just bring you in so easy to say I mean

with these sanding sticks these skinny

ones it's normally the ends that really

sort of get used what I like to do is

when they sort of start to get used like

you seeing here I'm just getting the the

ends done what you do you get your

Cutters and you can really just nicely

cut them nice and perfect like so and

they're all good to go again um you know

and as you can see you've got quite a

bit of length there where you can cut

down and cut down and cut down and then

you can jump onto another sanding stick

which you've already remember got 12 to

10 of them in a pack so as much as

they're costly once you've brought them

they are going to last you absolute

donkeys um and to be honest with you as

well these um this fine sanding stick

here and all the other sanding sticks I

have been um using them for quite some

time and they really do last a long long

time it's not as if you know you're

going to buy them and throw them at out

um pretty soonish they do really really

do um last a long time little tip as

well this blue wine I mean once this is

W worn down I like to kind of keep a

really nice worn down one and use it for

canopies cuz um once these have worn

down they get kind of like really fine

and they really do work well for sort of

getting your canopies

um sanded started before you come along

with your your polishing sticks just a

kind of a little tip there you know

don't throw away the used ones of them

um so that's it uh as I can say um they

are sort of nicely priced they do last a

long time you can wet sand them you can

cut them you've got so many different

options for so many different um sanding

tasks um yeah I mean I've got to

recommend these they are definitely a

recommended um tool and I do use them at

Genesis models I've used them for years

um you know so if you want to go ahead

and buy them again they're about £4.99

you can get them at any top online

retail store um from Models Aro brw

Brothers e- models you know you name it

you can pretty much get it anywhere so

hopefully that's been a nice beneficial

inbox review for you and I hope you've

enjoyed so until next time my name is

Bobby walren and I hope you've enjoyed

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