Suppliers

These are places where I found what I needed or that have been recommended to me. There's no guarantee that these items will always be available when you need them. When you find something essential, I'd advise you to buy more than enough. You never know when you'll want to build another figure.

See the Suppliers List on page 195 in Figure Making Can Be Fun for more suppliers.

• The head and hands
  • Puppets and Props
• Irises
  • 15 mm blue: Mercury Plastics Corp, Brooklyn, NY - 718 498 1557
  • 18 mm amber: CR's Crafts - 515-567-3652 (18mm Owl Eyes Part# 0425)
  • BJ's Craft Supplies 16mm Veined Doll Eyes (401-08 and 401-09)
• Casting compounds, wood filler, lubricants and adhesives
  • Elmer's Glue
  • MagicSculp
  • Apoxie Sculpt
  • Zap
  • DAP Wood Dough
  • Plastic Wood
  • LubriMatic White Lithium Grease
• Brass rods and tubes
  • Hobby shops that support RC airplane builders.
• Springs
  • AAA Screen, Window & Door Supply (Part Nos. SP 9601 and SP 9607)
• Nuts, bolts, washers, nylon cord, pulleys (Sliding Screen Door Roller Assembly B-551 or 11116)
  • Lowe's
  • Ace Hardware
  • Home Depot
  • Jamestown Distributors
  • etc...
• Dowels, shelving
  • Lowe's
  • Ace Hardware
  • Home Depot
• Chamois cloth
  • Auto parts stores
• Muslin, polyester fiber stuffing, cotton batting
  • Sewing stores
  • Craft stores
• Styrene
  • Oakridge Hobbies
• Wigs
  • Thrift shops
  • Lacey Costume Wigs - 800-562-9911
  • WigSalon.com
  • WowWigs.com
  • www.BestWig.com
• Acrylic paint, Elmer's glue, brushes, knives, doll heads, dowels, sheet brass, 1/4" basswood boards, etc.
  • Craft shops
  • Hobby shops
  • WalMart
  • etc...
• Ear plugs, band-aids, surgical masks, rubber gloves, aspirin, Valium, etc.
  • The drug store, duh.