KITCHEN
Plastic cutlery, particularly spoons.
Freezer bag ties (extract the wire).
Bamboo skewers.
Cocktail sticks.
Dried Tea.
Ice lolly/popsicle sticks (strong and about the right size for 28mm
planks).
One-shot filter coffee containers. (Ideal
sci-fi vents).
Yoghurt pots.
Matches
Plastic straws (black are the best, as they don't show so much if
paint chips off).
Card (usually thin) from packaging.
MISC
12g CO2 canisters from paintball and airguns.
Rifle cartridge casings.
Plastic packing strip (the stuff with a diamond shaped grid on it)
Humbrol plastic paint pots - (good sci-fi barrels).
Corrugated cardboard with fine ribbing. (Usually found in packaging
of lightbulbs, small electrical items or kitchenware).
Guitar strings, the thinner ones make good antennae.
PLASTIC
Hard plastic tops from bottles and jars.
Hair curler inners.
Aerosol caps (v. rigid plastic).
Pill dispensers.
Drain and soil pipe sections (but difficult to glue).
CD and cassette cases.
Film containers (use as paintpots).
Sprue from plastic model kits.
Cassettes, CDs, floppy disks.
Tic-tac boxes
DIY
Tiling spacers. (The grid
on this bunker was made from them).
Unused rivets (this one is just over an inch long. 
Old nuts, washers and bolts.
Tightly threaded screws & bolts. (Ones with a very open thread are
very recognisable, tightly threaded ones just look like ribbed piping).
Off-cuts of plastic and copper piping.
Wire.
Cable ties.
Lino - the best is the non-slip stuff with grit in it which can be painted as tarmac.
BATHROOM
Shampoo tops. Timotei ones make excellent turrets.
Disposable razors.
Shampoo bottles (bit flexible but OK with glue gun). This dropship
body was based around one.
Plastic tube from cotton buds.
Loofah (foliage).
Sponge (dye and then glue on flock for foliage).
GARDEN
Dried seed pods.
Twigs.
Moss
ELECTRONICS
Electrical fuses (cheap enough to buy - about 10p each).
All old electrical items.
Starters from fluorescent tubes.
Watch batteries.
STATIONARY
Pens and propelling pencils.
Staples (glue in a row for ladders or cut up for surface mounted
wire).
Paper clips.
Card inner ring from adhesive tapes. A large one can be turned into
the walls of a round hut.
Fountain pen cartridges.
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