1:72 Tow cables

Modeling Subjects Armor
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Hello

I would like to add tow cables to my current project, only I dont know what to use to make them.

Thanks for the help.

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Not sure what subject you are building but you could try the Dragon line of 1/72 armor series. I have the King Tiger kit and there are some tow cables with this kit. These kits are pretty inexpensive also around $8. Not sure how to scratchbuild them but I have seen small braided wire used in the control cables of R/C airplanes. Try the R/C shop.
TH

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It has been mentioned by others in other threads that you can get various sizes of picture hanging wire from Wal-Mart for cheap.

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Those are great ideas. Thanks for the help.

BTW Im building Dragons 1:72 Elefant

Thanks again

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I think that picure hanger wire would be too thick for 1/72, because it it makes a nice 1/35 cable. For 1/72, I would think that maybe some good speaker cable might have thin wire to spin into a nice cable.

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Get some electrical wire, thin one. Get 3 or 4 wires together, hold each extremity with a set opf fingers and twist until you have a very convincing new cable! You can reach the same effect more rapidly by using a mini-drill, if you have one: attach one extremity to, say a door hangle, insert the other into the business end of the drill, set for low speed and spin away!

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Just remember if you’re making your own cables…German cables had a left hand twist, Allied a right hand twist. (Now let’s get out there and count those rivets!!! lol

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I didn’t know that ! Thanks wipw !

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This is a subjecst I have been wondering about myself. How do you deal with the end loops?

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I don’t know if German cables use the same kind of ends as American cables. However for my 1/35 Sherman, I carved some for my out of evergreen styrene sheet. Basically, I drilled two small holes side-by-side in the sheet to form the inside of the eye. I then cut the outside, which gave me a square sectioned end. Using a no.11 exacto blade, jeweller’s files, and a bit of fine sand paper, I was able to round the inside of the eye. I then end drilled the shank, where the cable fits into it, and super glued the cable in place. I then rounded all the outside corners, mostly with a Flexi-File, and they were done. Doing the same thing in 1/72 would be more difficult, but probably not impossible.