Greetings!
I’m working on Tamiya’s 1/35 M20 Armored Car, and I want to add tie downs that I saw in Osprey’s M8 and Squadron’s Armored Cars In Action books…
This is what I want to use
I planned on cutting them in thirds for a total of 18 tie downs…placing four on each of the engine compartment covers, four on either side of the upper armored hull and two on the front of the car…
Does that look about right? I cant really tell, and I am pretty sure they are the same scale thickness…
Thanks!
are those rods styrene or brass or what??
it is two strands of a 22 gauge wire…I put one end in a pair of hemostats, the other end with my bent angle tweezers, and spin the hemostats.
Here is what the strand looks like:
That’s a 20 oz bottle cap for reference… [:D]
I cut them for various lengths, etc. For the antennae on this kit, I took three strands and then spun them. On 1/35 scale armor, four strands loosely spun looks remarkably similar to the weld seams on stuff… I usually get three or four feet of different gauges. 18 gauge wire would have been fine with just a single strand, but I ran out, and spinning the smaller stuff gives it better strength and less chance of being bent.