Hey Fellow Modelers,
Does any aftermarket company make wheel chocks in various scales? Or is there a good way to makle them?
Thx, John
The Hasegawa 1/72 Ground Support Equipment set has some, I think. They would be fairly easy to scratch build. Take a piece of scrap sprue and sand or carve the top, sides and bottom to the appropriate cross section and size. Paint them yellow and hook tgether with a piece of yellow or tan thread. The chocks on full scale aircraft come in various sizes to fit the intended plane. A piece of wood big enough to go across both wheels of a B-52 boggie would be way to large for a fighter, etc. [alien]
Evergreen makes plastic stock in different sizes and lengths. It would be easy to make chocks for small scales using it. For larger scales, I use real wood, cut and sanded to the proper size. As stated above, paint, add rope and weather the chock. They were not all a pretty yellow as maintenence had a tendency to abuse them.
I make them from Evergreen shapes, as Berny suggested. I use a piece of 1/4" 90 degree angle, sand the open side flat, glue a piece of styrene sheet on. For each end, another little piece of sheet and then some wire and thread. They look like this when done:
Just for the record, Scott, that is one nice WW Thud you just showed us. As for chocks, in 1/48, and you are chocking, say, a B-25 that was based on a South Pacific Atoll, might I suggest a kitchen match cut into four pieces and splashed with a dirty wash. Voila! Accurate chocks for the time and place. I was stunned one time to see an F-15C parked on the transient ramp at Ellington Field with a brick in front of the right wheel. And that was all the chocking it got. As far as I know, it didn’t roll away by itself during the night…
Tom
PP Aeroparts used to do a set of those peculiar perforated Soviet chocks.