What can I make the 2cm Wirbelwind barrels out of?
I am build the Academy kit and 2 of the barrels are bent. I really don’t want to buy aftermarket barrels for it. This is not a very good kit and I am building it to try some new techiques.
Tricky, I guess you could look for a set of needles to get the barrel part only.
But that is going to involve some work.
If you are not to bothered get the Trumpeter FF, it is based on the Tamiya and the guns are not to scale but you can probably get the kit for $10-15.
As always
Boarder
The barrels will be easy compared to the flared muzzle brakes…
You could use needles or maybe eve paper clips then cut off the muzzle of an mg 42 Im sure that could work
Tankluver: the Academy kit is 1/35 so your suggestion most likely, won’t work.
Iraqiwildman: contact me and I’ll send you some from a worked over but never completed Tamiya Flak vierling kit I have. roy.chow@aya.yale.edu
I meat you could trim the wire to the right size, then use the mg 42 muzzle break as a guide line almost and even add more putty on it to enlargen the break.
Iraqiw…;
Hi!
JUST the challenge I faced last winter when I finally completed my old Tamiya flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind (WIP since 1973…[:#] - those kit barrels had bent and there was not much to do with them. To add insult, I had a few decades back used my Exacto to shave the seams off… so there were these wonderful gouges and flat spots…[:(]
EASY to fix up!
First, I opened up those original flash-hider cones with the exacto to get thin walls and a drilled-out center. I did not bother with trying for the little holes or anything. IF you want all those great details, go on eBay and score one of those Griffon or other Flakvierling barrel sets. This build was to be of an old shelf queen and strictly on the cheap. (ha ha, as it turned out).
Once the muzzles were done, I cut them off right behind the brake, and put them aside. Next, I cut the barrels off the guns right in front of the final nut.
Now… what to use for a barrel? Turns out that those 2cm barrels are about 4 or 4.5cm in diameter. So, I bought some 1/16th-US inch white styrene rod, and gently sanded it down a little, being sure to keep things as round and smooth as possible. I then cut lengths of this for the barrels (measured against the cut-out pieces of original barrel. I glued my cut-off muzzle-brakes onto these rod pieces, and glued the lengths onto the guns! Presto! 10 minutes all-up and pretty nice barrels (of course without those tiny brake ports, etc.)! Paint them satin black and dust lightly to gray them a bit.
PS: Actually, the old girl went and became a pretty nice build- DIY zimm, Dragon magic tracks and sprockets, lots of scratch detailing on the gun, turret, hull, and only just last week I replaced those barrels…
Maybe give it a whirl!
Cheers!
Bob
Yeah…that seems easy 'nuff…[:|]
haha Well its thought heer fieldmarshal
Thanks for all the help, guys. But I have decided to put off this build, because I was getting really frustrated with the bad fit and large amounts of flash.
After watch Scratchmod’s videos and visiting his website, I might make this a burned out wreck. He has a lot of helpfull info on rusting up a tank really well.
Remove the turret and put a flakveirling in place.
The WirbelWind already has a 20mm Flakvierling in the Turret Tankluver.
thats right but maybe get the tamiya one that has all proper parts