Flexable 1:35 MG42 belts for around soliders nesks.

[slupanter]

Flexable 1:35 MG42 belts for around soliders nesks. any ideas or tips on molding or making some. Or if someone got some for sale.

[yak face]

Hi alexander , try using the foil from around the top of a wine bottle (must be the metal type though not plastic) these can be sliced into thin strips and are flexible enough to be moulded to the shape you need. Alternatively yoghurt pot lids are good too, but not as much fun to obtain!!!Some people also use thin strips of masking tape doubled over. Check out the unconventional materials thread in the quick tips section its crammed full of neat ideas , hope this helps. cheers tony

[tr1ckey66]

Hi Alexander

I agree with tony you could use the foil from wine bottles or lead foil (from a model shop) but this will only get you the belt and not the individual bullets. You could stick short lengths of fine wire to the foils strip to simulate them but they won't be tapered. You could use short lengths of stretch sprue - here you would be able to get the bullet points but would be incredibly tedious! Moulding something like this (say in resin) would be virtually impossible due to it's very fragile nature so I'd kind of rule that out. If you want a belt ready made there's a belt in the Dragon's HG division Anzio. Here's my effort of the relevant figure. When you use these belts carefully remove from the sprue and then gently heat it (with a hairdryer) so that you can bend it round the figure then finally glue in place.

Hope this helps and best of luck with it!

Cheers

Paul

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[yak face]

hi alex, OOPS classic error , didnt read the question properly!!! I assumed you meant the webbing strap for the machine gun but after reading pauls post i realised its the bullet belts youre after, I have made a bullet belt for a 1/72 M/G by using a ridged file to emboss the wine foil (ill try and find a pic but it might be hard to see) but at the larger 1/35 scale i dont think it would be convincing , Ill be racking my tiny brain for a solution now though, cheers tony

[slupanter]

Thank guys. first thank you tony anyway thats a great idea for the straps. paul great idea im going to see if i can mass mold the bullets and use lead foil or yog pot lid as the belt.

[yak face]

Hi alex , dont know if this will be much help but anyway, here are pics of the revell 1/76 wespe and eduard 1/72 stormovik. On both these kits i added a bullet feed to the guns using the embossed wine foil method then painted the foil copper colour and then used a black wash to get in the ridges to separate the bullets, in the tiny scales its good enough but like i said in 1/35 it might not work, worth a play around though (always a good excuse to open a bottle of wine too!!) cheers tony

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[slupanter]

I like the pics. I don't drink wine BUT if a start saying to people Here drink this wine the quicker the better, i dont think theyll compain lol. Ive started using yog pot lids

[Guest]

This is where the good old friend 'Lead Wire' comes into play. Short lengths of between .2 to .4 mm lead wire attached to a suitably shaped foil strip would look good with painting, washing and drybrushing. lead wire (available here) is very easy to work with and although not practicle to make pointy ended, with good finishing, it would look OK. There are photo etch belt feeds for mounted machine guns that are pointy, to a degree, but are totally flat but still look good if painted right.

[Guest]

ummm miliput? role it out into a long really thin (the bullet calibre) sausage, it will be like a hair but thicker. then cut it down to the right size, they will look tiny! and just pinch one end to make the bullet head. now you can get your thin bit of foil, about half the size of the bullets and lay it on your work area. then get a dab of CA glue (literaly a pin prick) and glue the bullets down (once the milliput has dried.) witha fraction of a milimeter gap between each round. then it should be flexible, or stick the little "milliput" bullets to the figure around his neck.

might work, i havent tried it but it might work, you never know, unless you've done it and you know it will fail

iain

[slupanter]

I planning to use yog pot lid with sum round platic card, glue it to yog lid and file or slice with a knife. Or the same but with lead strip