discussion Replicating railings on a funnel??

[BattleshipBob]

Can somebody help as my brain hurts lol

Bet the rabble thought my questions had stopped, wrong lol

Looking to use copper wire to replicate the railings around a ships funnels to allow crew to perform maintenance? I normally destroy them in my battle to sort out the seams!

I have no idea sorry as to how thick the wire should be! Was also thinking of the possibility of 1/700 railings??

Ta in advance

Bob

 

[boatman]

Can somebody help as my brain hurts lol

Bet the rabble thought my questions had stopped, wrong lol

Looking to use copper wire to replicate the railings around a ships funnels to allow crew to perform maintenance? I normally destroy them in my battle to sort out the seams!

I have no idea sorry as to how thick the wire should be! Was also thinking of the possibility of 1/700 railings??

Ta in advance

Bob

HI BOb my freind now you talkin about 1/700 th scale railin you are lucky to see the ship in this scale let alone the railin why do you torcher yourself on such impossible things now if it was 1 /350th then cotten or thin wire BUT 1/700 THEN WOW AN your brain will hurt in this scale 1/700 indeed
CHRISB

 

[Ian M]

Looking at it if a hand rail had a full size of an inch or so. In 1/700 you would need a wire of ...
0.03638mm

in 1/350 0.07257mm

1/200 ...0.127mm

even in the big boats scale we are still looking thin.
1/35 would need 0.7257
1/72 = 0.3527

I hope your misses has long hair...

 

[BattleshipBob]

Looking at it if a hand rail had a full size of an inch or so. In 1/700 you would need a wire of ...
0.03638mm

in 1/350 0.07257mm

1/200 ...0.127mm

even in the big boats scale we are still looking thin.
1/35 would need 0.7257
1/72 = 0.3527

I hope your misses has long hair...

Thanks Ian sadly no but one moggie has.

It has to be a hand rail not the usual styles of railings. Need to do some research!

 

[Tworrs]

@BattleshipBob the only suggestion I can come up with is some 40gge wire which is about 0.08mm or similar size, this is a very fine wire used by the vaping guys for coil building.
You would have to have a look online as to where in the UK you can source it.
I used SS 26gge or 0.4mm for the handrails on my 1/72 HMS Iron Duke build.
Hope this helps.

 

[BattleshipBob]

Posted on the model warship site and a kind chap gave me a list of hand rail. He explained that different companies called them different names, hence my problems searching!

Nothing in the UK so set on way from the good old US.

Thanks all for the great advice chaps

 

[Tim Marlow]

I would think that the paint film will be thicker than the hand rail at that scale Bob. It’s probably one of those details that needs to be overscale to be noticed….

 

[BattleshipBob]

I would think that the paint film will be thicker than the hand rail at that scale Bob. It’s probably one of those details that needs to be overscale to be noticed….

Morning Tim

Recently got the AK book on building the Revell Bismarck ( no don't have it lol ) picked up some good tips and they used pe rail on the funnel and as Bismarck's funnel was big the rail did make a difference

 

[boatman]

Morning Tim

Recently got the AK book on building the Revell Bismarck ( no don't have it lol ) picked up some good tips and they used pe rail on the funnel and as Bismarck's funnel was big the rail did make a difference

WELL HI Bob my freind well did you use for that railin then ?