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Challenge: Find Cheap & easy way to make grenades or is there a detail set I'm missing?

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    February 2003
  • From: Indiana, USA
Challenge: Find Cheap & easy way to make grenades or is there a detail set I'm missing?
Posted by cassibill on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 10:09 AM
I lose little bits constantly, so I'm always working on ways to replace them or mass produce them. What about the tiny 1/35 hand grenades?
Can you buy those? I tried Verlinden, nope. I thought about using sprue to make the cylinder ones(smoke) and trying to cast the regular oval ones. What is every ones My 2 cents [2c]? I lost 2 of each that came with a figure when I moved to college.

cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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Posted by shermanfreak on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 6:09 PM
Send me an e-mail with your address and I'll send a couple of dozen your way .... what kind do you want .... U.S. or German or both.

Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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  • From: Philippines
Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 6:46 PM
Well, well, well. There is a Santa Claus afterall. And true enough, he lives in the north. LOL.

Seriously though. I think it is a very kind thing to do Sherm.

You are the best.

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  • From: Indiana, USA
Posted by cassibill on Thursday, December 4, 2003 2:26 PM
US since it is US in Vietnam.
Thanks one more thing off the list.

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Posted by renarts on Thursday, December 4, 2003 9:44 PM
German potato mashers are simple enough. Different thickeness of sprue..
American pineapples, fimo or sculpey
Modern, sprue and really fine wire for the pins and pull rings.

Mike
Mike "Imagination is the dye that colors our lives" Marcus Aurellius A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 4, 2003 11:11 PM
Hey Santa, how bout sending an unwanted kit my way. I've been a very good boyWink [;)] You've even got the build for it sherm. Whistling [:-^]Oops did I say thatWink [;)] Since this thread has turned into a grenade how-to, I'll add my My 2 cents [2c] For german potato masher grenades, the sprue method works good, but make sure that you have the narrow part for the hand hold. (some companies even forget this) For german egg grenades, basically make the modern grenades except with a round bump on top, pin on the bottom, and a big seam around the middle.
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  • From: Central USA
Posted by qmiester on Friday, December 5, 2003 5:10 PM
Italeri used to have a US Army accessory kit out that contained 1/2 dozen M2 pinapple grenades in it. Don't know if it's still readily available. Tamyia's two accessory kits (US & German) have the appropriate grenades and are currently available.
Quincy
  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Indiana, USA
Posted by cassibill on Monday, December 8, 2003 9:56 AM
I bought a german and a us accessory set but there weren't any. maybe its a different set.?.?

cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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