I had a brainstorm the other day. While building the Hasegawa 1/32nd Mustang I realized that the kit exhausts were neither to scale or correct. So, I had to get inventive. The offerings from Moskit are great but too expensive and, as luck would have it, out of stock when I needed them. After much experimentation, I came up with something that is OUTSTANDING!
The answer to my dilemma was Shrink tubing. You know, the rubber tubing they sell at the hardware store to insulate wire? It reacts to heat (applied with a hairdryer). It cuts great, can be shaped and sized to just about any configuration, and costs a few bucks for a package of six. It comes in an assortment of sizes all the way down to 1/4 inch. The quarter inch stuff can be reduced to a very small ID by the application of heat.
Check out the application here in my pic. As I experiment more, the applications of this tubing will cover my armor work as well.
Steve