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Posted by T_Terrific
on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:14 AM
To try to intellegently answer you questions:
- Since the average seat-belt is about 1-1/2 to 2" wide, 1/48 scale would make them about 0.8 to 1mm, 1/72 would make them about 0.5 to 0.7mm. I think this is why the average modeler, like myself, says "That looks about right" and quits while he is ahead.
- The question about painting them before or after can depend on how the paint affects the material you are painting (whether it is enamel or acrylic), whether you make them out of paper, sheet styrene, metal, etc., and also how bending the belts to fit affects thr paint, which can crack, peel, chip, etc.
I would figure by the time you got through touching them up after fitting them, you might just as well wait to paint them until after you have fitted them. I mean this is not like painting an ammo belt, where you can have as many as three colors for the belt in question, when you include the brass cases.
As far as paint on the seat, it should be simple enough to touch-up with a small brush.
At least that would be my perspective.
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