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Offline GlennCauley

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Rigging insulators for 1:72 U-boat
« on: 18 Nov , 2008, 12:05 »
Would someone PLEASE create some resin rigging insulators for the 1:72 U-boat?   
You know the ones I mean... they are the roughly football-shaped things with the 4 longitudinal grooves.

There are LOTS of good pictures of them in any U-boat reference book (like warship pictorial).

Please please PUHLEEEEEZZZ...

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Re: Rigging insulators for 1:72 U-boat
« Reply #1 on: 18 Nov , 2008, 13:45 »
I know what you mean by that Glenn. I was going to make my own from styrene profile. Some challenge, but not impossible. ;)
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Re: Rigging insulators for 1:72 U-boat
« Reply #2 on: 18 Nov , 2008, 18:46 »
I cut apart the kit pieces... they come molded in 3 insulators... and then shaped them.  I then wired them together.  Looks better than stock parts, but there's still room for improvement.
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Re: Rigging insulators for 1:72 U-boat
« Reply #3 on: 18 Nov , 2008, 23:39 »
I ended up making my own, just little blobs really, but they work. I think they are pretty tiny for production. The kit had too much flash and misalignment, and they were injection molded! (Too tiny for AMP anyway...)
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