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Desmoquattro
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New Brunswick, Canada
Member Since: September 10, 2008
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Posted: Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 02:38 PM UTC
Who needs photoetch?
Made from wine bottle foil and wire bent to make the buckles and clasps. Couple of hours work but it wasn't too hard - unless you keep firing the tiny buckles across the room with a wonky set of tweezers, heh. The lap belts are a teeny bit overscale, but I'll be damned if I'm going to redo them. Once they are installed I'll give them a wash to bring out the folds.

These are going into an Eduard FW190 A8 I'm building (Accurate Miniatures release which means no PE included).


KoSprueOne
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Myanmar
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Posted: Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 04:12 PM UTC
These look great already. Very resourceful using household materials. What color are they going to be?





Desmoquattro
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Posted: Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 04:22 AM UTC
The photo ruins the colour, they are leather brown with details in buff (late war colours). I'll tone down the colour with some washes.
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