I've been wondering: How do you make cigarettes for 1:35 soldiers? I ask because at Hobbytown, I remember seeing some 1:35 guys with cigarettes in their hands. Thanks for your time.

Sprue?

my guess is stretched sprue, probably pretty easy too. the hard part is what color to paint the embers.



but with the new smoke away, your soldiers can quit the habbit!

Packs or individual? Individually you might try to use saw dust. If the saw dust is not to fine it might be a perfect cig.

Well... you could roll your own. #:-) out of epoxy, but I'd go with the stretched sprue.

A piece of stretched sprue painted white and stuck in place. The end can be painted red and then painted over with grey just allowing a tiny bit of red to show, this simulates the ash at the end of the ciggy.

Another option is to go with metal wire or styrene strip cut to the right length. The advantage of the styrene, epoxy, and stretched sprue would be the ability to texture the burnt end.

ive used wire to recreate cigarettes, and it works pretty well,

i went for wire because streched sprue looked over scale,
just paint most of it white, and add a slight hint of dark grey at the end.

cheers

joe

I'd go the wire route, easier to control the diameter.

Another technique is to use a small piece of cigarette paper, roll it between your fingers to a tight cylinder, then burn the end a bit. You may have to experiment to get the right amount of paper for the right diameter.

In 1/35th scale, no one's gonna see any ember unless it's night and someone is drawing on the smoke.

I woul also use thin solder or brass rod

Sprue or copper/brass wire for single cigarettes, plasticard or paper for the packs...
Ciao

I'm in the stretched sprue school. Painted white with a gray end. Filters fo rmodern and Vietnam era figures should be a dark tan color and there weren't filters in the 40's. A cigar could be done with a thicker piece of sprue and painted dark brown with gray ash. I'd forgo trying to show the embers. Even in real life, you can barely see that at any distance in any but the darkest situations.

For those of you who think I am nuts to suggest cigarete papers -- they (pieces of them) make great pages in 1/35th, as well as loose papers in a diorama. You don't have to smoke to use the papers!

Every time i ve used cigarettes on dio's were made from copper fine wire painted white and a lil dark grey on the end and it was fine .