Anyone know of any high street materials that could be used for 1:35 grill mesh.

Not looking for perfect scale, just an approximation to use on a cheap inaccurate kit.

And cheap because it is a cheap inaccurate kit.

Wondering if there is anything in haberdashery stores that might serve.

Cheers,

Nigel

Try the auto folks as used as mesh by them, at least here.

Model car people is what I should add.

Or maybe window screen mesh.

nigel,
Search for brass mesh on ebay. There is a seller in UK from whom I get my mesh. He has it available in a variety of sizes, and one sheet is enough to last a modeling lifetime.

Thanks for the ideas, I will certainly check out eBay for brass mesh.

In the meantime I went out shopping and came back with two sieves costing less than $2 in total.

One is metal - probably a little overscale but shouldn't matter too much for what I want. Being metal it should take superglue and paint well.

The other is plastic, much finer so more in scale, but I wonder whether it will resist glue and paint.

Cheers,

Nigel

Nigel,
I mis-spoke. The place I get my mesh from is a place called Loco Motive hobbies and they are actually in Alabame.

What you'll need to watch out for with the sieves--and I learned this from my own experience--is that they are most likely stainless steel. That is very tough stuff to cut, and will ruin just about anything you try to cut it with. And being a fairly loose mesh, as hard to cut as it is, it will be very difficult to keep the shape you want. It can be done with care and effort, but probably not going to be easy. Also watch out: those stainless steel wires will go right into your skin like needles.