I just had an "apifany"... no its not terminal.

We all have our way of making seat belts, gun slings, belts and straps. From aluminium foil, through lead foil, all the way to bandages (the sticky ones).

I found a new material that works just as aluminum foild-bends and folds like lead foil and has somewhat of a bandage surface-and the material is... tam ta ra ram... Little Cesars dog food lids (Ok, I am not 100% sure if someone may have found that out already).

The lids are medium thick so they replicate nicely thickness of the slings and belts in scale, they cut easily into strips or any shape you would like using scissors (which I had problems using on either aluminium or lead foil-never to mention trying to cut either with an exacto knife-I always mess them up).

For those who do not know what Little Cesars is or have cats for example (I think they have the same packaging on other pet foods as well)-its a small rectangular box (very small portions) pet food with an aluminium lid-take the lid off-wash it (wash the container as well as it is a great pallette or weathering wash holder) and you will have enough belts and straps for a small army.

Hope this helps.

Hey TG, thanks for the tip. A few of us here do have cats and i'm sure one of us(me) will try it. Always looking for new cheep ideas.

I've also been keeping the foil lids from the lunchbox pudding cups...since I got back into modeling, I seem to be considering all types of things for future model use...old watch parts, disposable lighter parts (be careful)...it's quickly becoming an obsession....the cool thing is, my wife will hang on to things to see if I want to keep them for modeling...that's the extent of her support though :-)

I just bought a couple for the dog and told the wife to wash the lids and save for me tomorrow..

this comes just in time as I will be needing some straps for some jerry cans and some gear on my current project.. i'll be glad to see how this works as I have no ready source of lead foil...

Although I have an ample supply of lead foil from wine bottles, I'll have to check with my dog and see what he has to say about donating the lids from his dinners.

Good tip!

Has "Little Cesars" gone to pet-food too?? IIRC Little Cesars was a pizza place?? If that is the case, I can understand why, their pizza didn't cut it to my taste...

Thanks for the tip. However, my wife has reached her thresh hold limit on the things I ask her to wash and save. Any further "washing and saving" has to be done by yours truly. As far as the lead foil from the wine goes, I can never seem to find it on the "Box 'o Wine" I usually buy.

Shaun