Just wondering if anyone has tryed making cigarettes in 1/35 scale.

what would be the best thing to use?

i was thinking of using tiny bits of plastic and painting it white with the end slightly black.
any ideas

regards
karl

hi karl i was considering the same thing a little while back and used the stretch sprue method same as you would to make an aerial and once you,ve stretched and cut to the right size then paint white with a sightly red/black end hope this helps

I've used bits of wire for cigarettes. Clip glue and paint. Use small threads of cotton ball for wisps of smoke.

yer thats the idea




like it ,but they would have to be very small bits of cotton wool

cheers both

i,ve seen the cotton wool thing done on a couple of differant diorama,s and i,ve yet to see it look convincing personally i think it looks better without

I agree...the smoke from the tip of a cigarette will immediately dissipate outside and can't be seen even when you're right next to a person unless they're exhaling it.

would the german ww2 cigarettes have the yellow bit were the filter sits or are they plan white.


how would you stretch spure


matt

I don't think cigarettes were filtered during WWII



Better to see it demonstrated than to hear/read, but here goes.
Take a length of sprue with no attachement points about 4 inches long. (Tamiya plastic works really well, but others are certainly usable.) Hold a cigarette (Bic butane style works great) lighter under it rotating the sprue between your thumb and forefinger or hold it over a candle and rotate it. Keep the plastic about 2-3 inches above the flame. In a moment, you'll see the plastic distort, then soiften and fold over. When it has fallen completely over, extinguilsh the lighter and take you free hand and grasp the end of the sprue. Gently start pulling. Slow will give you a thicker piece; fast a finer one. This will take practice. Too slow and you will just have a distorted sprue; too fast and it will break and curl up.
SUddenly, you'll have an "Ah-Ha! " moment (like when you gained balance on a bike for the first time) You know the pressure, and you can stretch that one little heated portion of plastic as far as your arms can reach.
Once you get the thickness or length you need, allow one end to hang straight down to keep the plastic true as it cools.

I use very short pieces of copper electric wire.Strip some #20 hobby/signal grade and dip into some white paint and you got yourself a Lucky Strike.
cheers!



Chesterfield in TC's left hand.Wedding band painted on with MM Bright Brass.
Cheers

cheers for that AJLAFLECHE

Wanna think "outside the box" to use an oft abused cliche?
Drill through your figure's leg, out the bottom of his foot.
Drill through his torso up through his neck.
Drill up through his head.
Dril through his mouth with a #78 bit.
Insert fiber optic filament through the assmbled figure, paint the cancer stick white, and light it up with an orange LED.

I like it! But with the effort involved, I would probably prefer a vignette with a focal figure to adapt it to...

Karl~ The copper wire works fine; just have the corresponding drill bit size, and for starting reference use a 'cigarette to your own finger' size ratio, and then scale both down to the figs' finger diameter...

:-) :-) I Think Verlinden Sells Cigarettes in 1/35 Scale For 35 $ a Pack. :-) :-)

Sounds about the price of a pack of smokes when I quit..... :-) :-) :-)


Dave

But when you add the state & local taxes they come out to $5.30 a pack :-) :-) :-) :-)