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Anybody out there have any decent suggestions for how big 1/35 or 1/32 sandbags should be. I'm scratchbuilding them with clay & can't seem to come up with a satisfactory size. Thanks.
 
Well, the real thing is about the size of a large pillow, so, about 2' on the long side, and about 10" on the short side, roughly. Would that be about 3/4" by 5/16"? We should remember, too, as someone pointed out in the Chaffee thread, that the bags would probably not be full, so your dimensions would have to be sort of a maximun.

I would roll out balls of the putty, and flatten them to the rough size, then shape as necessary for their final position on the model or the base. Don't forget the odd bullet hole or two, too.

Prost!
Brad
 
Have a look at how sandbags were made in the How To Section in the thread Building a Sudan Gunboat
 
Russell said:
Have a look at how sandbags were made in the How To Section in the thread Building a Sudan Gunboat
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I would not wish, using foam packing peanuts to make sandbags, on anyone..EVEN THOUGH I DID IT..Michael
 
scgatgbi said:
Anybody out there have any decent suggestions for how big 1/35 or 1/32 sandbags should be. I'm scratchbuilding them with clay & can't seem to come up with a satisfactory size. Thanks.
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Does your wife have a sewing machine? In case she does, and you give her two long strips of rough cloth, and she can sew hundreds of tiny little bags in an hour or two! Believe me, it's easy, cheap, and since you'll fill them with very fine sand, it will look perfect as well!

If you want your sandbag wall a permanent thing, glue the little bags with white glue. I had lots of sandbags made like that when I collected WW2 plastics...
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Cheers...

Uthred
 
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I would not wish, using foam packing peanuts to make sandbags, on anyone..EVEN THOUGH I DID IT
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I know those things can stick to you due to the static electricity. Is that the problem, or is it the joy of handling those small things?

I'm still thinking about your boat. The boat's amazing, the thread was lots of fun. :D
 
Russell said:
Michael wrote ...


I know those things can stick to you due to the static electricity. Is that the problem, or is it the joy of handling those small things?

I'm still thinking about your boat. The boat's amazing, the thread was lots of fun. :D
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The main issue was getting them to stay put, until the wood glue set. It became a slow process. And then there were the times that inferior peanuts got melted by the wood glue. Personally, I thought the new guys bags were OK..We, on the forum sometimes forget that modelers come in all age brackets as well as experience..I would have no problem, with his piece in my collection, but I am a toy soldier guy..Sometime back, I sandbagged a FOV Stuart ,repainted it to look like K/C..I used 1/35 plastic sandbags from some model outfit..Michael
 

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US new guys need all the help we can get, thanks for saying the bags were ok & you'd have no problem with it in your collection. It's a real drawback having nobody down here where I live to bounce stuff off of. You can only get so much info out of a "how to" book. I've only been doing this stuff for half a year or so, and that's in between doing the family thing & the work thing. It's hard only having an hour here or a 1/2 hour there to work on this stuff. That's why I was pleased to discover these threads, it's nice to get so unbiased constructive input & ideas. It's immensely helpfull (if not a little painfull at times, chuckle). Thanks guys
 
Personally, I like the Play-doh idea myself, it helps reinforce the idea that it's a youthful hobby pursued by adults :D

Plus, you can track down the Play-doh Fuzzy Pumper Sandbag Factory and use that.

Prost!
Brad
 
theBaron said:
Personally, I like the Play-doh idea myself, it helps reinforce the idea that it's a youthful hobby pursued by adults :D

Plus, you can track down the Play-doh Fuzzy Pumper Sandbag Factory and use that.

Prost!
Brad
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Brad,
How much time do you spend at Toys R Us ?
 
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Brad,
How much time do you spend at Toys R Us ?
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Well, none, now, since they look with suspicion on an old guy hanging around the toy stores :eek:

Seriously, though, at one time, TRU carried 21st Century's 1/18 aircraft, and I used to check in there every so often.
 
Here is a shot of an FoV M4A3 that has been cross kitted with a 21C M4 and Monogram parts to create an M4 with Calliope rocket launcher. The sandbags on this one are a combination of the plastic pieces from Monogram and extra bags from epoxy putty. In this case the putty I used was two-part plumbers' putty from a home store. It is coarse grain but that works OK for sandbags and such. You can see that I tried to match the smaller size of the kits parts, but also can give an idea about the size of sandbags on Shermans in Europe.

Gary
 

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Thanks for the pic, Gary, those are what I was picturing in my mind's eye. Not a bad accessory, and with some careful painting, they could look pretty good. I loved those Monogram 1/32 tank kits!

Prost!
Brad
 
Thanks for the pics, it's a pretty usefull for scale. I can see how the bags I made look WAY too big in comparison. And they're scaled down from the Tamiya 1/35 sandbags too. Ya live & learn. Thanks
 
Thanks, that's the site I originally got the idea from, but lost the link. Thanks!!! Beats buying the things.
 
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