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Armor/AFV: Axis - WWII
Armor and ground forces of the Axis forces during World War II.
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Posted: Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 06:00 AM UTC
What can I use to model rope and what colour would it be? I am thinking of the thicker rope.
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Milano, Italy
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Posted: Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 06:14 AM UTC
For what concerns the rope (if it's a rope and not a towing cable) you can use a... rope! You'll find it in the naval section of your hobby stores they've got a huge selection. Sorry no clue about the color...
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Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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Posted: Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 06:59 AM UTC
If you mean the ropes on German tanks you should use metal color, like the one from Tamiya, X-10 (or was it XF-10??). There was no Rost (I don't know the english word ) on them because they were pasted with some materials, like lipides (I mean Fett).

Hope you can use my help!

Greetings from Germany
daleil
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Posted: Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 08:26 AM UTC
Don't forget that WWII German tow ropes and the like had a LEFT hand twist as opposed to the right hand twist on allied ropes etc........IT DOES make a difference.

HTH
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Posted: Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 09:31 AM UTC
sorry to clarify I meant rope made of twine to hold baggage, and tie stuff down, the thick rope but not tow cable.
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Milano, Italy
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Posted: Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 09:35 AM UTC
So go for the naval section of your hobby shop where you'll find a wide variety of them...
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Posted: Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 04:19 PM UTC

Quoted Text

Don't forget that WWII German tow ropes and the like had a LEFT hand twist as opposed to the right hand twist on allied ropes etc........IT DOES make a difference.

HTH


I have never heard of this before Martin, thaks for pointing it out.

Russ
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