Can someone plz show/tell me how they make 1/35 scale German , American , British parachute. What I am working on is German para troops in Italy Leros 1943.
Need a chute laying on the ground mostly.
Thx
David

Zvezda has released a German Paratroopers (1939-1942) set that may be worth considering...



H.P.

If you admit 1:32 as 1:35, True Details has some references of 1:32 and 1:48 WW2 parachutes.

The Luftwaffe product numbers are 32511, 32512 and 32513. All three are stand-alone parachutes. Packs only... no silk.

There is always the old standby of tissue soaked in diluted white glue or the newer method of carefully rolling out epoxy putty into thin pieces to be formed later when a little dry.
J

Can vouch for the plastic one from Zvezda, with a bit of cleanup and filling seams....comes out a treat.

If you want to make one with the canopy filled, try a balloon of appropriate size and filled with air, spray with Pam or a teflon non stick spray, and cover with a few layers of water/white glue soaked tissue. Try to get as smooth a surface as possible. Let sit until the tissue has dried and hardened, then burst the balloon and free it from the tissue. You should now have a dome-shape. Scallop-trim the edges for the shroud attachment points. When I was a kid we used to make papier-mache heads for hand puppets by using an old light bulb, then breaking the bulb after to get it out. Same principle. Haven't tried the balloon, but it sounds like it might work!