Luckily for us IBG rovided the anti-RPG net as PE parts.
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IBG Rosomak RPG nets
HermannB
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Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 10:42 AM UTC
For those who are interested. I got the latest isssue of Abrams Squad magazine. It contains a brief review of IBG`s Rosomak kit.
Luckily for us IBG rovided the anti-RPG net as PE parts.
Luckily for us IBG rovided the anti-RPG net as PE parts.
WXerock
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Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 11:09 AM UTC
The more I look at those nets it seems that someone in the lace or plastic mesh industry could make those perfectly. I think that they could be made more convincingly than they could be done in metal. It seems someone would be able to figure out how to mold it in some sort of nylon with the 3 dimensional, for want of a better word, fasteners at the intersections. They would also be very flexible which would lend itself well to simulating the droop seen in all photos of the installed nets. Any type of photo etch will be at best too thick to look like scale thickness or too fragile if the photo etch mesh is made fine enough. Just my two cents.
Regards,
Eric
Regards,
Eric
HermannB
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Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 11:15 AM UTC
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The more I look at those nets it seems that someone in the lace or plastic mesh industry could make those perfectly. I think that they could be made more convincingly than they could be done in metal. It seems someone would be able to figure out how to mold it in some sort of nylon with the 3 dimensional, for want of a better word, fasteners at the intersections. They would also be very flexible which would lend itself well to simulating the droop seen in all photos of the installed nets. Any type of photo etch will be at best too thick to look like scale thickness or too fragile if the photo etch mesh is made fine enough. Just my two cents.
Regards,
Eric
Could surely be done, but do you want to pay twice the price of the kit for a super-detailed RPG net?
WXerock
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Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 11:22 AM UTC
The beauty of a plastic mesh is it could be mass produced. Even in small batches it should cost far less than any sort if metal product. At fabric and dress shops mesh can be has in many sizes and shapes for very little money. An enterprising person could probably have something designed and sell it to the rest of us. A square foot of mesh could easily do any MRAP.
Regards,
Eric
Regards,
Eric
Vodnik
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Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 12:40 PM UTC
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The beauty of a plastic mesh is it could be mass produced. Even in small batches it should cost far less than any sort if metal product. At fabric and dress shops mesh can be has in many sizes and shapes for very little money.
The only reason you can buy it for very little money is that it is MASS produced. What in your opinion is the total worldwide demand for this kind of mesh for models? Most likely no more than several square meters. Probably no factory would bother to produce such a small amount, where they normally produce square kilometers of other products each day. And even if you could convince someone to manufacture it, it would be VERY expensive.
LonCray
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Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 06:21 PM UTC
But you wouldn't need a custom product - simply choose an existing pattern being sold to craft shops and purchase a batch of it. It would be cheaper than the box the model comes in (which is, after all, custom printed and folded).
WXerock
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Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 08:23 PM UTC
Lon, the only reason I think a custom product would be required is because of the actual reason the nets work, and that is the fasteners at all of the intersections. No off the shelf mesh would give a representation of that.
Pawel, I guess I was showing my ignorance of ordering a custom product. I was just wishing out load that a suitable material could be found for a reasonable price.
I have to apologize for not reading my earlier post. There is some poor grammar in it that didn´t make much sense when I read it back.
Regards,
Eric
Pawel, I guess I was showing my ignorance of ordering a custom product. I was just wishing out load that a suitable material could be found for a reasonable price.
I have to apologize for not reading my earlier post. There is some poor grammar in it that didn´t make much sense when I read it back.
Regards,
Eric
terminators
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Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 09:40 PM UTC
As the mesh appeared in gold color on 3D pics, I was indeed thinking about photoetch part.
I guess this metal net will be better than the plastic one in the VBCI kit. And little hexagons are present.
I guess this metal net will be better than the plastic one in the VBCI kit. And little hexagons are present.
Hisham
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Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 09:51 PM UTC
terminators
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2016 - 03:19 PM UTC
Can't remember if I have already seen those pics. Thanks for the link.
I'm curious to see the quality of built as I've never built an IBG Models kit.
LonCray
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Posted: Monday, July 04, 2016 - 07:24 PM UTC
I was referring purely to the net; of course the mounting materials, frames, etc. would still need to be cast. I just figured that sort of net would better than anything that could be cast in resin or styrene or photoetched from brass.
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