hey all, i was wondering if anybody knows how to scratchbuild german grenades. if you think about it , it seems like it would be easy, i mean all it its is a circular prism on a stick. compared to makeing a us grenade this should be pretty easy.

so please if anybody has done this or has any ideas, i apppreciate it.

matt

you will need to take into account the different diameters of the wood handle, and the rim at the base of the head. might i suggest you buy some, because they are SO small, and then someone else has doen the hard work! if not, you could slightly stretch sprue to different diameters and make one like that, but it would be flimsy and weak...

thnx colt for reply, i dont know what i am going to do, i am not gloing to go out and buy some, coz they are simply not worth it, maybe i will just give it a miss.

thnx anyway.

matt

hello mattomlin

just a suggestion, but perhaps you could give it a try - matchstick or cocktail stick - use a sharp modelling knife to skin it down to the type of shape & length you need , and you could either A - clip some of those plastic nubs you get on sprues with a sharp knife, and use a little plasticard to make the rim under the top and the screwcap at the bottom, B - make these parts with modelling putty or C - use one of those little red 'caps' you get in toy capgun packs.You could also try using plastic rod and cut it to length. Very fiddly but you could try? I guess the hard part is the sheer small scale of the thing!

kitbasher

hi

bilding from scratch is nice, but to be honest, tamiya has a waponset that only cost me 4 dollar wich included 4 german grenades and other stuff ... so mayby you can keep that in mind...

anyway show us your results !!

with kind regards

dmd

you could make one and then cast a lot of them in resin and then have a lot to spare!

A tiny stick of wood, maybe a matchstick, use sandpaper to shape it, the bit on top from plastic sprue.
That´s how I´d do it if I didn´t have a bunch of them already and couldn´t find some.

ahum I aggree on the tamiya set other than that shouldn't this post be in the scratchbuilders forum?


its like the 3th time I see matt post something in dio forum wich has little to do with making a dio...


or am I being a nitpick now?

zero_cool..................this has alot to do with diorama making beause this is all about my wirblewind dio.

matt

G'day Matt
I would go with scratchbuilding, like the guys said, get a toothpick, carve the "cruver" out of the handle, and use some plastic sprue for the head ( cut that down and to shape a bit too) hope it helps, Cheers
p.s. Zero Cool, what do you mean 3rd time?.........its more like the 30th :-)

P.S.S. Cruver is not german for anything, i missspelt curve, lol