How-to: Safety belts for aircraft from scratch
A nifty video tutorial by Tom Grigat on making detailed seat belts (in 1/72 scale!). All you need is 0.1mm electrical wire, baking paper for the belts and a few tools, including a home-made buckle bender 🙂
Eduardo Augusto Rodrigues Conci said on October 3, 2018
Fantastic!!! Thanks for share…
Christian WERY said on October 3, 2018
Interesting , thank you !
Marvin Reyes said on October 3, 2018
Brilliant! I will be trying those techniques, for sure. Thanks for posting this video…it’s great.
Bogdan Ionete said on October 3, 2018
Great technique but I will always prefer Eduard’s seat belts.
Not good enough to do such thing by myself. 😁
bob mack said on October 3, 2018
Grigats videos are wonderful
Ferry Dierckxsens said on October 3, 2018
Wow, that is a very interesting way to make seat belts in 1/72. Sure something to try out.
Paulo Castro said on October 3, 2018
Fantastic tutorial.
I like scratch-building stuff for my kits and I never had thought using baking paper for my seat belts. Cheers
Craig Abrahamson said on October 3, 2018
Excellent learning technique(s)….thanks for sharing.
Mon Falcone said on October 3, 2018
I will try this.
Stellan Schroeder Englund said on October 3, 2018
Cute! Like meditation watching it.
Rob Pollock said on October 4, 2018
Great How-To. Also works well with foil instead of waxed paper.
david leigh-smith said on October 4, 2018
True, Rob. The only problem being on has to buy (and unfortunately consume) lots of high end wine to get the right foil. The lot of being a modeler…
Jim Crabb said on October 4, 2018
I used a very similar technique years ago, but I’d flatten some of the buckles a little bit by rolling an Exacto handle over them. Worked pretty well and if you used soft silver wire, you didn’t have to paint them. I also used paper from a brown lunch bag. I worked in 1/72 as well.
Michael Drover said on October 4, 2018
That’s awesome. Certainly applicable to modern ejection seat equipped aircraft.
Gary Wiley said on October 4, 2018
Very nice. Thanks for posting.