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 🙂
Fantastic! Thanks for share...
Interesting , thank you !
Brilliant! I will be trying those techniques, for sure. Thanks for posting this video...it's great.
Great technique but I will always prefer Eduard's seat belts.
Not good enough to do such thing by myself. ?
Grigats videos are wonderful
Wow, that is a very interesting way to make seat belts in 1/72. Sure something to try out.
Fantastic tutorial.
I like scratch-building stuff for my kits and I never had thought using baking paper for my seat belts. Cheers
Excellent learning technique(s)...thanks for sharing.
I will try this.
Cute! Like meditation watching it.
Great How-To. Also works well with foil instead of waxed paper.
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...
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.
That's awesome. Certainly applicable to modern ejection seat equipped aircraft.
Very nice. Thanks for posting.