Scratchbuilt Suicide Perch

[Calb56]

Okay, any idea on sizes of wire for this? I know I can cut the plastistruct to form but wondering about the wire gauge?

Thanks.

Charles 

[Rick L]

That depends on what your modeling with the wire and what scale your building to.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Figure 1/2" U-bolts in reality. Divide by 24 or 25 for 1/24 or 1/25 scale.

I know, math is hard.

Use .5mm wire.   

Edited October 12, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy

[Calb56]

On 10/11/2022 at 5:31 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Figure 1/2" U-bolts in reality. Divide by 24 or 25 for 1/24 or 1/25 scale.

I know, math is hard.

Use .5mm wire.   

Yep, math is hard. Thanks for the "in reality " size. Unfortunately all my hot rodding is only affordable at 1/25 scale.

 

[Straightliner59]

K&S .020" brass rod/wire will get you there, perfectly. Math gets a lot easier when you consider how much of our stock is sized in thousandths of inches. .040"=1" in scale. .005"=.125 or 1/8", in scale, and so on. It's the easiest thing for me to remember, and conversions are easy. I still do larger dimensions in the standard "divide by 25" method, but, for detailing and chassis rail dimensions, etc., this works best, for me.

[Rocking Rodney Rat]

I use bent common pins for the bolts... -RRR