Crossing Scales For Extra Detail

[oldcarfan]

I guess this counts as a tip! When I go to a hobby shop I check out the 1/35th stuff for military upgrade sets like this. Tamiya makes several different sets for different countries and time periods and they are pretty cheap.

I like to put extra details in my cars or trucks and these little kits give you some good options. The gas cans work well as smaller water cans in the back of your Jeep or SUV, and the ammo cans look good stacked in the back of a truck. My favorite though are the backpacks. Since civilian backpacks come in all sizes, a full-size 1/35 one works just as well tossed into the seat of a 1/24th car or truck. Just paint it a bright color and you're ready to go. I even used a pair of the binoculars as the small ones people use to watch baseball games. 

Anyway, it's worth a try to add a little extra detail.

[Dragline]

I found some used PE sheets for armor in a box of parts I bought. I used the various pieces for brackets and throttle. In fact, I used an entire sheet on my 66 Chevelle for various thin brackets and even pedals. Your imagination is the only bar to what you can make of these kinds of things. 1/35 can work in may instances as you clearly showed.

[Mattblack]

I've done the same with model railway barrels and crates.

[TarheelRick]

Some pretty nice pieces, but you can toss those MRE's in the garbage.

[stavanzer]

I toss all MREs in the Garbage!

I've eaten enough of them to know.....

[Big Messer]

I carry a caliper suitable for my scale to check whatever I think may be usable, scale in the label totally ignored. Found great scale chain in the fake jewelry aisle at hobby lobby.

[Straightliner59]

I have forever used different scales of model railroad parts. HO handrail stanchions, especially. I use them for tie rod ends, etc. There are some n almost every model I build. Phil Jensen used Kemtron O scale glad hands, on his model trucks. I still have some floating around the shop, somewhere that I bought in 1975, I think, in a hobby shop in downtown Pittsburgh.

[sidcharles]

scale And genre. don't be afraid to investigate how the other guys do it.

[oldcarfan]

I also buy Gundam decal sheets for some fine detail. Many of the sheets have tiny Warning markings that you can put in various places to add eye interest. They have many different sheets some with numbers and some in different colors. Some of the insignias look pretty cool as door art on pickup trucks, too.

The Toyota Hiace I just finished has two Tamiya of the 1/35 US Army ALICE packs that I painted bright colors. In 1/24 scale they are about the size of a school book bag. The rolled tarps and bundles work well on offroad trucks.