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How do?

Quick question, but first an explanation.

With Necromunda coming up soon, I'm already planning to have a 'home camp' set up for my gang.

Concept is to use the Manufactorum containers as entrance/exits, and to have walls built out of scrap, ala Fallout and Walking Dead.

Now the basics of that are fairly easy. Make a base, modelling putty, balsa wood/plastic supports, and car body mesh to represent chainlink fencing.

But I wants more. I want corrugated sections to be predominant, block not only gunfire, but prying eyes.

Anyone know where I can get 28mm suitable equivalent that isn't corrugate card! I wants it in plastic, or metal. Possibly resin, depending on what's available.

I do think Plastruct produce something like that if you can find it.

Go to a Polish supermarket, buy a packet of round biscuits, use corrugated cardboard lining.


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Or I could actually read all of your post & provide some useful information, like this:
http://modelshop.co.uk/Shop/Raw-Materials/Non-Specific-Scale/

Hey MDC, you want a corrugated craft roller/crimper. You can probably pick one up in the Tunbridge Wells Hobbycraft.

I think you'll find this webpage very useful; it's a tutorial on doing pretty much what you're describing.

this is the craft roller for corrugating cardboard

should work on aluminum foil, cardboard, and possibly lead foil

not sure if its strong enough for say aluminum cans.



this one seems scookum enough for aluminum cans.

Starbucks - The cardboard cup covers they use are very nice for corrugated steel. It's good quality, perfect for 28mm, and has a flat backing for easier adhesion. You could give it a quick coat in watered down pva glue just to soften up the cardboard texture a bit, but I usually use it as is. They usually just give you a handful of them if you ask.

Not really sure I can be trusted with sharpness cut from tin cans! Interesting gizmos though!

Did a sniff on the internets, and via the usually awful bing, found this stuff.

Going to order a pack, and I'll let you know.


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Whoops! Accidentally ordered two.

Hope it suits!

I make all of mine out of cardboard, usually the type that is used for toys, two layer but thin with corrugation in between. You carefully pull off the top layer, and viola, corrugation. The roof in this picture is cardboard.

inside of cardboard is really the easiest and cheapest - it's also quite sturdy really once painted and varnished. But yeah a crimper for plasticard (not too thick of course) is really easy as well as a DIY.

I'd note, just get one from a scrapbooking store/craft store - like what's used for paper. As long as you're not trying for really really thick sheets, it works fine. And it's cheaper (usually, check pricing). I have one and that's what I use.

https://evergreenscalemodels.com/collections/0401-0mm-opaque-white-polystyrene-corrugated-metal-siding

This is likely the best option, it's what professional modelmakers use. It's made from styrene, which means you can glue it easily, and it doesn't deform like corrugated cardboard will. It's also in scale and with a consistent pattern.

Also worth considering that Evergreen makes a variety of I-beams, tubes, H-columns and strips which are super-useful for a variety of 40k-terrain projects or just to fix or replace details on resin parts which in some way has chipped or are miscast. For example, the tracks on Macharius/Crassus-type FW tanks, often have have damages due to transport, and Evergreen strips are ideal for the purpose of reconstructing these partially damaged track links. The strips are uniform in width (which is super difficult to do evenly by hand), and you can expect to find strips in the same thicknesses FW use on their models. I suspect that when the models were still sculpted conventionally, before CAD-modelling was introduced, they were made using Evergreen plasticard. I've also used their rods to replace the hoses on my Krieg heavy flamer teams, because the resin hoses were impossible to work with and kept breaking.

Also Evergreen sheets of plasticard are useful in a myriad of ways.

Railway-modelling shops usually carry Evergreen, but you can also buy it online and it's consistently cheap.

Plastruct's corrugated material:
https://plastruct.com/product-category/plain-and-patterned-sheet/patterned-sheet/

You want the 1/48th scale stuff. Its a bit cheaper than the Evergreen stuff and since its vacuformed it has detail on BOTH sides unlike the Evergreen which is flat on one side.

T

timd wrote:

Plastruct's corrugated material:
https://plastruct.com/product-category/plain-and-patterned-sheet/patterned-sheet/

You want the 1/48th scale stuff. Its a bit cheaper than the Evergreen stuff and since its vacuformed it has detail on BOTH sides unlike the Evergreen which is flat on one side.

T

I stand corrected. For corrugated metal your source is probably better than mine.

 Zingraff wrote:

timd wrote:

Plastruct's corrugated material:
https://plastruct.com/product-category/plain-and-patterned-sheet/patterned-sheet/

You want the 1/48th scale stuff. Its a bit cheaper than the Evergreen stuff and since its vacuformed it has detail on BOTH sides unlike the Evergreen which is flat on one side.

T

I stand corrected. For corrugated metal your source is probably better than mine.

No problem. I usually prefer Evergreen, but in this particular case I think Plastruct wins out. I did not even know about the Evergreen corrugated plastic until you posted about it and only discovered the Plastruct stuff recently.

T