Plastic mesh panels

[Steve F]

Battefront just released these:



They are supposed to be 15mm "bedspring" additional armour for Soviet tanks in Flames of War, but would serve lots of other uses: leaded windows spring to mind.  US$13 for three of each sprue, though, so not cheap.

http://www.flamesofwar.com/default.aspx?tabid=79&ProductID=6207

Found via TMP at http://theminiaturespage.com/news/?id=1707166293

[Gunbird]

Also nice for making radio towers with, and tracking radars, and sensors, and.... well, they are useful for many other scales too

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Good call, thanks for sharing.

Tony

[Eric the Shed]

They are good...if you are looking for plastic mesh cheap flyswatters are another way to go...

[Mason]

I used to cut up plastic tea strainers for window mesh on my Dark Future cars back in the '80's.
Dunno if you can even buy plastic strainers nowadays....

[Major_Gilbear]

I think these are useful where you need something small and unsupported - as Gunbird suggested, for 6mm scale radar towers and such. Being hard styrene plastic, they are easier to glue as well.

For other modelling though, I probably would stick with aluminium car body mesh or plastic stitching mesh because it's cheaper and can be cut to more sizes.

Still a good find though - thanks for posting!


@ Mason:

You can still get plastic tea strainers.