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Can anyone tell me where I can get some vehicle tie downs for Tamiya's Dragon Wagon semi-trailor?

I don't need a full PE detail set, I just need some tie downs for the semi-trailor, so that I can secure the burnt-out Sherman load which will eventually be put on it.....

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Mate, make your own from thin wire or this brass wire. Several options.

1 - buy a grab-handle forming template (it looks like a flat Xmas tree), bend thin wire over it, and there is your handle. Repeat 20, 40, 50 times - whatever floats your boat. Secure with superglue so that it is perpendicular to the surface.

2 - drill two small/tiny (but DEEP) holes, insert the thin wire (over the top of a piece of plastic strip - it forms the bends), and secure the ends with superglue. Bend (as required) to make them perpendicular to the surface.

Hint - if one leg is LONGER that the other (by only a little) it is EASY to position the long side, then to insert the other leg. Insert a stand-off spacer (that does NOT touch the legs) then dot-on the superglue. Make the spacer from a piece of scrap strip or card. It'll ensure that the bar of the tie-down (or grab-handle or step or ladder rung) is parallel to the surface.

Hint - I get them all the same size by using a pair of standard screw-adjusting geometry dividers to mark where the ends of the tie-downs will go. Have the needles VERY short so that there is virtually NO PLAY in the needles. Push the needles into the plastic (to form divots), then drill the sockets (for the wire) with a small drill-bit.

I avoid PE ones (they cost, and they are fragile) and the kit ones are usually way too thick.

Good luck. George, out.....................

Edited by The Loggie
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Same as above as a template for hole spacing a piece of plasticard with two holes and a scriber to mark the positions. I punch out little discs to place at the legs where they are welded on.

I did some on my 1/16 Pershing easier in that scale I admit.

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