"Clear plastic disks for 1/300 scale " Topic

I'm looking for a source for clear plastic disks for 1/300 scale helicopter rotors. to display in flight. I've seen them used here on member aircraft but can't find where to buy them.

Thank You

Take a look at scrapbooking supply stores. You can usually find circle punches from 1/8" up to 2" in diameter. Then all you need is some clear plastic sheets from an office supply store.

We can supply clear plastic disks like the one below cut to your specification:

I didn't have any helicopters on-hand when I made this one, but hopefully you get the general idea!

You can contact us via our website hurlbat.co.uk or email us sales [at] hurlbat [dot] co.uk

Hurlbat Games your disk looks a bit thick for 1/300 rotors, how thick is it?

The example above is 1mm thick but we can get the same material in other thicknesses – this was just a quick experiment to see roughly what they would look like :)

OK, I just checked and we can get definately get the same material in 0.50mm and 0.75mm thicknesses. I think that 0.25mm would be too thin.

If there is interest in these then I'll dig out some helicopters in different scales and make some better examples :)

How large can you make these? I'm interested in getting some for my 15mm helicopters.

what would the cost be for your disks?

We can make disks up to about 11" / 28cm in diameter but anything over about 5.5" would be quite wasteful in terms of material.

As a very rough indication of prices I would think something like:

Pack of 3x 6" diameter, 1mm thick @ GBP 6.00
Pack of 4x 5.5" diameter, 1mm thick @ GBP 6.00
Pack of 10x 2" diameter, 0.75mm thick @ GBP 3.00
Pack of 20x 1" diameter, 0.50mm thick @ GBP 3.00

Shipping shouldn't be too expensive as the material is very light and I'm sure that we could come up with a special deal for our fellow TMP members!

We could cut pretty much any combination of overall diameter; diameter of central hole and thickness of material.

I'm sure that the lines for the rotor effect could probably be improved too so we'll have a play around and post some better pictures early next week.

Any feedback on the prices and sizes that would work well for different scales would be really appreciated.

So i assume 0.5mm rigid at 1" diameter? Would these be a ballpark guide for bespoke diameters (suppose that a 1.4 or 1.6 diameter is required for the rotor size-would youjust adjust the number of rotors to make a £3.00 GBP pack? I dont have a specific rotor/model in mind, but given that i have a list of Vietnam and Iran-Iraq war helos on the to do list, i will be getting around to a few different models in due course.

The 2" and 1" ones would be great for 1/300th scale helos – maybe even a 1&1/2" as well.

Not sure it'd be worth cutting the hole as that's quite easy to do, and some models may not have a central spike anyway?

A pack of 10 is a lot of helos, but for £3.00 GBP I'd buy it even if I only needed a couple (which incidentally I do – hence finding this thread on Google!).

Maybe a mixed pack of 10 disks of varying sizes might work better for 1/300th as people may well be replacing rotors for a mix of helos in their army ?

I was about to ask something about this. I don't believe a pack of 10 various discs would serve any purpose due to the fact that, when I finally get around to buying some choppers, knowing my luck I would find none of the discs are the right diameter…
Much better to have some standard size packs and allow for custom orders.

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Here's some pics of the rotors in action !