"In-scale trash bags made easy" Topic

I've reviewed a You-tube tutorial I found, took about 30 minutes of trail and error to get the job done, then made a small change and I'm now producing in scale bags at 1 a minute, it is really that fast!

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Ours standard trashbags turned out too thin for this, but good quality shopping bags and big trash bags are just the right thickness it seems for this.

That's pretty good! I'll have to give that a try.

Rob

"My GF actually kirred and found it to be "so damn cute!"

Kirred?

She made the same sound as our babies, and that's what we call it it Dutch (kirren)….kind of a happy noise :)

The Secret Weapon Miniatures stuff is pretty awesome, I have to say.

For me, though, this strays dangerously close to 'dolls house furniture' – the sort of thing you see when people are making clothes for 1/6th scale figures (Actionman, Dragon etc) and they make stuff out of actual fabric and leather and so forth.

But it does look very good, I will admit.

So the question is:

Having made them, how would you paint and or weather them. Or just weathering? or nothing?

Even sticking plastic bags to anything is going to be problematic, never mind keeping paint on them!

John T

Neat! You could probably get faster results using one of those plastic bag sealers instead of using a lighter.

I saw one recently where someone was using the fingers from rubber gloves, but this is much more economical.

I don't think I will weather them or anything, just use as is. Id I do want a stack of em I'll just use a Styrofoam block and pin em against it with spare dressers needles and/or a bit of expoxy. The stuff I have can stick an eel to a tub of lard. Sort of :)

Bag sealer might be faster but would waste a lot of plastic due to the much thicker seams I think?, I'm making the empty bags now in 30-45 second a piece, got a whole stack of them and am actively hunting for other coloured shopping bags now, luckily we have loads of them in our recycling box (aka the missus never throws anything out)