"1:285th Vehicles With Antennae" Topic

How do you handle antennae on 1:285 or 1:300 or 6mm scale vehicles?

Black nylon paint brush bristles, cut to length.

I wouldn't put them on, myself.
And if somebody else did, I wouldn't handle them.

Could you even see a correctly scaled tank antenna in 1/300th? You'd need something that was less than 0.1mm in thickness in general.

Staff or command vehicles only. Currently using the paint brush method.

I use a small bit of straightened staple – smallest size flat staple metal. Drill hole in vehicle and glue in. A little overscale, but makes the models sporting it easier and quicker to move. Make sure the narrow end is viewed from front and back. These are very strong and so won't break easily.

When I was a kid in the '70s I used my hair. Crazy glue and a swipe of silver paint. Still have those tanks, almost all antennae are still on but a few are bent.

As Raynman and jekinder6, I also use black paint brush bristles, the thinnest I can find.

This post shows some of my British and German command vehicles with antennae. link

Jim

When you buy clothes there are usually labels or tags attached with thin plastic loops. I collect those (my wife passes them to me in practice, I don't buy many clothes myself). They are mostly black or clear, suitable to be painted any colour, and you can cut out sections which are straight, or with varying degrees of curve. I glue them into tiny holes drilled in the vehicles – usually command only, where they act as an indicator of the commander's vehicle.

Invisible mending thread works nicely, its the thinest of nylon fillaments. Very tough, bends rather then kinking or breaking.
L

Or use various thicknesses of monofilament fishing line (even thinner than Mr. Secker's wife's plastic loops).

Stephen M. …have they turned grey yet?

Stephen M. …have they turned grey yet?

Or bald from pulling out your hair for antennae! :-)

I've used toothbrush bristles and light fishing line.

I'm with Raynman.

Thin fishing line