1/350 anchor chain

[dayzofspeed]

Hi guys
anyone know where I might be able to get hold of titanic style anchor chain at 1/350....the one with a bar in the centre of the links
had a quick look online...no joy
and the one in the kit looks naff
cheers

[chrism]

I stopped buying chain from scale model resources as they charge an absolute fortune per metre (something akin to £5 and more) and until you have bought it you have no real idea what it actually looks like, and generally it is brassy in colour, and needs to be blackened anyway

Nowadays I scour charity shops and look at necklaces and the jewellery and regularly come back with another length of chain to put in my "box of bits" and then when I need chain, get everything out and trial what I have on the deck, and eventually I usually find something that to my eye looks good enough and use that, and then proceed to paint what I need whatever appropriate colour is necessary.

[dayzofspeed]

I stopped buying chain from scale model resources as they charge an absolute fortune per metre (something akin to £5 and more) and until you have bought it you have no real idea what it actually looks like, and generally it is brassy in colour, and needs to be blackened anyway

Nowadays I scour charity shops and look at necklaces and the jewellery and regularly come back with another length of chain to put in my "box of bits" and then when I need chain, get everything out and trial what I have on the deck, and eventually I usually find something that to my eye looks good enough and use that, and then proceed to paint what I need whatever appropriate colour is necessary.

I dont mind paying a few quid for the right chain, already spent a fortune on extras for this kit so want it to look right and tbh its very unlikely I'd find a suitable jewellery chain. ive spent ages trying to find a basic chain in charity shops to finish off my hms victory with no luck so far

[iggie]

White Ensign Models do a 1/350 stud link chain in PE brass, reference PE 35157

[JohnRatzenberger]

PE chain tends to be flat and alternating links need to be bent - I might use it on 1/700 ships.

I quit worrying about bars in the links, although I have seen them.

I do not look for scale chain but for the smallest LPI (links per inch) brass chain and have found 42 LPI and 30 LPI to be very useful. I do not go by scale but by size of the ship - after all 1/350 chain for a battleship is going to be much bigger than 1/350 chain for a Flower corvette.

My source for chain is Model Expo, here in the US.

[dayzofspeed]

thanks guys. I'm at very early stage in the build so plenty of time to shop around

[dayzofspeed]

my lad got a resin 3d printer for christmas off his gf so after scouring something called 'thingiverse' where he can download the files for printing stuff I found a stud link chain and he will print it off for me in resin as far as I'm aware he can change the scale of these files so I've asked for 13 links to the inch...hopefully that will look about right because the only other stud link chain I found was in 14 carat gold.

[dayzofspeed]

apologies for the pic quality but here's a small sample of the chain i have placed in situ. think size is just about right. not bad for a guess