Replicating railings on a funnel??

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Can somebody help as my brain hurts lol

Bet the rabble thought my questions had stopped, wrong lol

Looking to use copper wire to replicate the railings around a ships funnels to allow crew to perform maintenance? I normally destroy them in my battle to sort out the seams!

I have no idea sorry as to how thick the wire should be! Was also thinking of the possibility of 1/700 railings??

Ta in advance

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Can somebody help as my brain hurts lol

Bet the rabble thought my questions had stopped, wrong lol

Looking to use copper wire to replicate the railings around a ships funnels to allow crew to perform maintenance? I normally destroy them in my battle to sort out the seams!

I have no idea sorry as to how thick the wire should be! Was also thinking of the possibility of 1/700 railings??

Ta in advance

Bob
HI BOb my freind now you talkin about 1/700 th scale railin you are lucky to see the ship in this scale let alone the railin why do you torcher yourself on such impossible things now if it was 1 /350th then cotten or thin wire BUT 1/700 THEN WOW AN your brain will hurt in this scale 1/700 indeed
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Looking at it if a hand rail had a full size of an inch or so. In 1/700 you would need a wire of ...
0.03638mm

in 1/350
0.07257mm

1/200 ...0.127mm

even in the big boats scale we are still looking thin.
1/35 would need 0.7257
1/72 = 0.3527

I hope your misses has long hair...
 

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Looking at it if a hand rail had a full size of an inch or so. In 1/700 you would need a wire of ...
0.03638mm

in 1/350
0.07257mm

1/200 ...0.127mm

even in the big boats scale we are still looking thin.
1/35 would need 0.7257
1/72 = 0.3527

I hope your misses has long hair...
Thanks Ian sadly no but one moggie has.

It has to be a hand rail not the usual styles of railings. Need to do some research!
 

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@BattleshipBob the only suggestion I can come up with is some 40gge wire which is about 0.08mm or similar size, this is a very fine wire used by the vaping guys for coil building.
You would have to have a look online as to where in the UK you can source it.
I used SS 26gge or 0.4mm for the handrails on my 1/72 HMS Iron Duke build.
Hope this helps.
 
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