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I am currently completing the armed pinnace, Panart 1/16 scale and required some canon balls. Unlucky for me that my version of the kit did not supply any but at least I had the sizes required, being 4 and 6mm. Naturally a search of E bay was done but none showed up, neither was I finding any from model part suppliers at reasonable cost.
I later my search key words and finally came upon a) glass beads mixed bag covering the sizes wanted OR b) an engineering firm willing to sell small quantities of stainless steel bearings of the sizes. I obtained both for comparison, obviously the steel were best, but ss and very shiney. The beads were nearly round, but black and their holes would need filling.
I tried to blacken the ss balls with blackening chemicals, that failed, but it did slightly etch the surface so they took paint. Using Gesso Primer black, acrylic, I blackened and used them okay. Needless to say I still have a few glass beads 4 - 12mm range, and several ss balls left over for future projects.
The glass beads £3.30 (mixed bag of 200) and the ss balls £9.10 (50 of each size).
Aye, Kimmo
I later my search key words and finally came upon a) glass beads mixed bag covering the sizes wanted OR b) an engineering firm willing to sell small quantities of stainless steel bearings of the sizes. I obtained both for comparison, obviously the steel were best, but ss and very shiney. The beads were nearly round, but black and their holes would need filling.
I tried to blacken the ss balls with blackening chemicals, that failed, but it did slightly etch the surface so they took paint. Using Gesso Primer black, acrylic, I blackened and used them okay. Needless to say I still have a few glass beads 4 - 12mm range, and several ss balls left over for future projects.
The glass beads £3.30 (mixed bag of 200) and the ss balls £9.10 (50 of each size).
Aye, Kimmo
