Photo etched stainless steel buckles

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cappy
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Photo etched stainless steel buckles

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Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. I figured it is for a project I'm trying to finish so...... Looking for a variety of different sized buckles,
ranging from 1.5 mm to 3 mm dia square. Is there something like that floating around? Every where I look they are grouped in with a variety of different parts. I don't mind buying the extra parts, if I can get what I need out of the frets, just unsure as to what scale I should look at to get the sizes I need. The style type is square, with a single line in the center.

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I am primarily an airplane modeler, so I look at photoetch sets all the time, and I don't know of anything that just has buckles. However, lots of airplane modelers make their own all the time, out of fine wire [very common technique]. There are also lots of tutorials for making seat belts out of masking tape, and I've seen at least one where the builder does the belt buckles too and it looks fine. You wouldn't have to worry about extras or getting the scale perfect!

Here is one tutorial, where the builder gets just a little fancy, but it's all tape:

http://www.hyperscale.com/2007/features ... tsrf_1.htm

Here's an example using wire:

http://www.swannysmodels.com/yabb2/YaBB ... 1267975687
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I'd check 1/8, 1/12 or 1/24 scale model car racing seat belt kits. Might find what you need there.
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1/48 and 1/32 WW2 photoetch aircraft sets. The older Eduard sets, particularly.
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