Scott Girvan said:
Anyone have suggestions for 'spent shells' in 1/25?
Just doing some quick math.
Mini-gun would be the standard NATO 7.62mmX51mm (.308 to the non military types, or have no idea what I mean)
If you take 7.62mm and divide it by 25 (for 1/25 scale), it comes out to 0.3048mm.
Take a .50cal casing, the bullet is .50cal, or 12.7mm. Most common military scale is 1/35, so 12.7mm divided by 35, and it comes out to 0.3628mm.
Length of the 7.62mm round is 51mm, divide by 25, gives you 2.04mm, and .50cal casing is 99mm long, divide by 35, gives you 2.82mm.
So the width of the round is very close, I mean approx. 6/100ths of a mm, the length would be a hair long, but still only approx. 8/10ths of a mm. So I think you would have no problem using something like this:
Basically turned brass .50cal casings and also some with the bullet in them.
Unfortunately I couldn't find it anymore on any of my supplier's websites.
Live Resin also makes a set, but they would be resin, and thus would need to be painted, which would be a PITA to do seeing as they are so small, least in brass, you could just leave them as is...maybe a dark wash would be all they would need, if that.