low-budget Panzer screening?

[Herr Dr. Professor]

At the local hardware store, I found this screen repair stuff for a few dollars. The 12.7 cm x 17.78 cm (5 in x 7 in) screen is supplied with an adhesive already on it, intended to stick in place for covering a hole in a window screen. The adhesive is activated and set by heat from a hair dryer (a most useful modeling tool itself).

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I created some templates and cut the screening to fit the cooling vents in my Taigen PzKpfW V Panther G. Voila!

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Perhaps this is not so snazzy as ready-made aftermarket etched brass, but it suits my budget just now.

[MrChef]

ohhh Nooo, that's super cool Herr doc! I absolutely love finding regular world stuff that does the job and DIY to fit my tank world.

[MrChef]

Makes me think about the mesh screen schurzen on late war Panzer IV's... H'mmmmm

[Rob59]

I did never buy those ready made grills for any of my tanks.
Always cut them myself out of a cheap kitchen seeve.
Works great, cheap, and as my tanks are no vitrine models, out in the field you hardly can notice the difference.
Everybody can buy stuff, making it yourself that's modelling.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

MrChef: you got me to thinking about a Panzer IV with Schurzen. (see, e.g.: viewtopic.php?t=24785 .) The screen patch might be too flimsy, but Rob59 's idea of kitchen seeve looks promising for some rigidity. I see that Home DePot sells a flat (better than concave) round one for about $22. Then, too, maybe a local hardware store has stiff screening to sell.

[jarndice]

I needed screening for my Abrams and found decently priced brass mesh on E-Bay,
Worth a look before you venture further afield.

[Son of a gun-ner]

One supplier....

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/klockren-s ... BEQAvD_BwE

Also try Amazon in ones respective country

[ColemanCollector]

Nice sourcing HDP! Dollar stores, my local hardware and the kitchen drawers are goldmines!

Mike.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

Yikes! Ikea: four years ago my sweetheart and my sister dragged me around one for hours. Aaaaaaghh!