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Hobby shop / model ship building chain can be procy depending on ho wmuch you use...

 

Try going to your local "all in one" store (US folks read: walmart), and go to their jewelry section. The teen girls section that has all the cheap necklaces? yeah.. I got a BUNCH for like 2 bucks there.

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Like everyone says, Hobby Shop that does model trains but even better if they do *Boats*. There's a lot of great bitz that they historic ship modelers have available.

 

My real contribution to the thread: Don't look through the store for them. Hobby Shops are generally an arcane mess. Just ask the clerk first thing. In the shop I found mine they were actually up on a shelf, in a random cardboard box, behind the counter ;) They're usually only a couple of dollars per package with several feet worth of chain. You will be using like 5-10 link segments on Marines and max a few inches on tanks. Buy the size you think you need and then a size bigger and smaller. I find that when I'm at a store I forget how incredibly small Marines are and end up buying conversion bitz too big :P

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Well the problem is that jewelry looks like jewelry. Model chain looks like the sort of good utilitarian straight link chain you'd expect Marines to use. I've seen a lot of nice characters ruined with a twisted link necklace chain holding up a crude skull or icon... it just doesn't work and breaks the scale by bringing a recognizable normal scale object into the scene. If you want the best from your conversions take the time to find proper chain.
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