This got me thinking today, at the somewhat (I’ll be charitable) askance way modelers can look at even the most ordinary things … for me, today, it was drinking straws and costume jewelry.
I got to that point while trying to figure out a way to build one of the radar domes for my CVN-65 Enterprise. The one portside, aft, has the rounded dome on top of a column of the same diameter all the way to the deck. That was the part that was stumping me. Inspiration eventually hit with a (discreet) raid on younger daughter’s costume jewelry hoard, and discovering that one of the sacraficed necklace’s beads fit nicely into the end of a plastic soda straw. A little super glue, some sanding, and viola! I need to get a hobby away from my hobby …
There is something I never actually used… but when I was in college my roommates and I had 4 cats and I would find their whiskers every now and then and I always thought they would make the perfect whip antenna for a jeep or something. So if anyone out there has a cat and builds armor/wheeled models… I am curious to see how it looks. Don’t forget to let them fall out naturally… don’t’ want the PETA folks coming after you.[;)]
Back in the late 80s, the plastic bottles of most fizzy drinks were made of two elements: a base and the bottle proper, which featured a nicely rounded bottom. Those bottoms were absolutely perfect for the high gain antennas of my spacecraft…
