Re: Modeling Honor Harrington Ships.
From: Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrath@c...>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 19:07:43 -0500
Subject: Re: Modeling Honor Harrington Ships.
Tom Granvold wrote:
> My thought is to put each spaceship inside a clear plastic sphere,
> which would have the edges of various sidewalls, etc. drawn on the
> sphere. Then shine a laser pointer from the firing ship to the target
> ship. Where the laser lights up the sphere is where the shot hits.
>
> Also, to see if a particular broadside can hit a target just shine
> the laser from the target back to the attacker, then if it the laser
> shines inside the area for a broadside then that broadside is able to
> fire on that target.
My local craft store has 3 inch plastic spheres that
come apart into two halves (they are ment for making
xmas ornaments). Glue the ship's stand inside the sphere
and place the sphere in a sort of cup, so it can be
rotated into various orientations.
The lines you describe could be painted on the sphere.