Re: Modeling Honor Harrington Ships.

Tom Granvold wrote:
> 
> Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:
> > 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.
> 
>    Now all we need is a way to raise and lower the cup to various
heights
> off the table.

	Telescoping antennae or business presentation pointers?