Re: UNSC fleet carrier design

How about this:

1. Weigh small container full of water
2. Dip mini in water by super glueing wire to a point so that only mini
goes in water and can be pulled out easily (this allows water to
overflow). remove mini.
3. Weigh container and remaining water.
4. Difference is water dispalced

Might get a couple of drops clinging to the mini. Anything to coat it
with to prevent this?

Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:

> Tony Christney wrote:
> > Yeah, but the easiest way to figure out the volume of a figure is
> > to determine the volume of water it displaces.
> > This method is much more accurate and simple than measuring all
> > of the mini cubes and cones that make up the mini and then
> > summing them all up.
>
>	  Yes, we thought of that.
>	  However, (keeping in mind that I haven't actually
>	  tried) it seems to me that while this method
>	  will be more accurate, it may not be as simple.
>
>	  It's *hard* to accurately measure tiny amounts
>	  of water.  Especially if one does not have access to
>	  accurate lab equipment.
>
>	  Many of my miniatures are too wide to fit in a narrow
>	  gradated cylinder.  And the wider the cylinder,
>	  the closer spaced the gradations have to be.
>
>	  And have you recently priced pan balances capable
>	  of measuring to the nearest gram?

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