Re: Painting iridium vehicles

On something that small, I'd make the tri-barrels out of plastic rod -
Evergreen brand, either 0.88mm or 1mm diameter. Cut three lengths, each
about 3". Glue the first two side by side using a liquid solvent cement
(you want it to flow right along the length of the rod). Once this has
set, glue the third length in the groove of the first two so you have a
triangular section. Let this set properly (perferably overnight) before
cutting to length. Hey presto - tri-barrel guns.

It's much less fiddly to make a long strip of gatling barrels and then
cut to length, rather than attempting to cut short individual barrels
and glue these together. I've successfully made 3- and 6-barrel gatlings
using this technique.

Tony

Roger Books wrote:
> 
> On 29-Oct-01 at 17:12, devans@uneb.edu (devans@uneb.edu) wrote:
> >
> > By the way, are you doing DSII or SGII Slammers?
> >
> > The_Beast
> >
> 
> DSII, I just wish somebody made a blower tank.  I've
> been considering getting a set of tribarrels off the GZG
> AV6 Troop Transport VTOL and using them for customizing
> a Ganymede Tank (again by GZG), but the cost is prohibitive.
> $15US for 2 tanks is steep.  Anyone know of any other
> figs with tribarrels?
> 
> 1/300 doesn't seem to be something that fits into the
> clubs at Eureka.
> 
> I really don't want to get into white-metal casting, but
> I may have to in order to get what I want.
> 
> Roger Books

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