Re: [GZG] Re: Re: Model Planets and figs

Andreas wrote on 08/19/2005 08:20:31 PM:

> >Don't those usually have metal clamps at the overlaps?
> Sounds like a road
> >trip to Hobby Lobby! Hmm... mounting on bases should be
> interesting...
>
> Yes and no.  There's actually two rings in a cross-stitch
> hoop -- a "broken" outer ring with a screw assembly and a
> solid inner ring, which the outer ring tightens down onto.
> I picked up a 3" one and a 6" one at Michaels for $1.19
> each.  I'll save the "broken" rings for some other project.

Ah, I'd forgotten; I've a few downstairs picked up in a cut-out bin for
a
project I can't even remember. Funny me just remembering those. Thanks
for
justifying my pack-rat ways! Hope they aren't the oval kind.

> The rings I got are wood, but they make plastic ones as
> well -- including some really big ones (12" or 18").

Well, do you think you'll paint the interior surface with continents?
Stunning! ;->=

> As far as being the size of Detroit or whatever... I don't
> know anything about that.  I figure it's just a placeholder anyway.

Absolutely! It was the conversation had gone off on a tangent about
scale,
and I was pulling it back a bit to... Reality just isn't the right word,
is
it?

You can run how you wish, including having the ring playing Ringworld,
and
a small lamp or sparkling crystal in the center, the star. ;->=

> Andreas

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