Re: Mounting fighters

At 05:30 PM 9/10/97 GMT, Bob Blanchett wrote:
>>
>>You may think this crazy, but darn it looks good!  I used a vice pin
drill
>>to drill a small hole in the back of each fighter (where the engine
would
>>be).	Then I formed a stand of wire and glued the whole thing to a
>>plasticard base.
>>
>>The wire inserted into each fighter was then painted a graduated
orange to
>>yellow exhaust.  
>
>Sir, you are a genius! this is one of the most elegnt ideas I've seen
on this
>list!
>
>Bravo!
>--
>Bob Blanchett
>bobblanchett@iname.com
>----------------------
>

Wow!  Thanks for the compliment.  Here's another tip y'all might be
interested in:

I ended up using different lengths sticking out of the back of the
fighter
so that I could get different echelon formations.

Like this (if it comes out right after mailing): 

	F    
	|	F	
	|	|	F
	|	|	|
	|	|	|		
	+	+	+

OR

			F
		F	|
	F	|	|
	|	|	|
	+	+	+

OR 

		F	
	F	|	F
	|	|	|	
	+	+	+

Where the + sign is where I bent the wires down.  Then I painted them
white, then red, then the yellow; and finally painted the excess wire
black
to tidy up the flames and make them a uniform length.

First time I've tried ASCII art -- If it doesn't look like anything then
I
guess it didn't work!

Nick Caldwell
clcaldwell@primary.net