Re: Modeling Honor Harrington Ships.

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.

Enjoy,
Tom Granvold				<thomas.granvold@eng.sun.com>