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Re: Ghurka's uploaded

From: "Noel Weer" <noel.weer@v...>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:41:38 -0500
Subject: Re: Ghurka's uploaded

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Francis" <tony.francis@kuju.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: Ghurka's uploaded

> Ryan Gill wrote:
> >
> > At 9:51 AM +0200 6/14/01, Derk Groeneveld wrote:
> > >
> > >As for the comms specialist, I enjoyed painting that figure. The
cats
have
> > >to take some credit, though, as they supplied one discared whisker,
free
> > >of charge, for the antenna.
> >
> > Heh. You should build a Com/ECM truck and see what they say....I'm
> > using a $4 paint brush (.25" x 4") for its bristles for whip
antennas
> > and for grass..
>
> My 20mm WWII tanks have aerials made from thin brass wire - it
certainly
> stops people leaning on the table (puncture wounds are the result).
>
> I also once saw some modern 1/300th armour with aerials made from
think
> fishing line - this was pretty much indestructable. Not sure how well
it
> would work for longer aerials, but it should serve for 15 / 25mm
> figures.
>
> Tony

That is a suggestion I had not heard before. Pretty good. Fairly
flexible I
would wager, too, in case of accidental pressure (droppage, etc.).

Just out of curiosity, I have thought about adding antenna in the past
but
wasn't sure whether to do it to all of figs in a unit or just the
"command".


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