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Re: Building a moon-display for your space models
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Date: 
Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:15:59 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Tobias Möller writes:
I just got this idea that I´ll try soon.
By using papier-mache, some glue and sand, you could build a planet plate to
play and display your space models on. This would be especially cool with
classic space. You form the landscape, spread glue on it, sprinkle over sand
and let it dry. Then paint with a sand-like color, not glossy.

I´ll try this and then take pics of my space models to put up on my website.

--Tobias


Greetings, Tobias...

You might also think about -embedding- smaller plates here and there
(inside craters or rills, for example) to enable you to achieve a
more solid footing for your models.  I've thought about this myself,
both for space theme as well as for castle theme, but have yet to
try it out.  I guess we'll see which of us gets to it first, eh?  <grin>

By the way...what sort of paint have you found to work best (i.e., adheres
best and looks correct) for use on ABS?

Cheers,

Roger



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  Re: Building a moon-display for your space models
 
Embedding plates, that´s a good idea. For bases etc, I thoguht that I´d build the model on it´s own baseplate, then just put it on the display, like it´s done in the catalogues. I don´t know if it really is necessary to embed plates, if you can make (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)

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  Building a moon-display for your space models
 
I just got this idea that I´ll try soon. By using papier-mache, some glue and sand, you could build a planet plate to play and display your space models on. This would be especially cool with classic space. You form the landscape, spread glue on it, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)

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