Thanks Lyle,
I'll stick the brass tube to hold it up at the very tip of the keel. That, the base and the gel wave should work to hold it up in the take off position. The question that roles around in my mind like a dryer, do I put in PE prop blurs, make my own from plastic or go with nothing at all. I've done all three and it seems to me that nothing "looks" better. The other methods just look fake but with nothing, the brain can't make up it's "mind" if there's supposed to be something there or if what you know is supposed to be there is spinning.
Two cases in point.
The Martin where I made the prop blur disk.
And two where I just made the spinner/hubs look like they was turning
I think without the blur looks more real. It plays tricks with the brain and it thinks there's something there, because there's supposed to be
