Stikpusher wrote:Excellent work on the rigging!!! How did you do the rings on that antenna?
Painstakingly!
For that antenna...I started by wraping a coil of fine copper wire around a drill bit, slid the coil off the bit and sliced it with a blade, creating the rings. I made a bracket out of sprue, CAed a length of stretched sprue across the bracket and CAed the rings to that...like so...
Things were going great, I was on the 6th and final line when I fumbled and destroyed the whole thing.....5 hours, down the drain. Words were said, dogs were kicked, babies got face punched and some shots were had!
Attempt #2....I used aluminum tubing to hold the rings. CA the stretched sprue to the tube, well beyond the rings, at each end...then just dab CA to the sprue where it meets a ring...repeat...
After all the spots are glued, cut the ends of the lines, slide it right off, CA the ends together and add another length of stretched sprue to the ends.