Another small update, but I thought I might as well share how I do my flightstands/bases while I'm at it
I'm not a fan of the ubiquitous clear plastic rods sticking out of the ground, straight into the lowest point on the 'flying' model. It has always felt to me as if the model was just standing/balancing on top of said rod and that puts me off.
So a long time ago already, I came up with my own method of making models fly or hover (not actually
). I use a piece of metal rod, bent into a curve, at the nominal back of the base, and either glue it or attach it by magnet to the rear lower half of the model.
That way, the lowest point of the model is free hanging, and the thin wire, when painted in the same colours as my usual basing are quite inconspicuous, especially when looking down onto the table. Also, the curve is more natural looking than the ramrod straight readitional clear flight stands, and I've used it before to sort of suggest a curving or spiraling flightpath, as if it's a contrail or something like that.
And that's what I did here as well. I opted to glue the rods in this time, because I will also have a landed and a crashed saucer. So in those cases where they a saucer is shot down but not destroyed, I'll simply replace the model.
Interestingly enough, I
did magnetize the first Cyberdisk. But that was probably more out of habit than any thought out plan. We'll see how I move forward with that plan.
Anyway; I bulked up the location inside the two saucers that will actually be Flying with some glued in offcuts of thick styrene sheet, since the putty I had placed there initially came off when I drilled the holes. These are welded into place, so will most likely be much sturdier.
Then there's the underside of the bases, where you can see how I've enlarged the contact surface as much as possible by bending the wire to and fro before glueing it in place with superglue and baking soda.
Once that was dry, I also added some putty on top (under? a matter of perspective, really) of the wire and its glued edges, to give some extra strength to the connections. That's drying now, and as soon as it's fully cured, I will get on with the basing.
Basing will mostly be the same as on the infantry bases, but with such an amount of surface, I will probably add some more visually interesting items, like some particularly heroic rock or some mutilated livestock.
Anyone know a good STL of a dead cow?
25 October 2007, 10:20:18 AM