[DS]Modelling stealth

Hello everybody

I am looking for suggestions on how to model DS minis protected by powerful
stealth devices, so that when you look at the mini it is obvious they are
somehow "cloaked". I want them to look different from just
well-camouflaged
vehicles.

Any thoughts? (Other than empty bases)

Greetings

why not use those small, medium and large plastic easter egg halves? paint
them a camo color, place them over the DS II unit, and move them about.

or paint the egg halves, assign an ID number, and use them to move about,
revealing the actual DS II when the stealth mode was dropped?

DAWGIE

> At 09:47 AM 5/31/02 +0200, you wrote:

Damn! There goes my idea....

Well the most interesting way to go would be with the method that Zocchi used
for cloaked SFB ships: cast them in a transparent plastic. This isn't all that
easy to do, though I'd like to some enterprising company out there give it a
try....

Only other option that I can think of isn't all that stealthy in
appearance...but it *is* distninctive, and you can PSB it without any trouble.
There's this very fine glitter that you can buy in craft shops, art supply
stores, and (apparently) those places that women go to get their nails done.
Art Supply stores sell it as "Embossing Poweder"; I don't know what the other
places call it. It comes in several colors; I've seen silver, red, and blue.

But in any case, you can apply a coat of glossy paint and then while it is
still wet apply the powder, so it will stick to whatevet bits you've just
painted. Let it dry, blow the excess away, and then spray with a couple of
coats of something protective. The effect is quite nice, especially if the
glitter is a high contrast with the base color.

PSB-wise, this can be an Eldar-style "holo field" (which is where I saw
the idea first used), or some kind of material designed to distort sesnsor
readings...you know, whatever. Frankly, it looks both cool and distinctive,
and that's what matters.

Yeah, use 'em like "Bogies" from FT... that sounds neat. Or just paint
'em black, like stealth planes from present-day.

--Flak

> On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 09:02, DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote: