(FT) Miniature ideas (Space Stations, planets and missile pac ks)

Actually, for the planet, chop the styrofoam ball in half and line the bottom
with cardboard or manila folder. Coat the top surfaces with spackling paste,
smooth and sand if preferred (i.e. a gas planet wouldn't have much vertical
terrain) otherwise take advantage of the ridges to paint up mountains or
glaciers.

Space stations can be almost any shape. Depending on your scale you can use 1)
a 20 oz soda bottle with some fins added for a B5 type station, 2) a cluster
of paper tubes with little platforms sticking out at various levels, 3) A
stack of CD's with spacers between the cd's and a round hub on each
side (to represent a multi-level residential station in the Jetson's
style) or 4) various plastic pieces such as a funnel, a bowl, some tubing to
create a Star Trek Space Dock.

--Binhan

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> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Binhan Lin wrote:

> Actually, for the planet, chop the styrofoam ball in half and line the

This is how I did my planets up - one 6" ball from the local craft store
cut in half & coated with plaster. I painted one up as 'Mars' and the other as
'Earth', and they look pretty good.

See <http://warbard.iwarp.com/ftgallery.html> for a pic of each, plus my
Phalons.

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
- http://warbard.iwarp.com/games.html -

> Space stations can be almost any shape. Depending on your scale you
a
> cluster of paper tubes with little platforms sticking out at various
 My
> idea for the planet is one of those styrofoam balls that you can get
Once, I
> get a good idea what it should look like, I can start making it.