[GZG] Re: Re: Model Planets and figs

> Don't those usually have metal clamps at the overlaps? Sounds like a

Yes and no.  There's actually two rings in a cross-stitch hoop -- a
"broken" outer ring with a screw assembly and a solid inner ring, which the
outer ring tightens down onto. I picked up a 3" one and a 6" one at Michaels
for $1.19 each. I'll save the "broken" rings for some other project.

The rings I got are wood, but they make plastic ones as well --
including some really big ones (12" or 18").

As far as being the size of Detroit or whatever... I don't know anything about
that. I figure it's just a placeholder anyway.

Andreas wrote on 08/19/2005 08:20:31 PM:

> >Don't those usually have metal clamps at the overlaps?

Ah, I'd forgotten; I've a few downstairs picked up in a cut-out bin for
a project I can't even remember. Funny me just remembering those. Thanks for
justifying my pack-rat ways! Hope they aren't the oval kind.

> The rings I got are wood, but they make plastic ones as

Well, do you think you'll paint the interior surface with continents?
Stunning! ;->=

> As far as being the size of Detroit or whatever... I don't

Absolutely! It was the conversation had gone off on a tangent about scale, and
I was pulling it back a bit to... Reality just isn't the right word, is it?

You can run how you wish, including having the ring playing Ringworld, and
a small lamp or sparkling crystal in the center, the star. ;->=

> Andreas