Painting iridium vehicles

Check the following web page - it has a picture of a small sample of
iridium. The description says that iridium is a white metal with yellow
highlights. The bluish cast seen on the sample may simply be the refraction of
light off it.

http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Ir/key.html

--Binhan

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By the way, are you doing DSII or SGII Slammers?

> On 29-Oct-01 at 17:12, devans@uneb.edu (devans@uneb.edu) wrote:

DSII, I just wish somebody made a blower tank. I've been considering getting a
set of tribarrels off the GZG AV6 Troop Transport VTOL and using them for
customizing a Ganymede Tank (again by GZG), but the cost is prohibitive. $15US
for 2 tanks is steep. Anyone know of any other figs with tribarrels?

1/300 doesn't seem to be something that fits into the
clubs at Eureka.

I really don't want to get into white-metal casting, but
I may have to in order to get what I want.

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DSII,
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Just curious for the paint part of the question. Big vehicles tend to need a
metal paint; for smaller scales, with the right techniques, grey
and/or
white can work well.

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I just wish somebody made a blower tank. I've been considering getting a set
of tribarrels off the GZG AV6 Troop Transport VTOL and using them for
customizing a Ganymede Tank (again by GZG), but the cost is prohibitive. $15US
for 2 tanks is steep. Anyone know of any other figs with tribarrels?

1/300 doesn't seem to be something that fits into the
clubs at Eureka.

I really don't want to get into white-metal casting, but
I may have to in order to get what I want.
***

You can't get by with bashed plastic pieces? Take larger bore barrels and
scribe longitudinal lines to indicate multi-barrels? Haven't tried
either, but worth the effort, I'd think.

> At 08:47 30/10/01 -0500, Roger Books wrote:

If your prepared to wait until Nic at Eureka has cleared the back log of

submissions for the 100 and 300 clubs, you can always ask for a 6mm version of
the large resin hammer's slammers blower tank [provided Jon doesn't mind of
course:)]. Nic has already done the combat car although it's not in

the catologue but can be asked for as a special item.

Nic has always been very receptive to any reasonable request.

There are these little beads that are long and thin, they are about 1/4"

long, tubes and are already a blueish black shiny color...see
http://www.tablegamer.com/gfx/beadly.jpg for a picture, I found them at
WalMart in the 'old lady' aisle. They might work if you put them
three-together, I used them for thrusters on scratchbuild ships before
my wife pointed out that I was better at programming than at sculpting
:P

jim

> devans@uneb.edu wrote:

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On something that small, I'd make the tri-barrels out of plastic rod -
Evergreen brand, either 0.88mm or 1mm diameter. Cut three lengths, each about
3". Glue the first two side by side using a liquid solvent cement (you want it
to flow right along the length of the rod). Once this has set, glue the third
length in the groove of the first two so you have a triangular section. Let
this set properly (perferably overnight) before
cutting to length. Hey presto - tri-barrel guns.

It's much less fiddly to make a long strip of gatling barrels and then cut to
length, rather than attempting to cut short individual barrels
and glue these together. I've successfully made 3- and 6-barrel gatlings
using this technique.

Tony

> Roger Books wrote: