"Cheap Flying Disk / Saucer" Topic
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| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 13 Jan 2018 12:50 p.m. PST |
Ages back I started on project to put together a scrolling shooter-type game set up. Anyway it stalled after awhile, partly because I was needing lots of drone fighters, but it wasn't until recently I had the bright idea of clipping the tops off two drinks bottle caps and gluing them together with Milliput!
The result, mounted on a 30mm square card base using a pin, is pictured with a necron and a GZG 15mm Out Rim Coalition trooper for scale. The disk is probably good for a 6mm saucer, bit big for a 15mm Tau-style drone, and needs some dressing up and gribbly bits to look the part for 28mm. Initially I started out with 6, but found you need to be careful matching the halves as the tops vary by small amounts so the raised bits didn't always match up. |
 Zeelow  | 13 Jan 2018 4:32 p.m. PST |
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| Covert Walrus | 14 Jan 2018 3:57 p.m. PST |
Indeed, an excellent mini even without added "gubbins"! Well done!  Too bad there's no caps like that in my country . . . Though we have some interesting shaped ones. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 15 Jan 2018 2:36 a.m. PST |
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| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 20 Jan 2018 10:30 a.m. PST |
Rough paint job on the first one and it looks okay. I've also experimented with a landed version and built a couple more.
The landing legs are made from trimming another of the caps. |
| Legion 4 | 20 Jan 2018 4:43 p.m. PST |
Nice ! Really thinking out of the box ! |
hyena123  | 09 Feb 2018 5:57 a.m. PST |
Didn't Scotia do flying disc/ Ufo models ? |
| Legion 4 | 10 Feb 2018 9:15 a.m. PST |
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