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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/19 21:14:47
Subject: Wave Serpent base
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Horrific Howling Banshee
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What are your solutions for the wibbling Wave Serpent?
I mean the place where the plastic rod is put in the skimmer.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/19 22:19:37
Subject: Re:Wave Serpent base
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Guarding Guardian
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I've been replacing my flying stands' pegs with a brassrod and inserting a piece of brass tube into the hole in the bottom of the hull. I take a piece of brass tube, cut two lengths, one that is about 1 1/4" and one about 1/4", then glue the 1/4" piece into the hole, and glue the other to the flying stand. I then take a 1/2" piece of brass rod that just fits inside the tubes and glue it halfway out of the tube glued to the flying stand. Once the glue dries, you can place the hull onto the flying stand with the brassrod fitting into the tube glued into the hull.
The drawback I've found is that you have to pick up the flying stand by the peg along with the hull, or it drops out. I'm looking into rare earth magnets to hold them together. I looked into just the magnets for this, but unless you use really big magnets, the model isn't balanced enough and falls over too easily.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/20 00:28:09
Subject: Wave Serpent base
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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ENLARGE the mounting hole to 3mm (standard 3mm or 1/8" drill bit.)
The post now sits about 5mm further inside and the mass of the model isn't supported by 1 cubic mm of brittle plastic.
No wobble, it's not enough of a height difference that many people would notice.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/20 00:48:49
Subject: Re:Wave Serpent base
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Infiltrating Oniwaban
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The Imperial Navy, A Galatic Force for Good. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/20 03:27:49
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Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot
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My old falcon only had one flying base, and it always tilted over and broke, so I glued a second flying base to the bottom. No problems since.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/20 06:00:31
Subject: Wave Serpent base
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I've seen people use 3 inch threaded bolts wit hex nuts. Hex nut gets glued to bottom of the model, threaded bolt gets its head cut off, and put through the clear base( or Any base) and then you spin the mod onto the screw when it's playtime
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