After a couple of glasses of rum I was looking online at the waste tanks on the Dinky eagle and thought .... Hmmm .... What about possible DIY substitutes.
These are excellent repros available on eBay, which could prove expensive if you needed all four.
But they do remind me of cotton reels!
Like these plastic ones....
They even have a sort of radiation pattern on top!
Or maybe party poppers? Most certainly too big.
Any ideas?
And what about those exhaust bells?
There's a few possible DIY replacements.
Maybe tyre valve stops?
Not that good.
What would you choose if you had to?
I know, a decent complete Eagle!
Ha ha!
What I have long wanted to do is to cut away the outer rim of those plastic thread tubes/bobbins.
ReplyDeleteThe inner tube has fins that can be trimmed into arrowheads.
Sewing feet would make for good landing skids.
Pilot pen inserts look like ray guns
Interesting stuff.
DeletePerfect exercises for my new FDM 3D printer! On the fine mode, it's approaching the quality of my resin machines. And it prints in coloured plastics! If you can send me some good reference shots of the pieces and exact dimensions, I may be able to work some magic!
ReplyDeleteWatch this space (1999)!