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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Carrier => Topic started by: roger on September 04, 2012, 01:46:59 PM

Title: flat top
Post by: roger on September 04, 2012, 01:46:59 PM
dose any body have plans for the tower part of the carrier or some nice pictures?
roger y1
Title: Re: flat top
Post by: bill bischoff on September 04, 2012, 05:24:07 PM
Go to the AMA web site, and look at the Nats News for July 4, 2011 (not 2012). There is a good picture of the AMA's carrier deck island.
Title: Re: flat top
Post by: skyshark58 on September 04, 2012, 06:54:32 PM
How about thick Styrofoam insulation sheets from the hardware store? Thick blocks can be cut with an electric carving knife then glued together with white glue. Paint with Latex house paint and there ya go.
Now where to store it, it's pretty big.  Good luck,send pictures.       Mike
Title: Re: flat top
Post by: Douglas Ames on September 04, 2012, 09:03:41 PM
The Island could be made useable by making the backside a cabinet with shelves to store the arresting cables (ropes) and jugs or stakes. Scoresheets, clipboards and stopwatches could also be stored there too?

Title: Re: flat top
Post by: Randy Bush on September 04, 2012, 09:18:28 PM
Ours is 1/2" ply and hinged.  It stores and trailers flat.  It stays up in a pretty stiff wind.

Randy Bush
Alameda Aer-O-Nuts
Title: Re: flat top
Post by: bill bischoff on September 04, 2012, 09:45:29 PM
My "dream" is to have an island with a digital "scoreboard" to show time and lap count in real time. Bill Lee has a computer driven electronic timing system he built for racing, and says it would be easy to adapt. Maybe some day...

Also, here's a picture of Sig's island.
Title: Re: flat top
Post by: john vlna on September 04, 2012, 09:54:51 PM
Gary Hull built one for the NATS deck out of coroplast, lighter than plywood and tougher than foam.
Title: Re: flat top
Post by: bill bischoff on September 05, 2012, 01:39:46 PM
I liked it. I thought it added to the event. Of course a curved carrier isn't very scale to begin with.
Title: Re: flat top
Post by: dale gleason on September 06, 2012, 10:07:03 AM
Here's the USS Fogarty.
Title: Re: flat top
Post by: PerttiMe on September 06, 2012, 11:48:15 AM
Built out of thick styrofoam, it can get pretty bulky ... and susceptible to all sorts of hangar rash, unless you cover it with something hard.