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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Carrier => Topic started by: roger on September 04, 2012, 01:46:59 PM
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dose any body have plans for the tower part of the carrier or some nice pictures?
roger y1
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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.
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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
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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?
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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
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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.
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Gary Hull built one for the NATS deck out of coroplast, lighter than plywood and tougher than foam.
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I liked it. I thought it added to the event. Of course a curved carrier isn't very scale to begin with.
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Here's the USS Fogarty.
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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.