A follow-up to the last post…
I mentioned I had a few upgrades in mind, and a couple of ideas on how to do things differently. Decided to go ahead and do them, so here we are.
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| what a horrifying lineup |
Unstrung the boys and molded some new center joints for the ladies. Pared and sanded all the clay balls down (quite a bit, actually), and then coated the outsides with Loctite vinyl glue. That worked out exactly like I’d thought it would, actually. The glue dries extremely fast – I mean, in seconds – so I just put some on a cotton swab and swabbed away. It does help to protect the Model Magic and it does add a little rubbery texture to it that helps give the joint some tooth, so there’s one success.
The guys got restrung with elastic cord this time, which made them a lot less floppy due to the better tension in the elastic. They look better as well, though that’s a minor thing =p
For the girls I tried yet again with stretchy materials since the dowel method didn’t allow for tilting, and on the third attempt finally hit a decent balance.
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| more alien artifacts |
Once again, glued pieces of craft foam at either end, but this time using a short length of sewing elastic. It’s not 100% perfect, but it’s more flexible than the dowel rod and a hell of a lot less floppy than the rubberized leather cord from the second attempt (which I’m not even going to go into detail about here; the sad trombones would totally drown me out).
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