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Antennas
Sometimes you may want to add an antenna to your model, apart from using the obvious photo-etched antennas available there are several other possibilities (all gathered from the 87thScale.info messageboard).
Not so
obvious.... (tip from Eric / Sylvain)
- Cats whiskers ! (No need to cut them off, don't worry. They fall off every now and then, you just need to find them)
More commonly
known (tips from Chester / Albert)
- a bristle from an old paint brush.
- one of my own hairs
- bristle from a soft tooth brush
Other materials
(tips from Skunk / Chester)
- the extremely fine copper wire found inside the
tiny fuses on the boards inside TV's and VCR's
- wire from old vacuum tubes (really small and hard to handle)
Found by
accident.... (tip from Chester)
- Quite by accident, I found another way to fabricate small antenae. I laid a hot glue gun on the workbench and it dripped onto the bench. When I pulled it away, the long thin strands hardened immediately into a terrific thin strand. Note: the slower you pull it away from the contact point, the thicker the strands.