Hi, I have seen the water bottles attached to the antenna of some armour with light sticks in them and am wondering how to make these. I am starting a Hobby Boss Leopard 2A6M Canadian and would love to have these on it.

Thanks!

You can use water bottle from Real model, Accurate armour, paint the cap deep blue or white.
Then you can glue the bottle to your antenna and glue 2 pieces of masking tape around.
Voila
Cheers
seb

To get the light stick, take a very small drill bit (about 3/4 the size of the top of the bottle), drill at an angle towards the side of the bottle, stopping before you go through the side. Fill it with a small drop of thinned red, green, orange..whatever paint. Fill the drill hole, and paint the 'cap' white or blue. Thin strips of tamiya tape painted green or black attach it to the antennae.

Sounds interesting ... can anyone enlighten me please. What is that used for? A reading lamp, a flytrap

cheers
Walter

It's for identification purposes if I'm not mistaking.I believe the lightstick can only be identified under infra red illumination from our aviation,armor,or ground troops.
Hopefully if not correct someone will post to correct me.HTH,
Ron.

yep thats what they do

Interesting low-tec meets high tec, thanks for the enlightment Ron.

cheers
Walter

Hi Robert

Here's what the method that Graeme described looks like and the effect it makes. These are Accurate Armour bottles drilled out with a splash of green paint inside the hole, then a chunk of Evergreen rod to cover the hole and painted to look like a bottle cap. Sometimes, types other than infra-red were used hence the green I used here.





cheers;
Bob