although I included my way of making these antenna sockets in one of my building blogs, I will post it here as well as this is actually the place for this technical stuff.
And as always: any comments, suggestions, improvements or alternatives are highly welcome and appreciated.
Here we go:
I wanted to improve the antenna sockets so that the antenna can be displayed in a bent position (at least the left one). This required making the socket from wire that can be shaped into the desired form. The challenge was the ellipsoid shape of the socket. The technique I finally figured out is best explained with some pictures:
A wedge shaped piece was cut from regular masking tape.
This was wapped around a drill of the appropriate diameter.
Wire was spooled along the prepared part of the drill and - due to the masking tape wedge - took on an ellipsoid shape.
The masking tape was then burned off so that the wire spool could be slid of the drill.
The spool was cleaned with a brass brush and its ends trimmed and flattend.
Unfortunately I messed both antenna sockets up while painting them and have to redo them again. At least I now know how to...
Happy modelling
Michael
