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Step 11Strange Lights In The Sky
The smaller second ship is constructed in a similar fashion as the first. Since it is flying and the gear is retracted, I used thick pie plates as landing pads and tied them up through the umbrella's cover.
The next thing needed is some quality rope which is lightweight but strong enough to suspend the saucer. I recommend 3/16" black polyester rope (a 500 foot spool on eBay costs about $50). Before joining the two umbrellas together, tie off some of the rope to the bottom half and feed it through the mast to the top half. The ship is hung from the bottom, and the upper portion just sits on top with a center coupling.
The smaller umbrellas that I purchased happened to come with grommet holes at the edges of their covers. Instead of duct taping the gap like the first UFO, I "stitched" them together with rope. The completed flying saucer is shown in the last photo with a painted children's umbrella covering the bottom hole.
The next thing needed is some quality rope which is lightweight but strong enough to suspend the saucer. I recommend 3/16" black polyester rope (a 500 foot spool on eBay costs about $50). Before joining the two umbrellas together, tie off some of the rope to the bottom half and feed it through the mast to the top half. The ship is hung from the bottom, and the upper portion just sits on top with a center coupling.
The smaller umbrellas that I purchased happened to come with grommet holes at the edges of their covers. Instead of duct taping the gap like the first UFO, I "stitched" them together with rope. The completed flying saucer is shown in the last photo with a painted children's umbrella covering the bottom hole.
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