This got me thinking today, at the somewhat (I'll be charitable) askance way modelers can look at even the most ordinary things ... for me, today, it was drinking straws and costume jewelry.
I got to that point while trying to figure out a way to build one of the radar domes for my CVN-65 Enterprise. The one portside, aft, has the rounded dome on top of a column of the same diameter all the way to the deck. That was the part that was stumping me. Inspiration eventually hit with a (discreet) raid on younger daughter's costume jewelry hoard, and discovering that one of the sacraficed necklace's beads fit nicely into the end of a plastic soda straw. A little super glue, some sanding, and viola! I need to get a hobby away from my hobby ...