Asteroids from Dollar Tree


 Asteroids from Dollar Tree (and Home Depot or Lowe's).  I bought (1) a set of 4 white styrofoam balls and (2) 2 sort of twigs with black and orange balls.  The unused black and orange balls, no longer taped together as a twig, are in foreground.   I used the wire that formed the twig to mount each ball to a heavy metal washer.  I mounted the white styrofoam balls on flight stands that I had glued to heavy metal washers long ago (and used for Full Thrust).  Then I put them in cardboard box and hit them with shots of gray primer and black primer until I thought they looked OK. 

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