Evergreen is a maker of plastic. They make sheet plastic, strips in various shapes and sizes, rods, tubes, square, half round, etc. Use these cut up into tiny pieces to add surface detail to the model.
Thanks guys, so after a lot of tinkering i think i have settled on what i consider a pretty simple and best looking engine light set up.
The stuff that Ryan found, the honeycomb stuff, is really perfect IMO. I wish i had figured that out earlier.
I wound up settling on a superbright 4 chip 12v volt LED for each engine and a 3mm red for the center engine. The 4 chip LED is a bit more expensive but is omi directional and really minimizes the hot spot of a standard LED
I did not use the provided LED holders for the but rather put the LED's in the provided structure for the engine section, this will really only work if you plan to permanently attach the top lid to prevent light leaks.
Diffuser is attached to the honeycomb material and really makes a nice engine glow.
Here you go, i get all my LED's here. They are so easily compatible with the cheap 12v power sources on Amazon and such. For a novice electronics guy like me it has always been pretty fool proof if I am not trying any flickering effect or anything like that. I figure any extra i pay for the pre wired LEDs, either the 4 chip or just regular ones, I easily save in time.
Hey Mike, great work. The honeycomb looks bang on. Takes me back to the old Monogram days of lighting.
I have tried to PM you a couple of times regarding buying one of your TOS BSG kits. No reply, but I know you are very busy. Any chance you can put me in the line for one?
Evergreen is a maker of plastic. They make sheet plastic, strips in various shapes and sizes, rods, tubes, square, half round, etc. Use these cut up into tiny pieces to add surface detail to the model.
Hey Martyn, if you load the parts I want to update everyone with to shapyways I will buy them for casting. Shipping was only like $7 to me (USA i guess) for the Raider parts you did for me.
My plan is to clean them, mold them, take a few low shrink castings and make a gang mold so i can do like 5 or 6 update sets in each pour, that way I can get them out fast to everyone.
Just a heads up, I will be away for about a week starting tomorrow and may have limited access to RPF.
I am almost at the end of the list and hope to finish up all the kits before WFest. Thanks to everyone for being patient, now that winter is over i should be back on track soon and on to other cool projects.......I hope....
thanks
mike