Hi Sofa - I'm not sure you're getting what I'm trying to say. Did you want the LIT PART of the tiles to look round, like in the above photo, or do you want the LIGHT looking more squarish, as in a fully-lit square button with no rounded edges as above? It will look good either way, but just curious.
Did they cut round holes behind each tile rather than square holes on the original prop? Weren't most of them actually fully-lit square buttons on the original prop, and not tiles? Again, I think it will look great either way, but I guess if it were me, I would (on the next two cockpits) laser cut SQUARE holes on each panel, rather than ROUND holes, if possible, to have more of a uniform square light shining through, as opposed to mostly round light behind square tiles, if you get what I'm trying to say? By cutting the square holes just a tad smaller than the tile sizes, then you can use that little boarder as what the tiles will adhere to when you glue them on. Ah, well. Have fun no matter which way you do it.
OH! I'm sorry... Yes, that is the exact look we're going for - square tile / round back light. It is the way the original designers did all the tiles. From what we can see, all the buttons are nothing more than backlit acrylic. Check out this screen grab - note the buttons above the cockpit door (also look at the far right / middle the white unlit button - see the round hole cut behind it)
Shadow of Reflection: Movie Screencaps R-S: Click image to close this window
Han looks a little drunk in this pic... but note the tiles bottom right
Shadow of Reflection: Movie Screencaps R-S: Click image to close this window
There's a better screen grab somewhere but I can't remember which movie or what part of the movie it's from. I understand what you're saying re: the square holes and it makes total sense but we're trying to stay as close to the original design as possible.
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