The 4 Star, in the meantime, I cut off the whole side panels of the part, as they were totally off. I rebuilt everything from plastic sheet in 0.5 mm and 0.25 mm thickness. And of course, some filler. I don't use "glue", I prefer ethyl acetate. You can hold the parts together, then dip a fine brush into the ethyl acetate and then to the gap between the parts. The e.a. will run into the gap, and slightly pressing the parts together gives a strong connection, the plastic is welded together. After some seconds it is dry enough for moving on.
Here is a picture of the deflector base from 5 minutes ago. It needs just some more filling, then it's finished.
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Hope this helps!
Thorsten
Yes, I hope the light will be blocked by filler, primer and paint. But they are really bright, so it might not block 100%.
The 4 Star, in the meantime, I cut off the whole side panels of the part, as they were totally off. I rebuilt everything from plastic sheet in 0.5 mm and 0.25 mm thickness. And of course, some filler. I don't use "glue", I prefer ethyl acetate. You can hold the parts together, then dip a fine brush into the ethyl acetate and then to the gap between the parts. The e.a. will run into the gap, and slightly pressing the parts together gives a strong connection, the plastic is welded together. After some seconds it is dry enough for moving on.
Here is a picture of the deflector base from 5 minutes ago. It needs just some more filling, then it's finished.
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Hope this helps!
Thorsten
Here are some daylight pictures of the spot ports.
The ones around the bridge and on the bottom are not present in the kit, I added them from small triangles of 0.5mm plastic card. The raised panel detail around the bridge is mispositioned, I removed it to not collide with the spotlights. Probably I'll rebuild them from 0.25mm plastic sheet.
The LEDs are put onto the surface of the saucer as seen in the pictures above, and are glued with CA. It needs some sanding to get the excess glue away. Then I'll putty the LEDs to the surrounding plastic to get a smooth finish.
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Thanks for following!
Thorsten