Alright, here's how I did the eyes.
I took the inspiration and loosely followed the tutorial for lighting iron man eyes from xrobots, found here:
http://xrobots.co.uk/IM6/index_lights.html
I cut some cardboard from a six pack, painted it silver and poked rows of leds into them, wiring up my own light strips:
I'm using super bright, water clear white rectangle leds. They measure 2x3x4mm
I then glued the top strip to the inside of the brow, with the wiring against the front of the brow, and the side strip I glued to the back of the eye frame.. oh yeah, I made a frame/housing out of foam.
The lenses are cut from a 2 liter bottle, then I put the mirrored tint on them and covered the front with a piece of white tulle from an old tutu of my daughter's.you can barely see the tulle in the pictures, but it helps carry the light across the lense similar to if a grid were carved. Coupled with the mirrored tint it glows pretty good.
The tulle is pulled tight over then lenses and glued onto the backside. The nice thing about the mirrored tint is that you can't see the mess thats going on on the back side lol.
There's two switches to control the lights. One switch turns on the top row in the brow (which, I like the effect of just those ones better) the second switch lights the side rows of lights which give it more of like a tactical lighting or something since you can see the individual lights:
Top and side row:
Just top row:
There's 21 leds In each eye. 12 on the sides and 9 across the brow... A total of 42 lights. The beauty of it is that since the lights imcrease the ambient light outside the tint, its super duper easy to see through the helmet. Way easier than the white plastic on my other spidey mask.
So yeah, hope that's a decent description of what I did. I took a few redesigns to get it right.
