All other projects are on hold! A giant box containing this beauty arrived this afternoon. The quality looks excellent. Some tabs on the sprue attach to the sides rather than the rear on the 'T' panels, so they'll require some careful sanding on the curves, but this is a sturdy and heavy kit.
I intend to light the body panels. Apart from on one orange disc which lacks any openings, I think there are enough hollows and openings to run LED wires to the clear plastic parts, all of which seem open at the back. I'll need to drill through the head mount to run wires up there and again through the stand mount so I can run it off a single power supply. I will appreciate all your support in the wiring on this! I'm intending to run it off a 12v mains adaptor and use LEDs in parallel that are pre-wired with transistors for 12v DC and will be asking a LOT of questions as I've never lit a model before. Something this scale looks a good place to start though. I'm going to keep all the wiring inside except for the DC connector.
The white and orange plastic look great. I thing I'll just be clear-coating those. I'll be using chrome paint and then a metalizing powder on the metal parts. I'll also replace the tall aerial with a brass rod.
The first thing I'll do is some test assembly of the inner frame to plan the wiring. Exciting!!!
I intend to light the body panels. Apart from on one orange disc which lacks any openings, I think there are enough hollows and openings to run LED wires to the clear plastic parts, all of which seem open at the back. I'll need to drill through the head mount to run wires up there and again through the stand mount so I can run it off a single power supply. I will appreciate all your support in the wiring on this! I'm intending to run it off a 12v mains adaptor and use LEDs in parallel that are pre-wired with transistors for 12v DC and will be asking a LOT of questions as I've never lit a model before. Something this scale looks a good place to start though. I'm going to keep all the wiring inside except for the DC connector.
The white and orange plastic look great. I thing I'll just be clear-coating those. I'll be using chrome paint and then a metalizing powder on the metal parts. I'll also replace the tall aerial with a brass rod.
The first thing I'll do is some test assembly of the inner frame to plan the wiring. Exciting!!!
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