starks
Sr Member
After much reading on other members builds and the excellent comparison between the Revell and AMT from Analyzer 1/72 RazorCrest - Revell vs AMT (Round2) (check it out if you haven't already), I decided on the AMT kit.
I want to display this as an in-flight model so the lack of an interior cargo hold was a non issue for me plus I can use that space to hide batteries.
I wanted to challenge myself a bit with this build and step up the lighting a notch. Now I am nothing special come electronics and am always blown away by what some of you guys achieve on here, building circuit boards and the way you can wire things and the hardware you make use of, writing software for sounds and flashing or flickering lights..... unfortunately these skills are far beyond me. I wouldn't even know where to start. Simple circuits though I do ok but wanted to push the fiber optics a bit more.
I wanted a decently lit cockpit, nose and engine navigation lights and of course engine lights.
I wanted to have the cockpit lit so you can see Mando and Grogu inside so started by making a replacement for the 3 lights above the door.
I also wanted fiber optics in the control panel so I made a couple of new pieces which I added to the instrument panel plus thought it would be really neat to have light up screens so I drilled the screens out of the control panel and put in little pieces of clear acrylic.
Sorry these are a little blurry but instrument panel painted, and I added the screen decals over the clear perspex.
Painting Mando, Grogu and the cockpit. Mando got the helmet decal and belt.
I knew the forward navigation lights would be an issue to wire once the cockpit was in place so ran 2 fiber optics back to a 3mm LED and fitted them to the forward panel.
The cockpit assembled and fiber optics (about 40) run and waiting to go into the body. I find this quite challenging. Running them is ok but gluing them sucks, and a few pulled through and I had left excess length, planning to cut them after, but found that trying to cut the excess length I had left to be a real problem. I got the job mostly done though.
And finally cockpit fitted to the body. It doesn't show in the pictures but in person you can see the back lit screen decals just fine. You can see the forward navigation light here also.
My plan is to work on the lighting for the engines now. Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
Josh
I want to display this as an in-flight model so the lack of an interior cargo hold was a non issue for me plus I can use that space to hide batteries.
I wanted to challenge myself a bit with this build and step up the lighting a notch. Now I am nothing special come electronics and am always blown away by what some of you guys achieve on here, building circuit boards and the way you can wire things and the hardware you make use of, writing software for sounds and flashing or flickering lights..... unfortunately these skills are far beyond me. I wouldn't even know where to start. Simple circuits though I do ok but wanted to push the fiber optics a bit more.
I wanted a decently lit cockpit, nose and engine navigation lights and of course engine lights.
I wanted to have the cockpit lit so you can see Mando and Grogu inside so started by making a replacement for the 3 lights above the door.
I also wanted fiber optics in the control panel so I made a couple of new pieces which I added to the instrument panel plus thought it would be really neat to have light up screens so I drilled the screens out of the control panel and put in little pieces of clear acrylic.
Sorry these are a little blurry but instrument panel painted, and I added the screen decals over the clear perspex.
Painting Mando, Grogu and the cockpit. Mando got the helmet decal and belt.
I knew the forward navigation lights would be an issue to wire once the cockpit was in place so ran 2 fiber optics back to a 3mm LED and fitted them to the forward panel.
The cockpit assembled and fiber optics (about 40) run and waiting to go into the body. I find this quite challenging. Running them is ok but gluing them sucks, and a few pulled through and I had left excess length, planning to cut them after, but found that trying to cut the excess length I had left to be a real problem. I got the job mostly done though.
And finally cockpit fitted to the body. It doesn't show in the pictures but in person you can see the back lit screen decals just fine. You can see the forward navigation light here also.
My plan is to work on the lighting for the engines now. Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
Josh
