This model is not making a whole lot of progress, I will get some work done on it in the near future. I have been going crazy on some 40k stuff, molding and casting and a lot of work on my TOS Bridge. I had a friend help me design a dome that goes around the AMT TOS Bridge model, so that it will hide all of the electronics behind a cool dome. The dome is in 16 pieces and magnetized to each other, so you can take pieces out to do repair work, or take a look at what is going on behind the scenes. The Falcon is starting to percolate back up to the top of the work heap though.
DJSLY - thanks for the link!!! That is where I learned how to do what needed to be done, and what paints, colors stuff is needed to do that. The only issue is that I have been thinking about adding a few more colors, but very little of them. I am probably going to go buy a $20 20 oil color beginning artist set and add a bit of pink, red, yellow, purple etc VERY sparingly throughout the model.
erredois - limited skill my *****, WOW, that is amazing, and it is built!!!! What a great video, loved it, it is fantastic. What a great inspiration. That whole diorama is 1/72? Your suggestion for the floods is exactly what I intend to do. On my 1/350 Enterprise, I got very good at using clear resin to fill in windows and LED flood lights, I don't want a round thing poking out, want it flat, completely agree that is a better look.
Avanuat - if Bandai comes out with one of these, I will probably procure, but it will sit on the shelf, have waaaayyyyy to many $s put into this one to start over on something else. All of the printed parts cost more than the model.
knievel - I am using LEDs that flash on their own. I bought them from Fiber Optic Products, Inc although many people carry them. I am not sure if you can change the rate at which they blink, but I have not played with changing the voltage going to them, so who knows.
blakeh1 - Thanks! If you can write C, then you are almost there. There are a ton of great Arduino tutorials out there, you can get an Arduino mini for $4 delivered on Ebay, which is cheaper than most flasher boards you buy from folks. A little bit of soldering and you are there. All you need to do, is add the Arduino in there to control the LED, your skills, from your post, are already there! Good luck.
Cheers,
James