gt350pony66
Master Member
Howdy fellas...just subscribed to this thread, looks like you guys have a lot of great ideas for this kit! awesome!
I'm awaiting my kit to arrive from J&S and will be watching this thread carefully. I'm a lighting freak as well. Building this for a friend of mine in CA (I'm in AZ) he sent me the rather lame Pegasus version as that is all he could afford, but after looking at it, and knowing how badly he wanted the movie version, I decided to pony up and buy this one for him, though he won't know whats going on till he opens the box once I send it to him. I originally bought the 16" only to find out it was a one piece cast, no way was that going to work with any lighting. He'll likely pay me back when he can, which doesn't concern me a lot. I wanted to build this one. Anyway, when I asked to return the 16 and reorder the 31", they told me 20% restock fee! I mean come on, really? particularly since I was buying the more expensive one! I talked them into 10%, but still, kinda crappy if you ask me.
I see Timey is doing some fantastic work with home made upgrades, I will certainly follow suit. I see there has been issues with the brightness of the LED's, I've found that sanding them tones down the light, and if the hue isn't quite right, you can lightly go over them with a Sharpie or other colored markers. I learned this building my MPC Millennium Falcon's with massive amounts of upgrade parts and lighting. I've just in the past year rediscovered modeling after a 10 year hiatus. learning much I didn't know in the past, now I'm going nuts with everything.
I also use just about everything you can get for these from Shapeways, I'm happy and surprised to know that there is some stuff there for the Nautilus as well and will be getting those items also. I'd like to thank you folks in advance for these posts, lots of stuff that I hadn't considered, let alone thought of to do with this thing and I'm sure it will turn out far better now.
And my buddy that this is for, well he's going to be floored when he opens the box.
thanks!, keep the post coming!! :thumbsup
I'm awaiting my kit to arrive from J&S and will be watching this thread carefully. I'm a lighting freak as well. Building this for a friend of mine in CA (I'm in AZ) he sent me the rather lame Pegasus version as that is all he could afford, but after looking at it, and knowing how badly he wanted the movie version, I decided to pony up and buy this one for him, though he won't know whats going on till he opens the box once I send it to him. I originally bought the 16" only to find out it was a one piece cast, no way was that going to work with any lighting. He'll likely pay me back when he can, which doesn't concern me a lot. I wanted to build this one. Anyway, when I asked to return the 16 and reorder the 31", they told me 20% restock fee! I mean come on, really? particularly since I was buying the more expensive one! I talked them into 10%, but still, kinda crappy if you ask me.
I see Timey is doing some fantastic work with home made upgrades, I will certainly follow suit. I see there has been issues with the brightness of the LED's, I've found that sanding them tones down the light, and if the hue isn't quite right, you can lightly go over them with a Sharpie or other colored markers. I learned this building my MPC Millennium Falcon's with massive amounts of upgrade parts and lighting. I've just in the past year rediscovered modeling after a 10 year hiatus. learning much I didn't know in the past, now I'm going nuts with everything.
I also use just about everything you can get for these from Shapeways, I'm happy and surprised to know that there is some stuff there for the Nautilus as well and will be getting those items also. I'd like to thank you folks in advance for these posts, lots of stuff that I hadn't considered, let alone thought of to do with this thing and I'm sure it will turn out far better now.
And my buddy that this is for, well he's going to be floored when he opens the box.
thanks!, keep the post coming!! :thumbsup