star-art
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There's not much room in there even on the full studio-scale version. Trying to do all that at 1/2 size is going to be a real challenge. I'll be interested to see what you come up with.
37 1/2 inch (1/2 studio scale) TOS Battlestar Galactica scratchbuild #2
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There's not much room in there even on the full studio-scale version. Trying to do all that at 1/2 size is going to be a real challenge. I'll be interested to see what you come up with.
NakedBrain
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Fantastic work, tor! Wow!
Gort
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Hi Tor,
That's exactly what I'm hoping to achieve as well. Great job.
May I ask, is that a commercial LED chaser strip you've cut down, or a circuit/rig you've done yourself? - I've been trawling around but not seen a compact strip with a suitable chase sequence that I could cannibalise yet. Any recommendations?
Cheers
Nick
That's what I'm wondering as well!
Attaching the head, the supports here may be over kill but better safe than sorry. Using the 1 inch 1/4-20 bolts to secure the head. The 1/2 inch center is just the resin that is cast in the head, used for alignment. Be sure to check the fit of the detail plate along with the scrap reinforcements.
Hi Tor,
That's exactly what I'm hoping to achieve as well. Great job.
May I ask, is that a commercial LED chaser strip you've cut down, or a circuit/rig you've done yourself? - I've been trawling around but not seen a compact strip with a suitable chase sequence that I could cannibalise yet. Any recommendations?
Cheers
Nick
Hi
Yes that's a christmas "snowfall" decoration with a plastic tube, with 20 LED's, but I used only 10 of them, allways taking the second one.
I drilled 2 holes in the plastic tube for each fiber optic for both sides, and had to carve out a lot of resin from the landing bay part, for the fiber optics not to bend to much. It is in my opinion the easiest way instead of taking a circuit board and soldering LED's, put them in place and then to fit the fiber optics to the LED. Don't ask me where I have bought them, as I got them on ebay germany for over a year for another project which never has been realised, but I think this should be easy to find now after christmas as a discount.
Raoul
That's exactly what I'm hoping to achieve as well. Great job.
May I ask, is that a commercial LED chaser strip you've cut down, or a circuit/rig you've done yourself? - I've been trawling around but not seen a compact strip with a suitable chase sequence that I could cannibalise yet. Any recommendations?
Cheers
Nick
Hi
Yes that's a christmas "snowfall" decoration with a plastic tube, with 20 LED's, but I used only 10 of them, allways taking the second one.
I drilled 2 holes in the plastic tube for each fiber optic for both sides, and had to carve out a lot of resin from the landing bay part, for the fiber optics not to bend to much. It is in my opinion the easiest way instead of taking a circuit board and soldering LED's, put them in place and then to fit the fiber optics to the LED. Don't ask me where I have bought them, as I got them on ebay germany for over a year for another project which never has been realised, but I think this should be easy to find now after christmas as a discount.
Raoul
The dowel is for the center of the box that supports the engine section, you can use any 1 inch tube if running more complex lights and need the room. You will also need some 1/2 evergreen to align the box. I will post pics of it soon.
The t strip is detail for the front landing bay caps, I suggest you paint the red stripes before applying them, I left them as separate parts because taping off something that small and delicate would be very difficult.
The t strip is detail for the front landing bay caps, I suggest you paint the red stripes before applying them, I left them as separate parts because taping off something that small and delicate would be very difficult.
137th Gebirg
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Interesting idea to use one of those light bars as a source for landing bay chasers. To synchronize both bays, however, I might actually use the actual LED circuits instead of fiber to send the signal into mini LED's by wire into each bay with a single light bar in the main body. This is especially critical, as I plan to actually build a full-size landing bay inside each housing, basing the design and top lighting on the transparencies. As you said, fiber doesn't bend too well but copper wire does.
I'm also thinking of using nylon fishing line in lieu of fiber. Not as clean a vehicle for light transference, certainly, but a lot more flexible and inexpensive compared to the real deal.
Gort
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Thanks Raoul, that's a big help. As soon as you include 'snowfall' in your search as opposed to 'chaser' a whole new world opens up!. They seem to be mains voltage out the box, but looks like once it stripped down you got a battery hook up going on, which would suit my purposes better.
Cheers
Nick
Cheers
Nick
thunderbolt47d
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Got mine today! The pictures here do not begin to do it justice! It is phenomenal! I am VERY happy!
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tko24
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I'm still waiting on mine. Seeing the pictures posted on here has me chomping at the bit to get my hands on it! I've been building models for 20 years but I've never lighted a kit before. Is there a idiot proof step by step build log for the elctrical/lighting on these forums for novices like myself?
thunderbolt47d
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I was going to ask the same thing! I have been a builder for over 30years and have built hundreds of 1/48 WWII aircraft and Sci-fi injection kits as well as over 100 resin aircraft and sci-fi kits so building this one will not be a problem.But like you,I have never put lights in any kit. So I too would like any advice those here with experience in lighting can give me.
