I'm in the process of building a Moebius Battlestar Galactica model and have been thinking about lighting it but looking at some models I didn't like the way it looked as if there was a flood light producing the light so after a quick think I made this, it's my attempt at a model sized florescent light using an LED
I laser cut a piece of acrylic 3mmx3mmx25mm for this test and taped an LED to the end. The first attempt was a complete fail as the acrylic did a fine job of internal reflection:
So I broke out the 1200 grit wet and dry and evenly sanded all sides and tried again. This was taken with the same light source in the same location and the result is promising.
Next I will be adding aluminium foil to 2 of the sides to reflect more light the way I want it(I've ran out).
It's not much of a post but I thought it may be useful to someone It's oing to be used for my flight pods.
I laser cut a piece of acrylic 3mmx3mmx25mm for this test and taped an LED to the end. The first attempt was a complete fail as the acrylic did a fine job of internal reflection:
So I broke out the 1200 grit wet and dry and evenly sanded all sides and tried again. This was taken with the same light source in the same location and the result is promising.
Next I will be adding aluminium foil to 2 of the sides to reflect more light the way I want it(I've ran out).
It's not much of a post but I thought it may be useful to someone It's oing to be used for my flight pods.