Thanks LrdSatyr8! To be fair I have been doing practical creature Maquettes and digital model/FX work for almost 20 years now but this is the first time I have worked on a hardsurface practical model! It's a lot of fun and really given me some cool ideas for painting digital models now, anyways, yeah for the EL tape I buy it online at amazon and here locally in Texas at FryElectronics, just check what type of power supply you are getting there are different types and its not always apparant unless you start looking into it, some have blinking options, some are just on/off ect...
Yeah I think that would probobly work out great, I got some really thin mask tape from testors I think? it's like1/32 inch that could work as well if you wanted to mask instead of scratch. For now I have shelved the interior stuff it was just too much work and time for something that I will NEVER see hahaha maybe later in the build if I get board of waiting on parts i'll finish it out but wanted to put the time into some other models now that I'm completely addicted to scratch building stuff!