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In this one, I hook up two strands of fiber to the led.  Heat shrink is typical, but as there are so few strands, I use some regular electrical tape to hold them to the led.  I then seal it w/ white glue and once that was dry, dabbed some CA liberally dosed with baking soda, to encrust the assembly so it can never slip free. 

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMXtJRN_nzw[/youtube]


Here's some non-fiber lighting notes about the wax paper on the engines to diffuse the light.  Towards the end, I pick up on the fiber again using my MPC star destroyer as an example.  The very end talks about 'blooming' the fiber.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5VVz27zVmM[/youtube]


Before you are ready to seal your model for good, make sure you test your connections!  In this case, I pressed on all the wires looking for bad spots.  Lo and behold, I found one!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNRKIxDR9iM[/youtube]


Almost there! (Finally!)  Light bounces everywhere.  So you need to block it off.  A light box is simply anything which boxes around the light, such as seen in a previous episode.  In this case, I wrapped the black card around the engines for more of a shroud.  That encased most of the light, but I still had leak going on .  In that case, I simply sliced pieces of card and glued it in to baffle the light.  The fiber optics were picking up some of the blue spill, so I shrouded that in it's own piece of card. And that was that.  I may mention it in an upcoming video.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqJ_pZ5Wr9s[/youtube]



Coming Up:  Final checks and Sealing the body!


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