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!