ScaleModelDisciple said:
...As far as getting that glow for engines, what about the option of using the side-emitting fiber optics. I know you talk to MMT a lot ...
Another method for dispersing the light inside a model that i have seen is to use cotton balls. This method was used in an episode of Plamo Tsukurou, where the modeller was depicting the fire in Azuchi Castle...
The side firing Fiber will not likely be strong enough across the length needed. If you saw my video, you know that the middle lighting is mediocre at best ---for this circumstance---. A random array of single leds would light things better. If space were at a premium inside the Falcon and even lighting was not an issue, the fiber might be a good option. But in this case, space is plentiful. Years ago, I was going to use a couple ccfl tubes. The problem was, being straight, one foot rods, they could only get so close and the light was uneven because the back of the ship is a curve and the rods are not. So the ends of the engine bay were brighter than the center.
I saw that video of the 'cottonball castle'. That was ingenius and simulated smokey fire very well. In this instance, simple mil jug plastic or wax paper is your better solution, imo. The wax or plastic will provide a nice even glow whereas the cotton balls will always be 'puffy' and stretched too thin or thick across the area. Also depending on how many leds, how much cotton, that will get warm.
A short circuit, imo, would start a fire far easier in a tightly packed cottonball situation than if a small sheet of wax paper were simple near the leds and they shorted. The milk jug plastic is even better protection since it wouldn't combust, (but would, of course, melt).
Check this link for the Falcon Engine Bay special Modeler's Brand is having!
http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php/topic,3970.new.html#new
I even remember that electric drill of you first video. It works for several minutes, before the drill bit breaking off ;D Maybe not my kind of tool, hehe!
