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Weekend update...
Saturday I plugged all the remaining wire harneses into the main PC board and hooked it up to the wires from the power jack in the underbelly.
Then I poked the wires back inside the secondary hul so the the board coudl slide into the new brackets I had made earlier. It slid in just fine.
Then for the moment of truth; I tested the light and motor circuits using my just acquired 12V X 2A power adapter from Modeman Tom's store and...
OMG! Horrors!
The board started to smoke!
Yikes!
Just kidding...
Everything worked perfectly as planned.
Sunday I'll finish painting the sanded saucer rim with "concrete".
Saturday I finished touching up the nacelles where I had filled in the small sinkholes next to the inboard trench-two on top and two on the bottom side of each trench. They were so minor I had considered just living with them but "they tasked me" so I filled them with PPP before sanding smooth; or what I thought was smooth. The hull color went on nice but you could still see the border of the putty just barely on two of the sinkholes so I had to sand again and respray at about 9 PM last night after getting home from a family BBQ. Call me anal but I wanted to finish the nacelle paint touch ups yesterday so they would be dry by this morning. I also hit a few spots on the secondary hull where the paint had gotten marred by my efforts to remove some dried stray bits of AVES putty.
All sinkoles are now gone and the nacelles and secondary hull are nice and smooth.
Oh... and I also sprayed the deflector dish and rings with Alclad copper, painted the base with Krylon Stainless Steel, glued the "warp balls" into the rear endcaps, glued the screens into the nacelle trench covers. and finished painting the "ion pod" for the lower saucer dome.
Sunday I finished painting the saucer rim and worked some more on the stand. Stainless Steel areas were masked off (took me about 5 hours to finish the masking) and areas inside the floodlight frames were sprayed with Testors Gloss Black enamel.
Here are some pics of Saturday's progress...
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IMG_4732 by trekriffic, on Flickr
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IMG_4731 by trekriffic, on Flickr
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IMG_4736 by trekriffic, on Flickr
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IMG_4739 by trekriffic, on Flickr
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IMG_4740 by trekriffic, on Flickr
Please note the accent color of the parts in the second to last photo are not as bluish as they appear in the photo. I adjusted the pic for brightness to darken it a little which accentuated the bluish nature of Model Master Medium Gray. In person, they are much more gray than blue.
Thanks for reading!
