Revell Klingon D7 Battlecruiser - Lighting Technical Exercise - Done

[Mikey_W_1980]

Morning All,

So over the past few months I've been teaching myself how to light up a kit, with the help of a Grendels and a few others too.

The subject is a Klingon D7 Cruiser from Revell's ST:TOS series at the bargain sum of £5. This has been mainly a technical exercise to push my own abilities and take them to the next stage of my modelling skills.

the LED's Used were:

5 x 5mm warm white LED's in the "head" section
4 x 5mm green LED's (2 in each nacelle) for the warm nacelles
2 x 5mm amber LED's for the impulse engine

A very rudimentary circuit to tie everything together



Connection was a 2.5mm mono jack lead built into the bottom of the hull and the stand


Side view


Forward View


Aft View (impulse clear was painted red the difused with masking tape on the inside


Night Shot Aft


Night Shot Forward


No lighting


Forward view no lighting (and that is Moonraker on in the background)



Any and all comments are welcome....I know I have a lot to learn but I am pretty proud of this first effort.

Next up is the 1:500 scale Into Darkness Enterprise


I've already started building the LED's with resistors, Still unsure whether or not to for out the £36 for the aztecing decals......

Hope you enjoy the pics and all comments welcomed

;D

 

[Grendels]

Well done!

 

[Quaralane]

Very nicely done.

And good luck on the Enterprise

 

[Mikey_W_1980]

Cheers fellas....Have to admit, it was a huge amount of fun doing the D7. Even my brother who is an electrical engineer by trade was impressed... ;D

Grendels, your tutorials on soldering really helped, I'd not done this since high school, so at least 15 years ago, so I thank you for that.

The Enterprise will be a huge challenge, but I'm not one to back away from one. patience and precision I think?

 

[Grendels]

Your welcome, I made those videos for people like you so that they could do this too.

 

[Quaralane]

Patience would be the first thing I'd whole-heartedly recommend.

 

[Solander]

I second to what Quaralane recomends - and would be looking forward to see You build this big E.
Very nice job with lighting and overall here on this D7

 

[Boxster]

Oh wow, that is a very good job you did for this kit. I like it a lot!

 

[Mikey_W_1980]

Cheers fellas! I appreciate the comments. I found some more pics of the construction phase as well. so here you go....enjoy


first circuit done (sorry no internal pics...got a bit carried away


A little bit of light leakage and some light sanding to be done on the forward section




First Warp Nacelle lighting test


Second light test