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Star Wars Republic Cruiser in progress

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  • Member since
    July 2006
  • From: Nashua, NH
Posted by Madman Lighting on Monday, October 19, 2009 1:50 PM

Its my own product actually.  This project started out as a build for wife project then I got kinda involved and engineered a pretty complete fiber optic solution.  Then it turned into a product, like alot of my builds do.

 The wiring is a bunch of white LEDs driving bundles of 1/4mm and 1/2 mm fiber optics, then for the engines I used 1mm and 2mm fiber from a single blue LED.  The four big engines each have their own wide angle blue LED.  The LEDs are all driven from one of my Delux-8 cards.

 The painting has been interesting.... Very many shades of gray.  After I primed it I pre-shaded all the panel lines, and then shot the whole thing with Light Sea Gray as a  base color.  Then we mixed the red and masked and shot that, and the several other shades of gray and masked and shot each of those. 

 

Now we're down the the very fine details with a fine brush part.  Many hours, lots of detail painting and work.

Thanks!

 

-John

 

That Madman who Lit Up Deep Space 9

  • Member since
    January 2005
  • From: Cave City, KY
Posted by Watchmann on Monday, October 19, 2009 1:11 PM

That looks really good, John!

I've got that kit in my stash, and I'd like to illuminate mine as well.  Can you tell us more about your wiring?

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  • Member since
    July 2006
  • From: Nashua, NH
Star Wars Republic Cruiser in progress
Posted by Madman Lighting on Monday, October 19, 2009 11:55 AM

Hi all,

 

Here's a few in progress pics of my Star Wars Republic Cruiser.  I did a complete light up of this one, with LEDs and fiber optics.

 http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt114/MadmanLighting/100_2770.jpg

http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt114/MadmanLighting/100_2771.jpg

http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt114/MadmanLighting/100_1494.jpg

http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt114/MadmanLighting/100_1507.jpg

 Soon it will be finished and I'll have more pics then.

 

Thanks!

 

-John C.

 

That Madman who Lit Up Deep Space 9

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