Count me in, that looks a nice kit. Where did you get it from.

Hi Bish, nice to have you along. I got this kit at the SSM store. They pop up there from time to time.

All right, so here we go.

I did say I was planning on lighting this kit right? So starting with the engines,

They are well cast and have very good detail. However, they  are solid and will require some engineering to light. I started buy cutting off the exhaust end using my handy razor saw.

Then I got to work cleaning out the grill. I did this by first drilling some holes to make it easier. Then I used my hobby knife to clean out each pie piece.

Then I drilled and cored out the rest of the engine.

So when I am ready I will be able to glue the grill back in place and insert a led in the other end. I will do the same process for the smaller engines.

Thnaks Stephen, i normally pop on there every few weeks so will kep an eye out. Your off to a good start.

Not really familar with that ship but from what I see very cool looking. Nice work there hollowing out the engines, looking forward to more progress. 

Hi Gamera, they don't really have to much screen time. They were in attack of the clones, the ships that delivered the Clones from Kamin to Geonosis and they are seen at the end of the movie lifting off from Coruscant showing the deployment of the clone troops. They are also seen in some of the clone wars cartoons.

Ah, ok thanks! I looked it up, I remember them - I was thinking of them as a sorta prototype Star Destroyer. 

Gamera, quite a few people think that. I don't think they were really ever met to be a "ship of the line". Not saying that they could not hold there own, but, they are more of a command and support ship for the ground troops.

I have a little bit of an update. I did the same thing to the smaller engines that I did with the larger ones.

Now I have to figure out how to get the wiring to the engines for the leds. The bottom of the hull is pretty solid so a lot of resin to get through.

I was thinking about drilling through the disc brakes and the grinding out a large-ish hole to set the wiring.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the clarification, yeap that's the impression that I got from the websites I looked it. More a troop transport and support vessel. 

The work you're doing on the engines look good. No idea on how to do the wiring. I thought maybe you could add the wires to the outside as part of the piping on the ship's hull but she looks pretty sleek and smooth.  

For the wiring I can see no other way than to carve out some channels. Its the only way it will look right, and IMO its totally worth it for what you have in mind.

Better get yourself some extra sanding drums for your dremel. :)

After great contemplation and wonderful advice from my fellow modelers I have drilled and ground the channels for wiring the engines. I had a nice four day weekend, unfortunately most of the time was spent painting the house. So, not much done on the Acclamator and no current pics to show. I plan on getting back at it during the week and will hopefully have something to show during this upcoming  weekend.

Sounds cool, looking forward to the photos. 

Hello everyone,

    Well I got some work done. I was able to drill through the engine mounts into the ship

Then I drilled from the top into the base and then cored the area out.

I am contemplating if I should make a trench into the open area in case I need to run any optics or wires. Now I have glued the inserts into the trenches.

Now I am drilling the holes for the fiber optics in the trenches. This process will take awhile, I am working with a pin vise which will be tiring and time consuming.

You're making great progress. 

And don't it just make you sit there and think 'what the #@%@ am I doing!?!!' when you drill a great big gaping hole into an expensive resin kit... 

Thanks Gamera! It is with great trepidation when I start drilling an cutting things out that you are not supposed to. 

Well, not much to show for this weekend. I have about half of the trenches drilled for the fiber optics and I have some of the fiberoptics in place. Nothing really worthy of pics yet. Will post some when I start doing some lighting tests.

Yes, I got some work done. Over 140 holes drilled in the trenches for the fiber optics. That was tiring, monotonous and time consuming. I also went ahead and threaded the fiber optics into the top of the hull an glued them in place. I used .5 mm fiber optic  mostly because my pin vise did not have any smaller bits (which I will need to purchase at a later date). Even at that the bit is still a little to big for the optics. Now it looks like a bowl of rice noodles, lol.

I am going to start on the lighting rig this week and hopefully make some sense of that rats nest.

WOW!  I thought Robiwon's big Galactica was a lot of fiber optic cable!!! That's insane, in a good way of course. 

I was actually thinking some sort of Lovecraftian tentacle monster had invaded your work bench! 

Thanks Gamera! Although I just saw Nicholas' Acclamator that he is working on, he has at least twice as much stuffed into his! I like that he is working on one too, it gives me something to follow and some ideas. 

https://nicholassagan.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/commission-12256-acclamator-pt6/

Lighting conundrum.

Okay, let's start with what I am using. I have a 3 AA power pack (4.5 volts), 4 blue leds, 3 clear leds, 1 red led and 1 yellow led. All of my leds came from christmas lights. (which is a pretty inexpensive way to get them, especially during holiday clearance.) So this is what i get:

I can power the 4 blue leds and they work, same with the 3 clear.

If I add the 3 clear and 4 blues together they light up without any problems.

If i add the red and yellow to the 3 clear leds only the color ones will light, this also happens when I add the red and yellow to the blue leds.

The red and yellow will light when they are connected to power.

Now, all the positive terminals are combined as well as the negative. So positive to positive and negative to negative. I tried wiring in series, but that did not work for me. Now to my question(s).

When my lights are wired together and only some of them are lighting, Is that a power source problem? Do I need to up the voltage. I thought that if you did not have enough voltage the lights would just be dimmer. Having some light up and others not was something unexpected for me. I have verified that all the lights work and all the connections were solid. Any advice will be useful and thanks in advance.

Okay,so it has been a little while. I have been working on the lighting and think I have it figured out. Here is a little teaser.

I decided to light the tower so I drilled out the support tower.

Then I drilled out the windows.

Fed the fiber optics through. Unfortunately I thinned out the resin a little to much and the side cracked a little.

In the process of fixing that now. Glued a piece of plastic in place now I just need to drill some holes and put the fiber optics through.

So this week I plan on finishing the tower and attaching it to the top of the hull. Hopefully will star painting this soon.

I like your results, she's gonna look very cool when done. 

Thanks Gamera, I hope I will be able to pull it off! BTW I appreciate your responses.

This is really cool, I'm surprised you haven't had more comments. It's certainly not the lack of quality work here. 

That's alright, I have had a lot of lurkers. The most I have ever had, lol.

This is from the kit maker on the starshipmodeler.com site. He is not even going to sell them in the store, so if you want one you have to boogie on over and sign up. I am not sure of finescale advertising rules so I removed the guys contact info, you will have to go to the site to order.

The last of the Victories are in the Starship Modeler Store. I will not be doing any more of those, at least in the next year or more. I'm moving on toone last run of the 1:2256 Acclamator. 

Details: Measures A little under 14" L, 8" W, and 3" H. 24 pieces, including new 3D printed laser turrets. 

Pictures of an excellent buildup by Stefan Hacker can be seen here. Parts layout of the kit can be seen here. Sorry, those are old pictures, but they are the same parts, in gray this time LOL. 

Price? $135 with free USA shipping, $40 worldwide (It's a big box, and postal rates are outrageously high) 

If you would like CLEAR engines for lighting, please add $20. You will get: all 4 engines, plus the bridge section(Bridge and bridge spine in clear. No way you're fitting fiber optics in that bridge if solid. 

Most likely, this will not be sold in the SSM Store, so this is your last chance to get one before this goes away forever! Happy shopping

Okay, my progress for this week. I got the engines painted and unless there are any suggestions I am calling those done.

I've got the fiber optics light blocked. There are a few more strands that I need to round up, but I am almost ready to attach the leds.

The next two pics show the tower and the tail attached. 

I think I am ready to start painting the hull halves and then get ready to close it up.

Super cool!