So after building a 3 foot TOS Galactica (Battlestar Larson) I have completely switched gears and am building and lighting (!) the tiny Bandai Star Destroyer! I had a bunch of left over .25mm fiber optic. Needed to do something with it. After seeing Dorobou's fantastic SD I decided I'd try my hand at lighting it. He used clear resin cast parts, mine is more traditional, with fibers. Still, major headaches.
I started by gluing some pieces together so I could hollow them out to make room inside. I cut out a good portion of the upper hull, under the super structure to open it up.
My plan is to terminate the fibers inside the super structure so they are "pointing" at a single diffused white LED, as opposed to running fiber to a tube and gluing said tube to an LED like normal.
The hardest part so far was modifying the neck to get the fibers from the bridge down to the hull. Lots of grinding inside the bridge did take place.
Anyhoo, here are some pictures to show where I am at so far. Should be able to finish this up in a week.
Trenches drilled out.
Super structure glued together and hollowed out. Fibers run.
Hull opened up for access.
Modified bridge neck and bridge fibered up!
Super structure windows.
