Hi all, hope your holiday season went well and this new year's treating you well thus-far.
Having purchased the AMT 'Enterprise Incident' kit before christmas i decided that this new year should bring at least a few finished projects and as such set aside the kits my lazyness had allowed me to stall on -p.l TOS Enterprise, AMT Batmobile, Airfix James Bond and Toybiz Cap Am- to name a few! (serious case of 'the styrene is greener syndrome' !) and decided to build it to it's entirety - a start this year as i mean to go on sorta thing.
Anyhoo, i've drilled a million holes in the enterprise and one of the D7s (thru the use of what seems like 3million 0.35 drill bits!) and blacked the insides. Now i'm just left to wonder how to fix the fibre optics. I'd rather glue them on the inside before closing the ships up (as opposed to the dolop of cement that the instructions suggest be placed around the protruding fibres) but i'm unsure of what glue to use / if this is a good idea. Will PVA glue hold them, will CA craze / completely destroy them?
Also, a more brilliant effect would presumably result from the inside ends of the fibres being pointed straight at the light source (the supplied grain of wheat bulbs) but does this need to be the case to get a decent effect?
Any help would be much appreciated or any links to build ups of the kit or info on using optics in models would be great
Rob