Lighting engines in a starship

Aggieman wrote:

Hi, I recently re-discovered an old Shuttle Tyderium that I partially built several years ago.  I've dusted off the cobwebs and decided that I'd like to finish it, including lighting up its engines. Thanks, Steven

I just found one of these in my garage, after muc work, digging and organizing. I'll be watching this thread. Good luck with your build. I know Mike Emery used to sell "Light Sheet" but I don't know if he's still in business?

Thanks to the above for links. 

Steven

I went nuts on my Tyderium, having never done any sort of lighting I referenced The Grail otherwise known as Shep Paine's How to Build Dioramas with its section on lighting. I used his techniques, grain of wheat bulbs, and minimaglight bulbs with a battery pack in a base.

I used the minimags for the engine and instrument baclighting, and color acrylic tube for anticollision beacons, with mag light bulbs in the wings for nav lights.

I learned a lot from doing it and it was a great experiment....not to be repeated! :D

I would go with the lightsheet, I think you will get more even results overall and use LED's and a blinking chip from over at starship modeler for nav lights and such.

David

Hi Aggie,

           The light sheet you're talking about is "electro-lumenecent sheeting" also known as e.l. sheeting. If you have a digital watch with a backlight, you've seen this stuff in action. I bought an "experimentors kit" (too many) years ago, I think it was from Edmunds Scientific. It came with a small sheet, 2 1/2" by 4" or so, of e.l. sheet and a battery holder along with some color gells. I was thinking of doing something very similar to what you're talking about. Hope this helps and I would like to see pics of your Tyderium when it's done.

Model on...