In this update whole lighting setup was brought together and installed, but before this could happen the mounting points both on the base and on the vehicle had to be sorted.
A quarter inch hole was drilled into the hull of the ship just opposite a bulkhead.
Styrene tube was added to line up with the hole, this is firmly glued to the bulkhead, as you can see the interior of the vehicle has had a coat of Tamiya flat black to help prevent any light leaks from the internal LED.
The wiring, LED light can assembly and the optic fibres were then installed. The light can for the LED was made from a section of styrene tube that snugly fit the LED, this was heat shrinked over to hold it in position.
A second smaller diameter styrene tube had the optic fibres heat shrinked and white glued in place, this is a snug fit inside the LED tube.
My attention then went to the base, the zip drive case was disassembled.
A quarter inch hole was drilled in the top for the mounting rod, styrene tube was glued inside and this was well braced with styrene offcuts.
Once I was satisfied with the strength and the glue was dry, the whole case received an undercoat of Mr surfacer 1000 from the airbrush.
When this was dry the whole case got a quick coat of Tamiya titanium silver.
This will be the base colour for the ridged area and will also serve as a chipping effect for the rest of the case.
More soon,
Cheers,
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