Christian Lehmann Författare
Progress is slow but continously.

Markus Helmers
Interesting, where do you even find these kits?

Christian Lehmann Författare
There is a distributor for Europe in the UK. Its name is Tirydium Models.

CaptGPF
Watching!

Christian Lehmann Författare
Some new pics uploaded

Torsten
😎 ❤️️

Juergen Klinglhuber
congrats - looking great!

Christian Lehmann Författare
Thanks Torsten and Juergen!

Gareth Lloyd
The panel fading looks amazing, really nice Christian 👍

Markus Helmers
Agreed, the panels look really good. Makes me want to repaint my Venator.

Christian Lehmann Författare
Thanks Garreth and Markus. I only preshaded the most prominent panellines with a medium gray color. For the majority of the panels I used the primer ( mr.Surfacer 1200) as prehading color. Each panel is seperately airbrushed begining at the center of the panels with a very light gray. For the bright panels I added one drop white and masked the panels before airbrushing them. For the colorized panes I added some olive drab or brown into the light grey base color and applied the high dilluted color in different layers with a brush.

Christian Lehmann Författare
Electronic components are installed and hull is closed.

Markus Helmers
So the fibres are just so you can use fewer LEDs? Also are those premade chips for effects or some type of nano arduino? Not that advanced with electronics yet. I cheat where I can so this is very interesting for me to see how it's done. 🙂

CaptGPF
Using fiber optics to cut down on the number of LEDs is brilliant!

Christian Lehmann Författare
@ Markus: Youre right, the fibres limit the number of LED´s and the small fibres enable to create small dots of illumination like at the turbo lasers . The small IC´s are responsible for flickering and the others at the large bord provide constant current of 20 mA like an electronic pre resitor. Iam not sure if they are really needed but after some try and error they helped to avoid damaged LED´s. I tried to keep it simple because I am also not that familiar with electronics. Power source is a battery pack with 3x1,5V=4,5V batteries and everything is connectet parallel so that each part gets the same voltage.

Markus Helmers
the small fibres were obvious to me, just unsure about the big ones, but that's not a bad idea at all. You can trick so much with electronics. I recently got some LED remotes off ebay for like 2€ each and while I wasn't sure they'd work at all, it turns out they're not only capable of dimming the LEDs, but also come with a bunch of premade effects that you can even adjust the speed of. I was very impressed with them.

Christian Lehmann Författare
Finished! Unfortunately it turned out after final assembly that the LED´s of the bridge illumination did not work anymore. I was able to replace only one of them. So the effect is now not as it was originally.

Markus Helmers
Oh I hate it when that happens. Had a Bandai Slave-1 where I tore cables like 5 times. Still haven't fixed it xD Anyways, awesome build, like I said on FB, the lighting effects are something else! Love it!

Vincent
Very impressive build!!!

Christian Lehmann Författare
@ Markus: You can imagine that I was really p.... off and dissapointed because all the invested time and work was for nothing.
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Christian Lehmann Författare
@Vincent: Many thanks.

CaptGPF
Wow! Totally badass! Love the final result!

Christian Lehmann Författare
Thank you . I am happy that you like it.