SO, I painted the exterior of the whole ship "Gunship Gray" ... this fills in all the scribe lines etc... so, when I go over it with a light coat of Camoflage gray, all the details will be brought out..
Also below, use see the bread board I have for the fader circuit and the engine lights are in place and wired up.. Thats a single PIC 16F676 ...the users manual for that one chip is 192 pages long.. So, it took me a while to write the program that controls the lights. You can't do that, at least not very easily, with traditional electronics components. It uses something called Pulse Width Modulation... some PICs have a hardware version of it.. but I wrote a software version of it as a matter of understanding how it works..
You also see I've begun running the FO... basically, I just cut out a bunch of tubes and glued them into place... then, I ran each strand of FO into the tube until it was full. I used Super Glue to glue the ends of the FO into the windows.. and used Elmers glue to seal the all the FO in to the tube. That tecnique worked for me as just running all the FO at once and then adding each strand in to the tube became cumbersome.. I tried running all the strands of FO in to the tube first and then pulling the FO through the holes.. but that ened up wasting a lot of FO... The way I ended up running the FO was the mose efficient without wasting alot of FO. It may be more time consuming however.
Also below, use see the bread board I have for the fader circuit and the engine lights are in place and wired up.. Thats a single PIC 16F676 ...the users manual for that one chip is 192 pages long.. So, it took me a while to write the program that controls the lights. You can't do that, at least not very easily, with traditional electronics components. It uses something called Pulse Width Modulation... some PICs have a hardware version of it.. but I wrote a software version of it as a matter of understanding how it works..
You also see I've begun running the FO... basically, I just cut out a bunch of tubes and glued them into place... then, I ran each strand of FO into the tube until it was full. I used Super Glue to glue the ends of the FO into the windows.. and used Elmers glue to seal the all the FO in to the tube. That tecnique worked for me as just running all the FO at once and then adding each strand in to the tube became cumbersome.. I tried running all the strands of FO in to the tube first and then pulling the FO through the holes.. but that ened up wasting a lot of FO... The way I ended up running the FO was the mose efficient without wasting alot of FO. It may be more time consuming however.
see my other builds at:
http://www.skunkwurkzmodels.com
http://www.skunkwurkzmodels.com