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There are lots of good you tube videos that you can check out.

80 hours? Go with LEDs and use a trim pot to lower the brightness of the LEDs and / or find something to diffuse the LEDs.

Just google photo luminescent panels tutorial. That should pop up a bunch.

Do you have any wiring, soldering, electronics skills? Easiest approach that I can think of would be to get a 9 volt battery and some pre-wired LEDs rated for 9 volts and some wire, 24-30 gauge for a long enough run to your battery. http://lighthouseleds.com/pre-wired-leds-1/9-volt-v-pre-wired-leds-...

I just have the wires run down the brass tube of the stand and into the breadboard for my d-7. 2 nav lights, one steady general for windows and a trim pot for the torpedo tube that I can fade up at any speed I want to.

asalaw wrote:Just got a jar of the Liquitex Modeling Paste at Michael's and I'm trying it out on the PL 1/1000 D7 on my bench. I'll let you know what I think.

How did this work out?

and 10k and 15k for flasher timing on the chip. Pardon my ignorance, but what are "10k and 15k"? Thank you for your guidance. I appreciate it. Oops, left out the word "resistors". So 330 ohms resistor, 10,000 ohms resistor etc. since k represents 1,000 you get 10k. 330 ohms to 4...

Get a breadboard, a 555 timer chip, some 3mm LEDs and at least some 330, 470 ohms for some LED protection and 10k and 15k for flasher timing on the chip. Then check out some tutorials online unless you have some experience already, then play with the stuff on the breadboard. Get some 24 gauge (wire ...

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=838719 the link looks like it should help and includes an ssm link about the 4060 chip. the rc thread suggests using a 4017 instead of 4060 as from what I gather, the 4060 splits timing at various intervals per pulse for each pin while the 4017 would s...

Grain of wheat bulbs are not known for a long life. Did you glue your model together? If you just snapped it together, can you take it apart without damaging it? Do you have soldering skills to replace the bulbs with LEDs?

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Perhaps this might work for you.

I have made 2 orders from lighthouse and used a few dozen with only one not working. I assumed I screwed up and I did not check polarity as you did.

http://www.jsminiatures.co.uk/viewcategory.php?groupid=41 http://lighthouseleds.com/led-component-lighting/smd-leds-surface-mount-diodes.html I have not ordered from the uk link and have only ordered regular LEDs from lighthouse with no issues and quick delivery for me as an international destination.

Not from north of the 49th. Not likely to ever happen for me. Maybe put it on my bucket list?

Any chance on recording it and uploading to youtube?

Nice. Thanks. I have 2 part epoxy on hand.

I guess it is a question of sequence here. I am starting the revell Klingon d-7 and there are a number of clear plastic parts for window etc. Do I paint light block first? If so, how do I glue windows in as far as paint glue/adhesion? If I glue windows first, then do I mask and then paint block?

There has been a fair amount of activity over on SFMA re: Arduinos, so much so that Boyd created a new forum for it: http://scifimodelaction.com/sfmaforum/index.php?board=23.0 There's sample code to blink both running lights & strobe lights with one board. Thanks for posting this. I added the l...

30 or 32 AWG. Runs in tight spaces. Not sure about whether stranded or solid suits you better. Stranded gives me a bit of an issue sometimes when stripping it.

You will need to learn coding for Arduino if you want more than just basic lighting fx.

TurkeyVolumeGuessingMan wrote:Good idea. Thanks. I'm not sure how to go about doing that, since I'll have to learn the terminology to even know what to search for. But I will keep that in mind.

http://101science.com/Radio.htm

free basic electronics course / resource

I'm just working on my first lit model. To avoid soldering resistors to LEDs and possibly frying them, I have purchased pre-wired LEDs from http://lighthouseleds.com/ Purchase went smoothly. They have a choice of voltage and sizes 3mm to 10mm. I bought a breadboard kit, some 555 & 556 timers and...

Thanks for the reference! Strobes are also of interest to me. I used the link below to build breadboard my nav and strobe circuit. You can use 2 555 timers or a 556 timer which is just 2 555s in one. The pin layout was a little harder for me to deal with on the 556, but I got there. http://electron...

http://electronicsclub.info/555timer.htm Scroll down to 555/556 Astable. Read about resistor 1 and 2 values to give you the on / off times that you want. Get yourself a breadboard kit. Some LEDs, resistors, small capacitors and a few 555 timers to play with. Lots of references on line. I have federa...

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Westinghouse ... 5yc1vZc7po

I bought this but haven't used it yet.

I'm only aware that if your LEDs do not get enough amps/milliamps, that can cause issues. I'm not an expert though. If you have the LEDS to spare, hook up the same number to your 1 amp supply and see what happens, sparing your model.

I don't think anyone has an answer for you. I would guess .25mm. That's the smallest that I have seen. Consider that the 1/350 E refit has a 1mm opening for nav lights, so .25mm isn't going to be too small.

Are the 9V and 12 V power suplies different? If they are the 12V supply is pulsed DC. Somewhere on it you'll see a symbol that looks like a dashed line. He says there is no flicker from the 12V supply when hooked up to just one strip, so I don't see it being a pulsed DC issue. I am thinking that th...

How much current from the 9 volt source versus the 12 volt source? Maybe there is not enough current to light both strips well from the 12 volt source.

http://www.arduino.cc/ To move beyond starter kit programs, C++ coding would be helpful, but your hacking skills may be sufficient. I have gone through the lighting projects in sparfuns' starter kit. There would seem to be a number of ways to script the same sort of project. One of the pages I visit...