Eagle-1
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Looking pretty awesome so far! Love the additional details.
Thank you Mr. elend.
Looking pretty awesome so far! Love the additional details.
Great man... Just amazing.
I seriously think it's more work to 'correct' something like this than it is to scratch it from the beginning.
But incredible work none the less.
I always wonder why they didn't give it more of a battleship feel, some big ass guns and stuff.
I'm fact... I ones thought so much about it, that I ended up modeling my version of the Galactica. I don't wanna steal your thread so I'll link to it here
Here
I hope it's OK, if not let me know, I'll remove it.
Yeah... Back in my 3dsMax days.This you?View attachment 90157
Yeah... Back in my 3dsMax days.
The new BSG was all the rage back then, and for some reason the design partet the waters, so I figured I'd design my version of it. Never finished, but it, and my viper got a lot of attention.
Anyway, those details look sick man, keep it up.
Hi Rob,
I do not have any pictures, but instead I've been building this kit on my YouTube channel.
It shows my work on a breadboard to create an LED chaser circuit using a 555 chip and a 4017 chip together for the chase light sequences for the hangar bays' landing runways. Here's the link to Elonic's helpful how-to video I followed: (Link removed for this reply only).
The problem is that this is supposed to run on 9V, but I can only get the results when I power it down to 5V. It might be because I am not using as many lights as the Elonics guy? I'm usually pretty good at understanding Indian accents, but he mumbles a bit. Once I can get this to work, I will provide you with the best information as I can, and draw a diagram that even a non-electronics guy like myself can understand because I really don't understand what I am doing.
I wanted to learn how to do this sort of thing because those pre-built timers tend to be expensive. My friend in San Diego just gave me two Tena Controls chips for use on Enterprise models though, so now I am curious to play with those. I already found a schematic to use a 556 timer chip to use on Enterprise models though, as it controls the blinking nav lights and the anti-collision strobes simultaneously. These Tenacontrol chips are nice, but I still want to muster the courage to figure out these things on my own. One more diagram I have is for lighting a Trek-style torpedo launch bay and I want to try that out on my 350 K'Tinga kit.
Greg
You're not being derogatory at all. I get plenty of derogatory comments on YouTube, particularly from armchair modelers who say I don't know what I am doing (which I never claimed otherwise) and they have zero content of their own to provide the community. I just share what I do and seek feedback from people who can give advice without being dickbrains about it. So far, the worst in my experience are Trek modelers. Their attitude is "be a perfect professional modeler or GTFO," as their expectation is that their time is so extremely precious that only the best modelers should dare provide modeling video content.The following, in no way, is meant to be derogatory AT ALL, so DON'T take it as such. You and I both will be trying these things and there are things to be aware of, as you said and just because I mention something, doesn't mean you don't know already. Now, I'm sure you're aware that SOME components have an orientation, right? By that I mean they can be placed in a "wrong" direction and won't work properly, if at all. Always check. There are ALSO voltage ranges on many of these components too, so be sure there as well.
It looks like you can just move it forward a bit, after removing that circular protrusion which is currently in front of the bridge. It won't be a perfect match, of course, but good enough for me. I might pull out my shelf queen and take a look at it tonight when I get home from work an hour from now.