Kila2000
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- Aug 13, 2012
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Ok, heres the big update I promised.
First, a little back story. Way back when I started building this I wanted to be lit in sections and I even dreamed of being done in a certain way. My investigations then made me think it was just a dream but I built the model with the lights in sections thinking I could one day do what I wanted with it.
Well, a few weeks ago, after getting her assembled, I re-visited the lighting issue, this time with more determination, and this time with success. Heres what I was wanting to do from the start. The model has 11 LED strings for different parts of the station, power core, Promenade, Ops, etc. I'm having this so that each section can be turned on separately from each other and in any order, but also I'm able to turn the whole station on with one switch. Thats the easy part. The hard part was what I most wanted, and what I finished up working on tonight. I wanted the station to light up in a sequence of my choosing all to the Deep Space 9 theme. I know the station never did this on the show, but I wanted my DS9 to be a little different.
Ok, heres a video of her doing her thing. By the way, the theme playing in the video is coming from the lighting circuit, it isn't dubbed over the video.
http://s454.photobucket.com/albums/qq268/Kila2000/Test%20vids/?action=view¤t=Fullsequencetestvid.mp4
I still have alot of detailing to do and of course painting but with the electronics out of the way I now know what size the base needs to be.
First, a little back story. Way back when I started building this I wanted to be lit in sections and I even dreamed of being done in a certain way. My investigations then made me think it was just a dream but I built the model with the lights in sections thinking I could one day do what I wanted with it.
Well, a few weeks ago, after getting her assembled, I re-visited the lighting issue, this time with more determination, and this time with success. Heres what I was wanting to do from the start. The model has 11 LED strings for different parts of the station, power core, Promenade, Ops, etc. I'm having this so that each section can be turned on separately from each other and in any order, but also I'm able to turn the whole station on with one switch. Thats the easy part. The hard part was what I most wanted, and what I finished up working on tonight. I wanted the station to light up in a sequence of my choosing all to the Deep Space 9 theme. I know the station never did this on the show, but I wanted my DS9 to be a little different.
Ok, heres a video of her doing her thing. By the way, the theme playing in the video is coming from the lighting circuit, it isn't dubbed over the video.
http://s454.photobucket.com/albums/qq268/Kila2000/Test%20vids/?action=view¤t=Fullsequencetestvid.mp4
I still have alot of detailing to do and of course painting but with the electronics out of the way I now know what size the base needs to be.