Moebius Galactica

[Glorfindel]

Bobo that looks great! Why...I can see Lorne Green!

 

[Igard]

Wow! That's excellent work. Enjoy you're hols bobo. 8)

 

[JohnSimmons]

OOooh nice work ;D

 

[schweinhund227]

I have to get one of those... That looks mighty nice !!!

 

[panzerace007]

DARPH,

WoW ! Great detail on such a small model !! Love th landing Bay !! Is there any way to get th Landing Bay lights to chase ? Did They do that in th Show or am I thinking of when They would take off ?

 

[Grumpy Popeye]

I did see a build on youtube that featured chaser lights,so it is possible. I'm thinking teeny tiny circuit card was involved!

 

[Solander]

Awesome painting here! That drybrushing really did a lot to the look of the hull.
And awesome lighting as well.
Can't wait to see some new progress

 

[smusno]

good colour choices.

looks ace.

 

[Quaralane]

Definitely looking good

 

[biomedchad]

More more more!

 

[ScreamingSamuraiStudio]

Awesome work on the mods and the paint so far.

 

[Grumpy Popeye]

Back from the depths of page 5-6! ;D

Now that my Cylon Raider is out of the way, it's time to get the Galactica put to bed! I took advantage of a day off to finish the wiring. kinda messy, but it all works

you can see up front my canister to direct light to the "brick". Once the body halves are glued together, the head can be slipped in place.

My "custom" distribution panel!

After some trial an error for fitting the top of the body in place, I got the main hull glued together and puttied up the seam in the flight pod garages with some Aves.

I think it's time for a light test!

Kinda grainy, but you can see the brick is nicely lit!

This shot (kinda looks like the Adama Maneuver) really shows off the garage lighting!

Now there is some detail painting to do, glue on the engine nozzles and guns and then build a base!

 

[Dark Kyp]

nice light-up!

 

[Grumpy Popeye]

So I was working on the engine lighting this evening, trying to figure out the best way to cut the brightness of the LEDs. If I was a wee bit more clever, I would have made a diffuser plate to tone down the brightness and hot spots before closing the engines up!. My work around was to loosely pack some cling wrap into the engines, and voila! hot spots gone!

Here's my engine test;

main engines,

Flank speed engines,

All together now!

 

[Grendels]

Looks good! One way to diffuse the LED's is to file down the outside of them. Then you don't need a diffuser.

 

[Grumpy Popeye]

Unfortunately I set the LEDs deep into the engines, reaching them with sandpaper isn't an option At least the kling wrap is working well

 

[Igard]

Bobo, I'm fast becoming a big fan of your lighting effects! That cling film works really well for diffusing the hot spots.

 

[Grumpy Popeye]

Thanks Igard! It's good to know the gov'ts spending all that money to train me as a naval electrician hasn't gone to waste!

In other news, was mucking about with the camera tonight,

Raptor on approach,

"Raptor 04, call the ball,"

 

[Quaralane]

She's looking really good.
Excellent work with the lighting

 

[Kila2000]

Wow, this is some really amazing work. The lighting really brings it to life and I dont think I've seen this kit lit before. Nice work.