SO, I've been making slow progress - work's been holding things up. First post is to show the engine lighting solution i came up with. I had trouble finding tubes to place behind the engines to direct the led light so i made my own out of cardboard. Then stuck some translucent plastic from a folder/binder i had lying around on the end of each tube to diffuse the light...

The leds aren't as bright as i was hoping - I think I may have burned them out a bit when I was testing them. I've decided that that's ok though because I'm going to be modelling the viper as 'on the deck', so it's engines wouldn't be at full power anyway.

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