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Thanks, Naoto! He has a nice little series on the concept...

Mark in Okinawa

Thanks, guys, I was afraid that would be the answer. I was thinking about the disolved sprue approach - If I can get the sprue to glue ratio right that's probably my best bet.

Thanks again!

Mark in Okinawa

So, lets say I have some parts that come out of the box in the perfect color and I don't want (or I am too lazy) to paint them. Let's further speculate that there are some gaps that need to be filled between these parts, and that my primary filler of choice is white Tamiya Liquid Surface Primer. Thi...

I could probably manage something around the holiday at the end of the month...

Mark in Okinawa

Those of you who scratch build using various types of brass stock might be familiar with this problem - I picked up a few pieces of brass 1/8 x 1/4 rectangle (hollow, like a square tube) at a local craft shop. Each piece is about a foot long or so. There wasn't much of a selection so I had to take w...

Caliber, I was just wondering if you were planning on doing a number of standard configurations, such as Starfleet TOS (nav lights, interior lighting and random bussard lights), Starfleet TMP+ (nav lights, formation lights, interior and torpedo effects), Klingon BoP (flickering engines, interior lig...

You could use the boards anyway, and mount them behind a bulkhead cut to fit the nacelle interior with wire leads between LEDs mounted in the bulkhead and soldered to the appropriate pads on the board... Also, for fans, check out the Sayama 58 rpm gearhead motor - it's tiny and relatively light, che...

As it happens, I came across a Tuskuda Klingon Bird of Prey not long ago, so something like this might be of value to me (I have a couple of ERTL KBoPs too that will need some lighting). The flicker effect video you posted is kindof washed out though- hard to really get an idea of what the end resul...