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While playing around with some future and food coloring I found out that you can do tinted color clear coats. My formula was 6 parts future 1 part food coloring. My psi setting on my airbrush was at 25 psi and I was spraying 12 inches from the project. You must keep the brush moving. If you spray to...

Did the prototype today. No issues at all. thanks for the help Ziz!!

I am pretty confident this will work. It is a small model so lighting it should not require more than 3 leds in the primary and secondary hulls. As long as I have the correct resistor value on each led I should be ok. Would you agree?

I have done a primitive prototype with a total of 2 white leds plus the blinkers. I saw no noticable change in the brightness of the white led's or the blinking patern of the red and green led's. I will construct the full mock up hopefully tomorrow to make sure it works. The kit this is going into i...

Here's what I am doing. Two of those LEDs are orange. 6 are white and two are red and green blinking LEDs. I haven't done the complete set up but I have wired up a few white with my blinkers and they worked. The only negative thing I can see is I might have considerable battery drain. Forgot to ment...

Ok guys I have been playing with this idea and I wanted to know if this would work. Power source 9 volt One long positive wire Onelong negative wire 10 leds with the proper resistors in place Each led will be connected to the wires. So they will be placed in the middle of both wires. Positive termin...

I am going to be lighting a revell 1/600 enterprise. My power source is going to be 9 volts. What size wire would you guys use? I need to to be small. Would 30 gauge work?

I will take some this week end bud thanks again!!!!!!!!!

The pics will be in the star trek forum

Ok But I need to know if one 150 ohm resistor will be ok for two leds? I have hooked up two in a series with a 150 ohm resistors and on each the brightness dims alot. However when I just use one resistor for two leds the brightness hardly dims and that is what I need to know before i seal up the mod...

So to put it simply so my little brain can understand is yes it will work?

Do you have a resistor on each led or just one? I was going to hook them up in a series with one resistor.

Thank you Ken God you have been great help to me with this project!!! They are super bright leds, I guess thats why i didn't notice and difference. but just to be clear on what I am doing i will be going from the power hub to the first led then that led will will be hooked up to another led then to ...

I know this lol Its says I need a 1ohm resistor. However last night I hooked it up using a 150 ohm resistor and it worked I didn't notice any drop in brightness in the leds but the main thing is will this hold up or will this burn out. I don't want to do this and have the model together then not be ...

Ok I have a 6.0 volt power supply I want to run two led with a drop of 3.0 @20 ma Are 1/4 watt 150 ohm resistors to much?

I have a hot spot from the blue led for my deflector dish. I have frosted the dish and this helped but I still have a little hot spot. Has any one ever tried frosting a LED?

Awesome vids my friend. You helped me figure out how to do my project mentioned in a earlier thread. Now I was wondering if you could show us a vid on how to wire up a wall wart power source

Thats is exactly what I was thinking too lol

Now I just need to figure oout what i will use for the hubs lol?

Kahless, Sounds good. The only flaw I can see is with your green LEDs (in series). When running LED's in series, you need to subtract the voltage for each LED. I think it should be 6V -2.4V twice or 4.8V total voltage loss. That would give you 1.2 volts across the resistor at 10mA giving you a resi...

Ok after talking with Atlantis in a previous post I am ready to start my lighting project. I plan on using two four AA battery packs. Each pack will be 6.0 volts. I have a really good idea about led's now so here is my plan. Using the two packs i will split the ship in to two sections, one for the s...

I see that you can get blinking leds. Now can I just wire them up to my power source and they will blink? Or do I have to get additional parts to make them blink?

The fishing line idea has me curious! I will try it out tonight when I get home from work

To get a screen accurate lighted ship Trekmodeler's kit is the way to go! Now it is pricey like a few hundred bucks but if you dont care about blinking lights and just want a lighted ship get you some battery powered led light strings. They have 20 bright leds all ready wired to 3 AA battery pack. I...

I use the krylon fusion brand it bonds to plastic. I have completed my first 1/350 refit and the hull was sprayed with fusion white. after the decals were put on the over all color of the hull went from white down to a white/grey! It looks awesome. I am now using fusion satin white for my next refit...

No its for the 1/350 refit. And that is if acreation models gets those decals back in stock

I found this from krylon http://www.art-paints.com/Paints/Spray/Krylon/Fusion-For-Plastic/Honeydew/Honeydew.html Its called honeydew I wan to get these decals from acreation models http://www.acreationmodels.com/images/350tmpsb.jpg To me they are a decent match however I really cannot judge colors a...

Do they make a duck egg blue in a spray can? If not does anyone know of anything that comes close?

kool I am 100% confident I can do this thanks for all your help guys

ok so after figuring out how many led's I need i came up with this number I need 51 led's total 48 white 5 mm 3.3 at 20ma 2 blue 5mm 3.1 at 20 ma 1 red 5mm 2.3 at 20 ma now I have a total 16 strings I will be running off of a 12 volt power supply my power supply will be a 2000ma one for each string ...

wow thank you so much you taught me how to use and wire leds over night now I am sure I can wire up my own light kit and make it work with different switches the way I want it to lol now about what type of wires to use lol