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Well, I finally found a way to built the light bars. Using 3 separate circuits. I opted for 3 SMDs per light, with 36 x 0805 SMDs total. Two careless mistakes though.. First one, is that one yellow light in the rear light bar, rotates in the opposite direction lol The second one is those two green l...

Awesome!

Thanks a lot!
My confidence level just rose exponentially lol

I'm buying you a beer!

Hi all! Like the title says, when connecting several different blinking circuits (boards) to the same power supply, the boards are connected in parallel - right? If so, do I have to worry about amperage the same way as for LEDs when they are connected in parallel, and add an appropriate resistor to ...

lol EVApodman! If that happens, I'll send them to you. Thank you for the help, Kylwell. Very interesting projects. The site is booked :) Well I found a code for a Arduino for the modern "pulsating" effect that I'll use for the bar above the rotating lights in the front. As for the rotating...

I like that effect Ant!

Except that I need 13 like this one lol.
(thought it was 12, but I forgot one red light on the roof).

I may have found a way, but it will still require 3 circuits. And the wiring will be insane lol

Thanks for the help EVApdman. It's 12 rotating lights, each rotating light made up of 4 SMDs. So 48 SMDs in all lol I'll probably have to make 4 or 5 circuits. I actually didn't think of wiring 4 SMDs in series! I was thinking of wiring them in parallel, but was worried about the amperage. But if wi...

Hello! I'm looking for a diagram to create a rotating effect for the lights of my Ecto-1a build. For example grouping 4 SMDs in a square with a chasing effect that creates the illusion of a single rotating light... I know how to create a chasing circuit using 10 LEDs with a 555 and 4017 chip, but I ...

Sweet!

They do have great deals.

I just ordered a combo pack.

Thank you!

When you buy fiber optics, do you buy the entire cable with so many fiber optics in it, or just single fibers?

I found this site and am wondering if I should get these...
http://www.fiberopticproducts.com/Endglow.htm

It's a Badger Crescendo Model 175-7, dual action, internal mix.

Hi folks! I'm new at airbrushing, and wanted to know how do you paint clear parts with clear paint. What's the pressure, distance, paint consistency, and so on that you should have? I tried and the result was a blutchy job. I had more paint in some areas and not enough in others. :roll: It wasn't un...

I'm building the AMT 'E', and I'm using 2-part epoxy to cement all the DLM parts. It says to mix it 50/50 - what I did. The epoxy never completely cured. So I cleaned the parts from the epoxy and tried mixing more hardener this time, and it still doesn't cure. I even tried adding some hardener for c...

Yup, tried Squadron and they were out of stock too.

I found some at Great Models and ordered the 1200, 1000, and 500.

Thanks Kylwell!

I'm really interested in trying out the Mr Surfacer product.... but is it me or everywhere I go on the internet they are all out of stock???

Hello fellow modelers! I'm trying to build a blinking circuit for my AMT refit, but I can't find any of these two chips on the internet.... Did anyone already order these chips and could give me a link? It's going to be my first blinking circuit, so I'm not yet familiar where is the best place to fi...

Sweet!
I didn't realize that SSM had putties in store.

I guess I will start with the WAVE Black CA and their Aves Sampler Pack.

Thanks for all the info. I will try to buy a few kinds to try them out. My third question would be where do you guys purchase these from? I live in Canada so I'm not sure if the same putties are found in stores here. I searched the internet for some online stores: http://www.michtoy.com/MTSCnewSite/...

I was wondering what kind of putties and techniques are out there to fill out holes and seams. I know there are different topics about it, but they are scattered all over the place. Hard to find exactly what I'm looking for. What I always used is a Tamiya modeling putty in a tube. It's not bad, but ...

Woah! It started working! All the chips work! I soldered all the components on the socket instead of soldering them on the chip. I soldered the components EXACTLY the same way than on the chips before. Now it's working, and before it didn't. Weird... Now... I found a nice blinking pattern, but how c...

Well, I went to buy 5 more 4060 chips today (thinking that maybe I burnt the other 5 while soldering), along with the sockets in case I would use the soldering iron again. :P First, I didn't want to solder them, so I tested each new chip on a solderless breadboard and making that circuit one more ti...

Zog, don't get me wrong, I understand your diagram and I thank you for it :) Like I said, one chip works fine, but the other 4 seem to be defective... maybe I didn't solder the components well... or the components could be defective? I'll play more with the circuit tomorrow. If I run into more probl...

If you pick the 2 resistors and the timing capacitor well, you can do quite a bit with a 555. Ok, but I have no idea how to use a 555, so I have no idea what "the" 2 capacitors you're talking about, nor what pin to connect them to... :oops: Are there any simple schematics on the web about...

Controllable?

I just want approximately 4 leds flashing like on the 3 defensive sails in the DS9 series.

I'm planning to use one flashing red led to power up the fiber optics in the sails, and 3 other leds to flash on the upper docking pylons.

Thanks for you help!

I'm in the process of building my first lit model - Deep Space 9. As I'm new to lighting models, I was following the instructions from this link: http://www.starshipmodeler.com/tech/cj_blink.htm. I bought 5 4060 chips and several capacitors and resistors as mentioned on that page. After making the f...

I'm in the process of ordering a few fiber optic cables from fiberopticproducts.com, and I'm not sure if I should also order the pc-2 cutter and the glue...

What do you guys use for cutting and gluing fiberoptics? I've never worked with fiberoptics before...

Thanks!

Very nice tutorials!
Bookmarked.