Refit navigation light/strobe light placement

z1pkicker · Post by **z1pkicker** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:33 am

Hey guys,

Somewhere on the interweb is a diagram which shows the colour and location of the 1701 Refit's navigation & strobe positioning but I can't seem to find it any more.
I'm hoping someone out there can help out please.

Cheers,

Bruce

brt · Post by **brt** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:05 pm

http://www.virtualight.com/

click on reference on the home page.

z1pkicker · Post by **z1pkicker** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:22 pm

Awesome. Excellent. Thank you so much mate.

Now, I guess that the Madman lighting kit wouldn't work for the Refit because the kit only has six flashers where (if I interpret the diagram correctly) there are 12...?

Maybe John from Madman could help out here.

Cheers, and thanks again.

Bruce

Disillusionist · Post by **Disillusionist** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:59 pm

Corect me if I'm wrong...but, I don't think the lights on the fantail are supposed to flash....at least they don't in TMP. They're always steady-on. Just watch the flyover at the end of the movie.

z1pkicker · Post by **z1pkicker** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:43 pm

Just watched the Mutara Nebula scene from TWOK.
The top & rear lights at the stern of the engineering hull flash in sync with the saucer running lights as per the diagram in the link above.

In the scene you mention, they are static on - at least the lower one is as you can't see the top.

I prefer the flashing.

brt · Post by **brt** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:58 am

Disillusionist wrote:Corect me if I'm wrong...but, I don't think the lights on the fantail are supposed to flash....at least they don't in TMP. They're always steady-on. Just watch the flyover at the end of the movie.

Things changed for Wrath of Khan. For the new footage in II and III the fantail lights blink in sync with the rest of the nav lights. The leaving drydock footage in II is a re-use of the tmp footage so the fantail lights are steady on for that bit.

brt · Post by **brt** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:03 am

z1pkicker wrote:Awesome. Excellent. Thank you so much mate.

Now, I guess that the Madman lighting kit wouldn't work for the Refit because the kit only has six flashers where (if I interpret the diagram correctly) there are 12...?

Maybe John from Madman could help out here.

Cheers, and thanks again.

Bruce

10 nav lights and four strobes. Granted the port, bow and starboard lights could be reduced in half if you ran fiber optics from those LEDs reducing the count by 3.