Acclamator Assault Ship
There is some misallignment of the details on the lower hull...
.... I removed it...
... and glued it with better alignment
the cast was very thin in the marked areas so that I had to reinforce it
The bow of the upper hull has to be build new because of bad cast
Because I intend to lighten the bridge I cut it with a razor saw in order to hollow it
The hollowed bridge ready for the installation of two small LED´s.
The pylon on which the bridge has to be installed
I did not like the deep trench and closed it.
The callenge was how to illuminate the engine in a way that illumination is not only a blue dot of the LED. The solution is to use an optical lens, which needs an adapter ring for installation
The lens installed inside the trust tube of the engine.
Illumination check photografed with flash light
Illumination check photgrafed without flash light
The kit misses the rocket and torpedo launchers which I added.
Bores for engine illumination LED´s
Chanels for engine illumination wires
Cut outs in the rear wall for illumination
LED installation space for rear wall illumination
Light dstribution box for side wall illumination. Light will be transmitted into the box by optical fibre with 1,5 mm diameter
Installe light distribution box
pre painted greeblies for the side and rear walls
painted lower hull
Painted upper hull. Markings have been masked and airbrushed.
View into the top half of the hull. It includes the electronics and fibres to illuminate the command tower, torpedo launchers and turbo laser ( flicker effect) and some grebles at the side walls and stern
View into the lower part of the hull. It includes the electronics to light the engines and the cable for power supply
Connecting upper and lower hull
Kommentarer
16 6 January, 19:47
Christian LehmannThere is a distributor for Europe in the UK. Its name is Tirydium Models.
18 March, 18:10
Markus HelmersAgreed, the panels look really good. Makes me want to repaint my Venator.
1 June, 21:45
Christian LehmannThanks Garreth and Markus. I only preshaded the most prominent panellines with a medium gray color. For the majority of the panels I used the primer ( mr.Surfacer 1200) as prehading color. Each panel is seperately airbrushed begining at the center of the panels with a very light gray. For the bright panels I added one drop white and masked the panels before airbrushing them. For the colorized panes I added some olive drab or brown into the light grey base color and applied the high dilluted color in different layers with a brush.
2 June, 09:39
Markus HelmersSo the fibres are just so you can use fewer LEDs? Also are those premade chips for effects or some type of nano arduino? Not that advanced with electronics yet. I cheat where I can so this is very interesting for me to see how it's done. 🙂
12 June, 19:40
Christian Lehmann@ Markus: Youre right, the fibres limit the number of LED´s and the small fibres enable to create small dots of illumination like at the turbo lasers . The small IC´s are responsible for flickering and the others at the large bord provide constant current of 20 mA like an electronic pre resitor. Iam not sure if they are really needed but after some try and error they helped to avoid damaged LED´s. I tried to keep it simple because I am also not that familiar with electronics. Power source is a battery pack with 3x1,5V=4,5V batteries and everything is connectet parallel so that each part gets the same voltage.
13 June, 04:39
Markus Helmersthe small fibres were obvious to me, just unsure about the big ones, but that's not a bad idea at all. You can trick so much with electronics. I recently got some LED remotes off ebay for like 2€ each and while I wasn't sure they'd work at all, it turns out they're not only capable of dimming the LEDs, but also come with a bunch of premade effects that you can even adjust the speed of. I was very impressed with them.
13 June, 09:08
Album info
This is the Acclamator Assault ship as seen in Episode II and some Clone Wars episodes. I wil illuminate it.
