Well that modified landing pad is a very neat idea.

You really have come up with some incredible upgrades to your model and i am really enjoying seeing yours taking shape.

Hope it all continues well.

woooow,
do you sell your PCB and components infos?

Well, this is Alex from Rome/Italy

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Lovely work Chip, looks great. I’m sure you’ll sort out the light bleed. It will be all worth while when you see it all connected up inside.

Mark

Built my static and flashing LED looms and connected them up to the hold so far, these same lines will provide static and flashing for both the turrets and cockpit too. Powered by 4 of the 12V outputs from my custom controller board the 3 differing flash rates and the static illuminate when applying cockpit power (as they power the cockpit lights), the dejarik table illuminates on activating hold lighting on the remote along with the corridor lighting, and the yet to be wired up bed light, inspection pit lighting and computer room lights.









Pretty happy with the effect so far but may tweak the flash rates in the code for a bit of a faster rate from one of the lines. Need to tidy up the corridor lighting as a bit of bleed through some of the covers and need to touch up the dejarik table as had to put more transparent paint on the fibres as was too white and with my twitches most of it ended up on the tables sides lol.

Here’s a quick video of the hold lighting so far:

https://youtu.be/lRQJv9nDMXs

It’s what’s inside that counts .... apparently according to the proverb well I wish it could be said the same for my falcon lol.

The hold is now approx 95% complete, I had been waiting on a back issue to arrive as I was missing a corridor arch. With that in my possession I set about the port corridor and also the communications room off to its side and the wall light between the two.

Port Corridor:


Port Corridor Lit:


Comms Room (forgot to take pics during construction):










There are a number of touch ups required, the corridor lights are showing a few leaks through the light shades, which were a complete beggar to fit, somebody a damn site more talented than me really needs to make 3D printed corridor cushions with accurate lights built in!

I still have the bed light to wire up, the holds console chair to paint, various cargo pieces and I’m still debating whether to do the forward hull wall pipe and pillars but for now I’m going to put the hold to rest for a little while and start work on the lower hull so I can actually start placing the hold and it’s lighting lines etc.

Various hold pics:

Wow I can’t believe it’s been 10 months since I posted here or did any real progress to my Falcon, 1000 apologies to anyone who has been following this but I have been suffering from health issues and in what spare time I have had has been taken up with other projects:

Built and cleared my Biker Scout with the UK Garrion 501st Legion:


Designed and 3D printed my Biker Scout EC-17 Blaster, with full electronics. This was the first EC-17 with special effects cleared with the UK Garrion 501st Legion:


https://youtu.be/7lmLP8glfeY

Also designed and 3D printed my Biker Scout DLT-19X Sniper Rifle, I did this so I had something to use as a walking stick if I began to tire during a troop (which is happening more and more often). Again this included full electronics and I decided to try and make a HUD type scope, the reason.... just because really lol. This again was the first DLT-19X with special effects cleared with the UK Garrion 501st Legion:


https://youtu.be/YbB-xKhYxKk

Anyway back to the falcon, after resetting all my previous image links due the hosting site I used changing its servers I can now share my recent update:

I have built the lower hull, filled in the tv mount screw holes as I won’t be using this, sprayed the layer with Tamiya Insignia White and drilled and installed landing light LEDs and the red anti-collision lights.



I snipped and soldered the 4 main 5mm landing lamps to join them to my smaller landing lights wiring looms.



I checked these worked correctly with my phone Blynk controller..... so far so good 😊



I purchased Anti-Coll shrouds via shapeways and these will be added following painting of the lower hull which I hope to get round to in the couple of days.



So the New Year is now with us and I endeavour to make the Falcon a priority in my to do list in the hopes of finishing it within 2019. But until then I wish everyone a happy new year and wish you health and prosperity for the year to come.

Cheers Tomick, unfortunately now getting to the part I dread ...... the painting
Watched numerous YouTube videos on weathering and oil washing and after stalling for as long as I could I finally got down to it.
Hull now painted and, I think, sufficiently weathered, amazing how cleaner it looks in a picture compared to reality though.
Took a series of pics with/without room lights:

Worked on the undercarriage and the lower cannons pleased it seems to be taking shape, but it really needs some undercarriage doors before I move on to fitting the internals. I plan to install fibre optics into the top cannon only as both firing at same time would look odd.









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Nice work Chip, and great to see you back on it again. She’s dirtying up very nice, not overdone.

Mark