Dave,
Wow. I just found this build thread and am blown away. Awesome choices for add on parts, PE, lighting etc. Yours skills are creating something that is greater than the sum of its parts. And that kit has a lot of parts

Unfortunately this kind of got pushed aside for a while, mainly because I was terrified of all the extra lighting I had decided to put into this and how to go about wiring it all up.

They year end is fast approaching and I still have so much to do with this so I just needed to knuckle down and get over my fears.

I started by spending a lot of time soldering small lenghts of wire together until I was happy I got a nice finish, took some time I can tell you.

once I was happy I assembled an LED and resistor to put what I had learnt into practive on a real live part so to speak. Turned out decent enough that it would hold for a very long time

I didnt bother taking pictures of the numerous short lenghts of wire with large lumps of solder on.

The next job was to solder the engine wires on to the control board. This is from the lighting kit I purchased, it was you using a wire wrap tool to secure the wires but I thought soldering them would be much more secure.

Next job was to work out the wiring up of the first bunch of LEDs, in this case the 3mm landing lights, and then start wiring them to the circuit board I had, this is for the additional lighting on top of the lighting kit.

10 resistors that will each be connected to a pair of 3mm LEDs

Once all resistors were on a quick test was in order before I got too far.

with the +'ve and -'ve wire I poked them through the hole, added a lump of solder and then trimmed of the excess wire to try and make it look neat.

A short bit of shirnk wrap attached over the ends near the circuit boart to further tidy it up and then a test fit in situ. Its going to get rather busy inside, there is actually plenty of room for it all though.

Overall Im quite pleased with how the soldering turned out, practive really does make perfect, or close enough

Thanks Andy, I didn't actually realise a simple twist join would be sufficient for lower voltages.

I think I will still sold all the joins as I will just keep worrying that something would come loose over time, that and I've spent so long learning to solder now

Just caught up with this build, heck it looks amazing, well done

Great build Dave. Wondering if you figured out your space issue with the LED's. You can file the LED plastic dome down any way you want as long as you don't expose the metal inside the dome. this might give you the space you need to install the tight fitting LED's. And you can get a 90 degree bend in fiber optic without losing any intensity of the light.

I have bought the Revell Master Kit 1/72 Millennium Falcon as well as the Deago kit. Shhhh don't tell my wife. Anyways, I was looking for a decently priced FM kit when I read a rumor that Revell had bought the FM molds so that they could continue making the model. Same molds but a fraction of the cost of a FM one online. Anyways, looking forward to seeing your progress.

Revell Master Series Millennium Falcon

Stunning work Dave looking brilliant

Reg Martyn