Lights finally working!!!!!!

Darth RyanKCR · Post by **Darth RyanKCR** » 2007-02-28 12:28am

I finally got all the lights working again on this AMT model I built in 1993:

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2007-02-28 10:57am

That actually looks pretty good! Wonder if I could get one to come up like that?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-02-28 11:47am

That's cool. I really like that underlit spotlight thing.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2007-02-28 11:52am

Sweet, extremely sweet.

Darth RyanKCR · Post by **Darth RyanKCR** » 2007-02-28 01:43pm

Thank you all for the nice comments. I still can't believe it held up for this many years. Here it is in the daylight without the lights on:

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2007-02-28 01:50pm

Nice, so its about one meter long?

Darth RyanKCR · Post by **Darth RyanKCR** » 2007-02-28 02:02pm

Redleader34 wrote:Nice, so its about one meter long?

It's the AMT kit that is just over 22 inches long. Don't know how to convert that to metric. Sorry.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-02-28 02:32pm

Just over half a mater, if my bastardized imperial/metric (Imperitric) Education was anything remotely resembling anything accurate.

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2007-02-28 02:57pm

Can you switch the lights on individually while singing "bom BOM! Bom! Bom! Bom! BOM BOM! Bom Bom Bom dadadadadaDA!"

Darth RyanKCR · Post by **Darth RyanKCR** » 2007-02-28 03:12pm

tim31 wrote:Can you switch the lights on individually while singing "bom BOM! Bom! Bom! Bom! BOM BOM! Bom Bom Bom dadadadadaDA!"

Unfortunately they all come on at once with one switch.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-02-28 03:17pm

Very nice work. If you want to take a picture of the ship with the lights on, I'd suggest turning off all the lights in the room except for some table lamps which you point at the model, and then mounting your camera on a tripod and using a long exposure with no flash.

Darth RyanKCR · Post by **Darth RyanKCR** » 2007-02-28 03:27pm

Darth Wong wrote:Very nice work. If you want to take a picture of the ship with the lights on, I'd suggest turning off all the lights in the room except for some table lamps which you point at the model, and then mounting your camera on a tripod and using a long exposure with no flash.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I have a photography friend who was going to take pics of it but time got away from us. So model sat in his basement for a few years. I brought it home about a year ago and most of the lights were out. I thought I wouldhave to rip it open and rewire but turned out it was the battery holder.

I'll have to get back with him now that they are working again.

When I took the lights version of the photos it was dark out and no lights were on in the dining room where I put it. I had on two living room table lamps on in the other room and took two quick shots with my Motorola RAZR camera phone. They turned out better then I thought.

Darth RyanKCR · Post by **Darth RyanKCR** » 2007-02-28 07:34pm

I was able to get another shot:

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2007-03-03 11:17pm

Even better! You might also want to try it without anything illuminated in the background and away from any open doors or windows or whatever that is between the nacelles.

Darth RyanKCR · Post by **Darth RyanKCR** » 2007-03-06 10:54pm

I actually did try that too. Here is a link to more pictures of it and a few other models. I have a Darth Vader cape my brother made for me as part of my, ahem, costume, that I may try to use to hide things later.