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but your building a full size Millennium Falcon now that is impressive .
another Spinner . 6th scale. printed
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but your building a full size Millennium Falcon now that is impressive .
May be able to help out - I've been experimenting with LEDs to simulate rotating beacons- just published some results here http://www.antsnest.net/blog/?p=516
Brain was whirring at 5AM this morning about how to make them better and more practical, and was thinking about a small jig I could CNC out of resin - then wondered if it would be a candidate for 3D printing...
Fantastic work by the way!
Brain was whirring at 5AM this morning about how to make them better and more practical, and was thinking about a small jig I could CNC out of resin - then wondered if it would be a candidate for 3D printing...
Fantastic work by the way![/QUOTE] this looks great . what would realy sell this effect is putting it in a hollow resin yellow ( vac form ) cover, so you see the light reflecting . That would make the rotation read better. lovely job .
Fantastic work by the way![/QUOTE] this looks great . what would realy sell this effect is putting it in a hollow resin yellow ( vac form ) cover, so you see the light reflecting . That would make the rotation read better. lovely job .
I think the main reason I started the job was to light it because I've got this empty stair well it would look great hanging in.
thankyou
You're very welcome! And thank you for the kind words. Wanna switch?
I couldn't just blow up the stickers from the 1/24 kit because they just wouldn't hold up. So I decided to draw them from scratch in illustrator, only problem was I could not find any of the fonts, So i took a deep breath and hand drew them all. I have had to use a bit of creative license on the window sticker as the only reference I have is blurry.
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Mike J.
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The Spinner decals use Microgramma a lot.
The guys at PropSummit might be able to help you out with reference material.
-MJ
The guys at PropSummit might be able to help you out with reference material.
-MJ
I had a bit of time to kill so thought it would be fun to design a mech for the wheel on the 6th scale spinner. I don't think theres any point in actually making it as its a static model but it was fun to see if I could do it with 1 servo . here a video of the mech https://youtu.be/1YG8bjKvqWg
That wheel movement is stunning!! Bravo!
I sudenly thought I should give you the dimensions of the lights just incase this thing ever gets of the ground. you never know. . Your video is fantastic at half the speed this would really work.
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Is the dotted dome in the side profile the hole in the lamp or is the whole thing hollow? If it's the hole, what's the diameter?
Been working on a couple of methods for getting 6 LEDsinto the unit which will give an even smoother effect...
Love the folding wheel!!
Been working on a couple of methods for getting 6 LEDsinto the unit which will give an even smoother effect...
Love the folding wheel!!
the dotted line is just to represent where the bulb would be the actual thing is going to be a .5mm vac form so theres quite a bit of room. The main problem will be how many wire will be needed . luckily all the wires on the set car are visible so wouldn't need to hide them.
OK That's not so bad then. There would need to be 5 wires for a 4-LED setup or 7 wires for 6. I'm using single core wire-wrap wire in my prototype which is very thin, you could twist all 5 into a single strand that's about 2mm dia.
2mm wouldn't look to out of place at all . This is really interesting when I get a set of lights out I'll send them to you if you like just to mess around with. It might be a wile before I start casting things out though.
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