The Millennium Falcon
Internal lights - Part two
Today’s entry is really just me tidying up what I did yesterday.
Bare lighting wire, wire clips and the now set solid hot glue are all primed black. Then various bits are painted to match in with the background as I see fit. A few more cables, made from off cuts of actual electrical wire, are glued in place strategically to hide and protect the more fragile copper wire of the led lights.
As the paints were already out the sides of the hull and too of the ship got a drybrushing of white,especially on any outside edges, to bring the overall colour of the ship to white/pale grey, while keeping the sepia in the recesses to create a really dirty look. I’ll probably be building up the intensity of the white gradually at the edges as time goes on by adding outer thin layer of white until I get to the colour I want.
In an ideal world it I owned a 3d printer I would be making loads of gribbly bits to add to the inside of the ship walls, as I don’t have access to that yet I will be keeping an eye out for suitable spare model parts I can add as and when I find them. The aim is to make the ship look chaotic and jury rigged, but without reducing the corridors or standing space for miniatures.
I’m not quite finished adding details and textures yet, but I ‘he got to the stage where the ship can be used in a game and look good.
Not a bad lighting set up for the grand cost of £2!
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