Corona Self-Isolation made me build a STAR DESTROYER
Okay - let's go the whole mile and then some...
Once the super-detailing was finished and I was able to test-assemble the whole damn thing, I realized how cool and accurate the correction of the proportions and the multitude of custom-built details turned out. I already rationalized why I didn’t want to light it up, but *beep* that – this model needs to be lit up, to make it look even more impressive, so I researched some lighting options and came upon a lighting kit produced by Greenstrawberry specifically for this model kit, and it comes with a programmed board which enables you to light up sections in sequence and even has effects for the engines to be fired up, flickering a bit until they glow bright end evenly. I pulled the trigger and I’m now expecting it to arrive in the next two or three weeks. In the meantime, I ordered 0.5mm fiberoptics, grabbed my electrical micro-driller and proceeded to carefully drill hundreds of tiny holes, as well as opening up the ‘light-gallery’ in the main hangar. In the following pictures, I placed a very bright LED under the model to give a hint of how it will look once the lighting kit is installed. Note, though, that once the fiberoptics are installed, all lights will be the same brightness. In the test images below, the light is shining through holes at different angles and with varying depth.
I also finished painting, panel-lining and panel-shading the upper half of the model, so that I could varnish it with a nice flat coat. It is now ready to receive fiberoptics…
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