Instead of using a disc of thick card to build the saucer, I've cut a
thin strip of green card and glued it around the circumference. This
ensures that there is sufficient internal space for a green LED which
will hopefully penetrate the card and give a nice glow.
For this one I used pale green beads for the bussard collectors and I've
threaded filaments through them too. The almost finished Defiant looks
like this:-
The red wiring will be painted black, as will the fibre optics if they
start glowing green outside the nacelles. If you thought that my
previous efforts were small wait till ya get a load of this!
The Tholian webspinners have a crew of teeny, toty wee Tholians the size of atoms - lol.
Coming in at 4mm these are by far the smallest ships I've built. There's still a bit of touching up to do around the edges and then I'll
start them spinning. It'll just be gold thread this time as I can't see
any way of building up fibre optics that wouldn't be a totally
nightmare!
I used a circle of fairly thick card coloured black and glued thread at
10mm intervals horizontally. I then glued some more thread 10mm apart at
an angle with gold thread at the back of the Tholians and black thread
at the front:-
The excess thread was trimmed before everything was mounted. It's not
much to look at side-on - lol - but head-on it's not too shabby at all! The Enterprise is in the foreground with lit up bussard collectors:-
although the lights don't show up because of the camera flash! The
Tholians are in the mid-ground with the disc mounted vertically:-
The Defiant is mounted just in front of the starscape backdrop. I
managed to fit a second LED inside the secondary hull so that a more
even green glow was achieved:-
The final pic shows the red light better and the blurred Defiant better
shows the difference between the glowing hulls and the unlit nacelles:-
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