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Members Current Projects (WIP) / Re: 1/1400 AMT Enterprise-C
« Last post by MSgtUSAFRet on February 20, 2019, 07:52:45 am »Steve, loving it! Can you show some detail on how you light the deflector yet avoid leaks around the edges (since it looks like it is going in after final paint)?
I have this well thought-out, sure fire plan that will totally...uhm...make it easy to...not see any...uhm......light leaks around that...uhm...part...thingy...
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Do you?
I have an idea but I don't know how successful it will be.

I made a cone light box to focus and limit the blue LED light to just the deflector dish. I painted the deflector dish with primer and an overlay of paint and I am hoping that, in scraping the paint off the back of the deflector to allow adhesion of the dish to the hull, I won't overexpose the part and allow light from the secondary hull LEDs to bleed around the light box.
I will have to use PPP to fill the gap around the dish and the hull, which I am hoping will be minimal, and then use some touch up painting to hide the addition.
Whaddayathink?
Steve