With DL Matthy’s passing sometime in 17th November 2019, the Star Trek Modeling World has lost one of the great guys. Don provides lighting solution for most of the Star Trek Models with more accurate resin and clear parts. He was so popular that most of his orders were way behind and due to his […]
Category Archives: Scale Lighting
20240828 1/6th Proton Pack: Revision v004D has arrived
The Revision v004D has arrived just last week. And I’ve been putting this off for quite some time while I concentrate of the lighting for the Blade Runner Blaster. And this delayed excitement is driving me crazy. Of course I cannot just start soldering the moment I come home. I need to transfer the components […]
20240826 How to light the NCC-1701A Refit by Jennifer Petkus
Jennifer is one of my friends on Facebook and I found her when I was looking for reference to the Refit’s lighting. Her Website shows and gives you the reference to the Refit’s lighting and most importantly, their sequence. Although her interactive Flash has gone, you can download her notes and Arduino programming on the […]
20240811 Blade Runner Spinner: Delegation
The problem with connectors Ever since (the Jurassic Period?) I realised that the intended spring connectors have a very serious weakness, I opted to go with a more no nonsense ‘traditional’ screw terminals. Which is great except that it takes up much more space than the former terminals. I have spent the whole day trying […]
20240804 1/6th Proton Pack: Revision v004D
While waiting for the arrival of the PDK2019 Ghost Charger Board and some LiPo batteries, I re-started the Proton Pack project less I forget what I did the last time. With the microcontroller and most of the components plus LEDs soldered, it is time for me to move on to the software stage. Listen… you […]
