20230126 The Control Board

20230126 The Razor Crest Control Board

It took about 16 days (right through the Chinese New Year) for JLCPCB to process and deliver my design to me. And I am quite happy. However, looking at the boards, methinks there could be a possible version 3.0 Right now, this is version 2.0. There was no version 1.0 as the ULN2003 Darlington Pair […]

20230110 And it’s away!

20230110 And it’s away!

So, yeah, I’m getting very lazy this week. And the Main Board was confirmed more or less in a rush. It’s a challenge to save up and get a Revell Razor Crest at this point of time. In other words, I don’t think I am going to deal with the interior cargo bay for the […]

20230105 The Engines are done!

20230105 The Engines are done!

THE LEDS, THEY HAVE COME The Warm White LEDs arrived and as soon as I got back home, I started to solder them onto the PCB. The problem with ordering online is that it takes a average of 8 weeks to arrive. So, it was a great surprise that they came within 5 weeks.! 1.21 […]

20230104 Razor Crest Navigation Lights

20230104 Razor Crest Lighting: Navigation Lights

RED NAVIGATION LIGHTS One thing I did not realise until very much later is that the Razor Crest does have a set of red Navigation lights. There are no other Star Wars ships that I can think of which has these as standard. THE EXACT LOCATION I started to re-watch the Series and boy, there […]

20221231 There are…  four lights!

20221231 There are… four lights!

There is nothing much I can do as most of the components won’t be arriving until February. So, I tested my v3.0 board with whatever components I have for the time being. Right off the bat, I realised that I missed one crucial power rail and so, after some re-wiring, it worked. This also means […]