This was a project that was simple enough: light up the tanks, keeping the batteries inside. So it would be lit up, yet still floating up on its flying base: no wires. That was the initial appeal. There was plenty of room for batteries, and you can see what I mean by the bonus of the simplicty of these GW vehicles: looking in through the back door, you can see its all open space.
I'm actually a little embarrassed by the uglyness of this wiring... hehe. But, there is a on/off switch (in the foreground) And the main splicepoint was an F-4 phantom style Donkey-dong sort of splice: all the wires are twisted together, then soldered into one connected glob. There are two wires moving to the top left, that dont go anywhere anymore. They used to go to a blue LED in the turret gun, but the bulb blew out or otherwise died over the years, so I disconnected it. The wires I used, BTW are transformer coil wires... teeny tiny, solid conductors, insulated with lamination. For this small stuff, I like this kind the best: they hold a shape, they are stripped by simply razorblade scraping it, and best to 'sneak' though parts of the model, and can simply be superglued in place.
Heres the Hammerhead in all its illuminated glory, all that remains: two headlights and a backlit cockpit window. (nice looking tank by the way, isnt it?? -for those of you unfamiliar with GW or 40k)
Back to the workings of the thing: This shows the battery pack, and the somewhat innerlit details of the interior. The power wires were left long so that the battery could be pulled out of the hull so I could replace the batteries.
Here it is all packed up. Plenty of room!
And here is the power switch in its hidden location. WOW the bottom of this model is ugly!! I never actually did finish painting the poor thang.. too much playing at the time.Well, that sums up my first Project. I learned a lot of things, and got better with the tools of this 'trade'.
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