Fingerprints and Micro-controllers
Wow I can’t believe how much stuff I’ve gotten done over the past two days.
Arduino all assembled? Check.
Secondary hull painted? Double check.
Up next, I just have to cut out the rest of the windows on the secondary hull and do a few more paint details. Then do all of the decals on that section and THEN it’s saucer section time and finalizing the rest of the wiring the comes with all of that. But it’s really close to done!
So close I can taste it!
With any luck, and a little more shop time, the next video I’ll be posting will be a super duper pretty FINAL MODEL VIDEO! 7 months in the making, but I can’t tell you how happy I am with how all of this came out.
I’m so happy with my 1/350 1701-A, that it makes me really excited for the next model…whatever that model will be I have no idea. But it will be a lot smaller and something I can use fiber optics and battle damage, lol.
So stay tuned!
Glad to see you finally plucked up the courage to get started on this beast Doug!
I too was a bit concerned about the aluminum tape shorting things out (well, I will be when I evenually get round to tackling my big E), and have been experimenting with a second layer of tape (insulating this time) on top of the aluminum tape in the areas at risk – might be worth a try?
Going to be building the new PL TOS Enterprise? : )
Nice work so far btw.
Bernie
Hey Bernie! Thanks for the comment!
Ya the foil tape is pretty tricky. It reflects light amazingly and insulates your wires really well but if things get packed tightly, you’ll definitely start see some shorts like I was finding in my saucer. A trick I used was just using the wax paper from the backside of foil tape to kind of “sandwich” the problem areas. It’s a pretty simple trick but it took quite a few times tearing off the misbehaving foil tape to figure that one out, haha.
And ya I can’t wait for the 1/350 TOS Enterprise to get out into the wild. Did you sign up for the 1701 club too? It really looks amazing, especially because of the included lights and motors. No more headaches from Arduino coding! haha. Thanks again for all your help on that too btw!