Trench Sections in Progress.

[scottie3158]

Hi Andy,

Wishing you all the best with the upcoming book.

[Guest]

Andy,
Great to see more of your work, not to worry about the tutorials, just tell us when to book is out - and the title of course, got two sheep and a goat ready as payment.
Cheers, Mike.

[minitnkr]

I thought it was two sheep and a punch in the face. PaulE

[Guest]

I thought it was two sheep and a punch in the face. PaulE

No, two sheep and a goat, the punch in the face is when you ask for seconds.. Mike.

[JR]

:thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2: .

[Andy Belsey]

Most of my spare time is spent writing at the moment, but I have been tinkering with LEDs on my dugout. I had to Dremmel out some holes from behind in the confined spaces of the shell of the model. I removed the baseplate and had to use a flexi-drive to have any chance of getting in. Then I had to grind blindly, because the flexi-drive head blocked any view of what I was doing!! The first hole went well for the candle but I had a bit of a disaster where the lamp will be. A hole appeared in the wrong place!! Thankfully I have been able to move my dirty washing to cover the hole. I'm using strips of 12volt LED to light each section from above, so was keen to keep the voltage the same for internal lighting. You can unsolder one bulb from the strip if you're careful, but I chose to just tape off two bulbs with insulation tape and bend the last bulb round. The LEDs that are lighting the main sections are 'cool' bulbs for daylight, but I wanted 'warm' lights for the lamps.

The top strip has been taped off so only one bulb shows. The lemon yellow bulbs are 'cool' LEDs. The golden yellow bulbs are 'warm' bulbs.


I've trimmed off the end which can be soldered as I don't intend to add any more. I've then bent the end round 90 degrees.


Here are the bulbs in place. I have to filter them a little with some thin translucent acrylic. The lamps hide where the LEDs are.


I've now got to get the two figures painted!




This shot shows the strip of cool bulbs that will light the front of each section model. I moved my butterfly forward so he's on the front edge. The ground is rather close to the top of the box! I'm limited with the perameters of the series which limit what I can show. The boxes are all the same size except for two which are a little longer. Eight are 150mm long, two are 200mm.

[scottie3158]

Andy,
The lighting effect works very nicely brings an already superb scene to a whole new level.

[Guest]

Brilliant!!!!!

[JR]

Fantastic, just sets if off .

[Guest]

Awesome work Andy.:thumb2::thumb2:

[Andy Belsey]

Thanks guys!

[Peter Gillson]

Really great work.

[wotan]

Andrew

very well done sir. BTW if you want to dim or colour an LED you can just give it a dab of Tamiya clear paint, which comes in orange red, blue green etc, to achieve different effects. ALso you can run fibre optic strands if you want really small lights like a cigarette glow for instance. Fibre optics cost next to nothing.

John

[Steven000]

Nice progress Andy,
I love all the details your putting in your work :thumb2:

Cheers
Steven

[Neil Merryweather]

stonkin!