Rear engine lights

This was not fun! I went through about 3 blades, so be careful! The plastic is tough and you have to bend the blade at an angle to cut out the rear supports holding the plastic engine cover on.

Keep slicing and scoring until eventually you will penetrate all the way through.

Once i finally had a clear section I wanted to try out the engine lights again. I still think they are maybe too bright and too blue. But I've had no attempt made to dim them yet. I will likely make a rear engine diffuser or use 10A chocolate blocks and make an engine with the lights behind.

LED lighting

So I've started on the LED lights. For a bit of accuracy and theatrical licence.. I've dotted them underneath for now. These are normal brightness.

Some are lights actually on the mold. Some are fixtures that ive drilled out..

Underneath done

They are fixed in place yet, this is just a mock up. I may get a PCB for a slower flash/pulse/fade yet.

I added the front two with some cheap flashing LEDs off ebay. They have a static or flash mode. 

There's loads of spare LEDs now. I will likely use a load of them to populate the fire optics that I will dot around the place.

Crafting the cockpit

Craft knife and hot water... That's the way to do it!! Very hard doing the curved sections of the nose, but it looks good and I haven't even  smoothed it down yet :-)