While watching, I thought of cutting a C-shaped or star-shaped "wire loom" out of thin sheet polystyrene and spot-gluing the tiny wires and LEDs to it, then gluing the "wire loom" into the model (or using velcro attachments), so that the modeler is working with a pre-assembled and tested lighting "assembly" of sorts that can be handled and installed into (and possible removed from) the model easily and reliably. This is a great build- thanks very much for sharing your hard work!
Just built and lit my 1:1000 Reliant. Used a lot of fiber optics. Unfortunately lost the strobes in the rear of the nacelles. So for the 1:1000 Enterprise I'm doing a lot of smds for the strobes and navs. Yours is coming along nicely.
While watching, I thought of cutting a C-shaped or star-shaped "wire loom" out of thin sheet polystyrene and spot-gluing the tiny wires and LEDs to it, then gluing the "wire loom" into the model (or using velcro attachments), so that the modeler is working with a pre-assembled and tested lighting "assembly" of sorts that can be handled and installed into (and possible removed from) the model easily and reliably. This is a great build- thanks very much for sharing your hard work!
Just built and lit my 1:1000 Reliant. Used a lot of fiber optics. Unfortunately lost the strobes in the rear of the nacelles. So for the 1:1000 Enterprise I'm doing a lot of smds for the strobes and navs. Yours is coming along nicely.