Thanks to all for your replies and interest.
steve131 wrote:Will the new nose cone fit the modification, will you use it

The 3D upgrades are designed to fit the origninal Nose Cone and with the parts that came with 21, they seem very good quality and hopefully not only will we get a very decent new nose cone, but also a retool on the upper sections that wasn't up to scratch. Obviously I will check out the new cone before I decide, but I will use it if it is an excellently produced.
tiking wrote:Very nicely detailed. I don't understand the lighteing system. It looks complicated just for lighting up the interior. Why so complex? I want to do something similiar but don't know how to. I thought it was just a matter of using one light source and lots of small fiber optics.
So far I've not fitted any lighting to the cockpit. The original parts simply make use of illuminating the back wall with a back light shining through the printed sticker. With regards to the 3D upgrades I was going to use fiber optics, but if I could simply shine a back light through the back wall, then there is no need for the fiber optics. The cockpit console had no holes for fiber optics, but a LED bulb shining though where the paint was scraped away was the easiest method. The side walls had no space between them and the tubing, so fiber optics would be useless as the fibers would need to be bent too tighter curve or even kinked to fit.
I'm hoping that a EL lamp or tape will fit in-between the wall and tube to illuminate the side walls. The two reasons for using fiber optics is to have the lighting source away from the actual area i.e.. for serving a blown bulb or not being able to fit a LED in the area to be lit up etc.. and for individually lighting up the bulbs to make them chase etc... With the cockpit, the bulbs can go directly behind where you want the light to show through and also when I've watch the movies, it appears that the lights were either on or off together not chasing individually.
In the above photos, I either had the natural sun light shining through the back wall or I held the cockpit up to my kitchen under unit light.
Manoverboard wrote:Hi Roy !
Nice work with the lighting array
clever Idea using "glass Paint" and clear "plastic sheet" now that is outside the "box" have a "P" from me mate !
Thank you Kim, but I don't need a "P" at this moment in time
Back to my build
Issue 19
The underside recess pipes were fitted together and painted.
RBTMFP1 Thur 21 May 15 1 by
Roy Lee, on Flickr
Another arch cushion made up and fitted to the second level corridor which I also used black ink to highlight the floor.
RBTMFP1 Thur 21 May 15 2 by
Roy Lee, on Flickr
RBTMFP1 Thur 21 May 15 3 by
Roy Lee, on Flickr
The big question here, have I've crossed the line with turning my movie prop into a model?
OK the original DeAgostini cockpit and console are not very detail or film set accurate, but the original parts are very much close to the actual movie prop.
So I've decided to purchase a second copy of issues 5&6 which contains a new cockpit tube and cockpit tube parts. I'm hoping that I'll be able to fix it so that I can change the cockpits over so that I can either have the original movie prop on display without any mods and no additional lighting or change it for my more detailed film set accurate cockpit complete with the additional lighting.
To be continued...