Quoted from grandy:To those of you who have done DIY lit-up Millennium Falcon mod for your Pro machines, can you describe or document what you used for lighting solution? I have the toy from the X-Wing game which looks frickin great - but struggling to find the right LED solution. Are you using a very tiny strip light, or is it a small LED inside of the toy cavity that lights some kind of "lens" that is inserted on the toy.
Also, if you have any advice on brackets for attaching to the game, let me know!
Any advice is much appreciated.
I have been using strip lighting for all my mods. Since they are much smaller than lamps, they are much easier to design into the models. They are easy to work with, too. On the "Ice World", I designed a small channel into the model and I only needed 4mm clear to get the light to mount directly into the center of the globe with the harness neatly coming through a round channel in the side.
I have one of the aftermarket Millenium Falcon mods for my pro, but the single metal bracket solution has caused a lot of leverage pressure on the mounting screw and it crumbled in the model and broke off :O - I am going to design a whole new two-bracket system that I will post on Thingiverse at some point, so it can be 3D printed.
