My banner LED strips are in the same place, connected to the same leads. Works great, and really adds to the aesthetic.

Painted the caps and added Comet Pinball light rings. I tried the amber ones first, but they're super orange, so I exchanged those for the warm white versions, which match really well.

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I answered your PM, but I'll post here for posterity as well. No, I didn't see any ghosting with the LED rings.

Also, they have potentiometer on them to adjust the brightness if needed. I keep them up at full brightness.

Finishing up the design on my own 3D printed JP gate. I traced still frames from the movie, so it's pretty close to the correct scale with some creative liberties taken in order to fit on the playfield.

I also took special care in the design to make it very easily printable, although ultimately I plan to make a mold and cast it out of urethane.

I'll just be statically mounting the gates.

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No, it's in multiple pieces for exactly the reason you mentioned, and yes, there are mortises in the pylons to locate the arch and give plenty of surface area for gluing. There are also separate brackets back behind the pylons that serve as the mounting points.

I played around with the Fusion 360 render settings a bit as well:

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What layer height would you recommend? Despite this being a model, I'm thinking 200um is plenty given this layout:

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Got my prototype gate test fit. Pretty happy with it! I need to enlarge the LED holes a tad, but I got the mounting just about perfect on the first try.

I'll print it all again separately so I can to a multicolor print on the center text. This prototype was printed at 100um, and took almost exactly 10 hours. Honestly, since it will be sanded and primered anyway, I don't think the 100um was worth it over the 150um, which was slated to take 6.5 hours. 50um was over 18 hours, which certainly isn't the longest I done, but I don't like leaving it alone overnight.

I also bought an airbrush system to step up my model painting game. I'll use a brush on the gate, since the brushstrokes simulate woodgrain, but the rest I'll airbrush.

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3mm flickering amber LEDs. I bought a bag of them online, but you can also scavenge 5mm flickering LEDs (and 3V lithium batteries!) from those dollar store LED tea lights.

While printing the final version of the gate parts today, I wired in this big guy. The Jeep is a Matchbox JP car I modified with LED headlights. I'll be replacing that clear shield the Jeep is sitting on there with a sculpted terrain piece that gives the Jeep a road to drive on. I'll use the flasher socket underneath there to power the headlights and add a spotlight on the T-rex.

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As promised, here is my completed Jurassic Park gate mod.

That's about 40 hours of work, including design from scratch, print time, paint-prep, and wiring (which was a royal PITA to feed through the posts).

Some people have asked about buying one, now that Tim's Mods seems to have abandoned their amazing JP gate. I'm still considering it. I have no problems posting the files on Thingiverse for others to use for free, but I'm not sure I want to through all that effort again to build a completed one.

I have a lot more images and short videos of the build process on my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortnerindustries/?hl=en

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