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Another classic from Polar Lights, this is a great
rendition of the Jupiter II, and readily upgraded with
lighting effects.
Danger, Will Robinson!
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This is the bottom surface of the floor of the main deck.
From the profile, you'll notice that there isn't actually
anwhere for the lower deck to go - so nowhere to house the
galley that we see the family Robinson eating in, or for the
Pod or Chariot to be stored in!
The instrument panel is at the bottom, and I've punched
holes under the big viewscreens and filled them with
clearset resin. The instrument panel has been peppered with
fiber optic plugs, and a small silvered light chamber
powered with 3 white l.e.d.'s has been made. The central
Astronavigator console has a colour-changing l.e.d.
installed, and a small cylinder placed under the elevator
hatch - this will house a yellow l.e.d. to give the
impression of light shining up from below - there's actually
no room for anything though.
Upper deck room lights are 8 white l.e.d.'s over the4 bay
windows, so tht they can't be seen.
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Here are the tails for the 32 white l.e.d.'s that power
the star-drive, and the 555 timer that powers them. They are
arranged in 8 sequential groups of 4.
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Here's the outside of the base - these l.e.d.'s are
vovered by the clear part.
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I'm left with two groups of wires - one set of 6 for the
9V sequencer and one group of 5 for the practical
lights.
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Here's the completed inside, just before it's shut up for
good. Pity most of the detailing won't be seen!
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Here's one half of one leg, with a chanel dug out to
accomodate the wires, and the location of the plug that I
intend to install which will transfer power and allow
control of the lighting functions.
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Here's a complete leg. Two have been fitted with a 6-pin
mini-din plug to carry the wires. The third has a dummy
8-pin mini-din fitted, thus ensuring that the model can't be
pluged in incorrectly.
I always insist that my models can be detached from their
power supply base, and that the lighting should leave no
visible signs of presence other than a plug cast into an
inconspicuos part.
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Here's the base that accomodated the model. The sockets
were aligned by plugging the ship in, then inverting it,
then epoxying the sockets into place - they sit in holes
that were a loose fit to give a small ammount of movement
for perfect alignment.
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Here's the instrument panel....
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....and the starboard interior wall - note the
reel-to-reel tape reader on the back wall (yellow
circle)....
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....and the astrogator, with it's mini sequencing colour
l.e.d..........
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....and a nice shot of the whole thing.
The functions on the switches are (Lto R):
upper deck lights, lower deck lights, systems (control
panel), astrogator (colour sequencer) and on the red
push-buttons: astrodrive start/sequence changer, astrodrive
stop.
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I don't know how to do video yet, so in my usual fashion,
I just take pictures until I get what I want - here's the
rotating drive lights stopped mid-sweep.
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