I have had this Acclamator in my stash for a little while now and figured it was time to give it a go. Here are the particulars: 1/2256 scale resin model mastered by Stefan Hacker (amazing modeler) and cast by JPG models. Here are the parts:
In the upper right is a 1/2256 Republic cruiser that I got to go along with it. It is planned to do this as a mid-clone wars Era ship. This will also be a lit model, which will be my second time doing this.
I hope you will all join me on this adventure as I will surely need I put and assistance as it progresses.
I did say I was planning on lighting this kit right? So starting with the engines,
They are well cast and have very good detail. However, they are solid and will require some engineering to light. I started buy cutting off the exhaust end using my handy razor saw.
Then I got to work cleaning out the grill. I did this by first drilling some holes to make it easier. Then I used my hobby knife to clean out each pie piece.
Then I drilled and cored out the rest of the engine.
So when I am ready I will be able to glue the grill back in place and insert a led in the other end. I will do the same process for the smaller engines.
Hi Gamera, they don’t really have to much screen time. They were in attack of the clones, the ships that delivered the Clones from Kamin to Geonosis and they are seen at the end of the movie lifting off from Coruscant showing the deployment of the clone troops. They are also seen in some of the clone wars cartoons.
Gamera, quite a few people think that. I don’t think they were really ever met to be a “ship of the line”. Not saying that they could not hold there own, but, they are more of a command and support ship for the ground troops.
I have a little bit of an update. I did the same thing to the smaller engines that I did with the larger ones.
Now I have to figure out how to get the wiring to the engines for the leds. The bottom of the hull is pretty solid so a lot of resin to get through.
I was thinking about drilling through the disc brakes and the grinding out a large-ish hole to set the wiring.
Thanks for the clarification, yeap that’s the impression that I got from the websites I looked it. More a troop transport and support vessel.
The work you’re doing on the engines look good. No idea on how to do the wiring. I thought maybe you could add the wires to the outside as part of the piping on the ship’s hull but she looks pretty sleek and smooth.
For the wiring I can see no other way than to carve out some channels. Its the only way it will look right, and IMO its totally worth it for what you have in mind.
Better get yourself some extra sanding drums for your dremel.
After great contemplation and wonderful advice from my fellow modelers I have drilled and ground the channels for wiring the engines. I had a nice four day weekend, unfortunately most of the time was spent painting the house. So, not much done on the Acclamator and no current pics to show. I plan on getting back at it during the week and will hopefully have something to show during this upcoming weekend.
Well I got some work done. I was able to drill through the engine mounts into the ship
Then I drilled from the top into the base and then cored the area out.
I am contemplating if I should make a trench into the open area in case I need to run any optics or wires. Now I have glued the inserts into the trenches.
Now I am drilling the holes for the fiber optics in the trenches. This process will take awhile, I am working with a pin vise which will be tiring and time consuming.
Well, not much to show for this weekend. I have about half of the trenches drilled for the fiber optics and I have some of the fiberoptics in place. Nothing really worthy of pics yet. Will post some when I start doing some lighting tests.
Yes, I got some work done. Over 140 holes drilled in the trenches for the fiber optics. That was tiring, monotonous and time consuming. I also went ahead and threaded the fiber optics into the top of the hull an glued them in place. I used .5 mm fiber optic mostly because my pin vise did not have any smaller bits (which I will need to purchase at a later date). Even at that the bit is still a little to big for the optics. Now it looks like a bowl of rice noodles, lol.
I am going to start on the lighting rig this week and hopefully make some sense of that rats nest.
