I finally got all the electronics installed on the motherboard, so i thought its about time to post a couple of pics of the complete setup.
On top of the grey baseplate (which was cut out of an old aluminum traffic sign) is a modified JT94 pack light kit mounted on top of a grid style pc board that holds some relays, timer circuits and a few connectors. I just used those 9V DC relays instead of getting DPDT buttons for the gun, thats why theyre there. The timer circuits are for the speed of the powercell lights and the white blinking light on top of the gun, i wanted to be able to control the speed of those via small potentiometers on the board.
Below that is a hyperdyne light kit for the gun and on the bottom is a small sound module on a grid style pcb. I bought the sound chip for only 10€ from an ebay seller in hongkong and it works perfectly. Cant really beat that price and this little thing just does the same as the actual "prop sound kits" , it plays a sound when you close a switch or button contact and has 5 inputs of that sort, plus a 1GB micro SD card where i can just put the sounds on and i can change them myself at any time. So i can play up to 5 sounds that i can exchange and im really happy with that
Ok, now on to the pics....sure its a lot of cables but i think it all looks pretty nice and clean now:
Between the sound chip and the speaker is a little 8W amplifier which was mounted between the upper LEDs for the cyclotron lights. The small amp and speaker dont look like much, but theyre pretty loud, louder than i would ever need them to be. You can also see how the cables go and how the loom is secured to the motherboard:
The next pic is for all the people who think the grid style boards suck and always look messy, unorganized and horrible on the underside
Another thing i did was giving the painting and weathering of the machined shockmount a shot. I think it turned out pretty good and ribs look like real aged brass now:
First i dulled the whole thing down with steel wool, especially the front plate, because i wanted to get rid of the "i was turned on a lathe" look. Then i masked the front and spayed the whole thing with golden spraypaint. After that dried for a day i did a washing with thinned down brown paint before adding very very small black marks all over the thing. Next step was dulling the ribs down with some brown pastel chalks out of my tamiya weathering kit. And as the final step i added some green paint particles to get that oxidized look between some of the ribs.
Now just for fun two more pics of the pack with different lighting:
I know i was supposed to take a few pictures of the fully lit gun and pack but im too lazy to do it today, lol....ill include them next time