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Klingon D7 Battlecruiser "Klothos" with three lasers & running lights (pic heavy)
The Klingon D7 Battlecruiser "Klothos" with two 532nm 50mW DPSS lasers (representing the disruptors) & one 650nm 100mW laser in the photon torpedo bay, plus 22 LEDs making up the running & engine lights.
Sorry about the poor pics, I need to get a good camera and not rely on my phone camera anymore.
The switch on top of the base box in the front is the power for the lights and to the voltage regulator for the lasers. The LED harness runs off of 6v and the lasers 3v. So as you'll see below in the electrical box of the stand that I added is running off 4 D cell batteries and the voltage regulator is an LM1117T-3.3.
From the stand's rear you see the keyswitch I used to arm the lasers. The two red momentary press buttons run the left & right 532nm lasers that are in each engine pod. The black momentary switch runs the 650nm laser in the torpedo bay at the front of the ship.
Early construction
Running the harness and setting up the box.
All three lasers are inexpensive modules I got off of ebay for around $40 total. The model is the Revel 1/600 scale (about 17in long) Klingon D7 Battlecruiser. The is no light kit for this model so I had to build my own and fit it. I was hoping the 1/600 scale would be big enough to fit the green lasers inside the engine pods but that wasn't the case so the Dremel tool came out to fit them and the sealing done with putty. The torpedo bay 650nm laser fit rather nicely but the angle of the laser fired was totally determined by the shape of the front of the bridge.
The original stand is the triangle piece you see on top of the box I used, the post is not original either, it was flat and about the third the height so a fair amount of modification there where I used an aluminum pipe I found at Home Depot and I cut to the height I wanted and then used Milliput putty (after cuttung the holes) to make the pipe fittings for the model & base.
Until recently it had been nearly 35 years since I had built a plastic model so I first built a 1/1000 scale Enterprise NCC-1701 refit (from the 1979 movie) but that was too small to fit a laser but I did put a 16 LED light harness I built for it. It came out ok but is served it's purpose as modern practice in model building for me. Here it is in the distance under attack by the Klothos.
Next up I will be working on a 1/350 (nearly 3ft long) scale Polar lights USS Enterprise from the original series. It does have a light kit available and I have it (even has spinning lights for the front of the nacelles!). I will be putting in either one or two (depending on what I can fit) either 450nm or 462nm modules in the saucer section. Then you'll see the Enterprise reprisal on the Klingon!
I hope by the summer to get out to the dessert where I can get pics of this against the starry sky & mountains with lasers blazing!
The Klingon D7 Battlecruiser "Klothos" with two 532nm 50mW DPSS lasers (representing the disruptors) & one 650nm 100mW laser in the photon torpedo bay, plus 22 LEDs making up the running & engine lights.
Sorry about the poor pics, I need to get a good camera and not rely on my phone camera anymore.
The switch on top of the base box in the front is the power for the lights and to the voltage regulator for the lasers. The LED harness runs off of 6v and the lasers 3v. So as you'll see below in the electrical box of the stand that I added is running off 4 D cell batteries and the voltage regulator is an LM1117T-3.3.
From the stand's rear you see the keyswitch I used to arm the lasers. The two red momentary press buttons run the left & right 532nm lasers that are in each engine pod. The black momentary switch runs the 650nm laser in the torpedo bay at the front of the ship.
Early construction
Running the harness and setting up the box.
All three lasers are inexpensive modules I got off of ebay for around $40 total. The model is the Revel 1/600 scale (about 17in long) Klingon D7 Battlecruiser. The is no light kit for this model so I had to build my own and fit it. I was hoping the 1/600 scale would be big enough to fit the green lasers inside the engine pods but that wasn't the case so the Dremel tool came out to fit them and the sealing done with putty. The torpedo bay 650nm laser fit rather nicely but the angle of the laser fired was totally determined by the shape of the front of the bridge.
The original stand is the triangle piece you see on top of the box I used, the post is not original either, it was flat and about the third the height so a fair amount of modification there where I used an aluminum pipe I found at Home Depot and I cut to the height I wanted and then used Milliput putty (after cuttung the holes) to make the pipe fittings for the model & base.
Until recently it had been nearly 35 years since I had built a plastic model so I first built a 1/1000 scale Enterprise NCC-1701 refit (from the 1979 movie) but that was too small to fit a laser but I did put a 16 LED light harness I built for it. It came out ok but is served it's purpose as modern practice in model building for me. Here it is in the distance under attack by the Klothos.
Next up I will be working on a 1/350 (nearly 3ft long) scale Polar lights USS Enterprise from the original series. It does have a light kit available and I have it (even has spinning lights for the front of the nacelles!). I will be putting in either one or two (depending on what I can fit) either 450nm or 462nm modules in the saucer section. Then you'll see the Enterprise reprisal on the Klingon!
I hope by the summer to get out to the dessert where I can get pics of this against the starry sky & mountains with lasers blazing!
+5 for sure!
