Got the LED wired up inside the golems torso today!
This was also the hardest part of this project.
Holy hell, there have been a lot of hardest parts.
The problem here is that I’m trying to do really small detail work inside of a narrow area. I have both needlenose pliers and good tweezers and I used both, switching tools whenever I needed something strong or something agile, because you can’t have both! At one point I feared that I wasn’t going to be able to do it. I ended up pulling the LED out and using the tweezers to pull loops into the inside wires. Then I turned those loops so they were face up, and dropped the LED into the two loops. Then, I carefully tightened the loops around the LED leads.
Once I got the LED wired up, I tested it again.
Then I soldered it in. Also the hardest part. Here the challenge is to get the solder onto the wires with a hot iron, without letting the hot iron touch anything plastic. Inside of a plastic box. A narrow, plastic box.
After I got it soldered, I worried that the metal bits were to close together. I’m about to glue this thing inside, and I never get to touch it again. If the wires ever touch, I’ve created a short and I don’t get light anymore. So I went back and adjusted the solder and pulled the leads further apart and…
Now I have a light inside of a torso. 🙂 From here, it gets real simple – glue the rest of the golem together.
And don’t fuck up the paint job. >.< I have to sculpt icicles to cover the holes I made while drilling for wires, and paint those icicles. A fellow on A Wyrd Place used washes to provide contrast in the recesses of the transparent model and I think I might do that. Then I’m going to use the Secret Weapon snow mix on parts that might have snow.
Still a long way to go!
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