Yeah, something went really wrong with your forum. I wish you good
luck to figure out what happened and that you find a solution.
Is
there just one good delivery firm? No matter which one you get your
package delivered, one day or another, you will get trouble.
I
usualy don´t type in Word and paste it in here. This was just a try to
get the message posted. I thought maybe there is something wrong with
formatting, so I copied it to Word and then back again. As you have
seen, it didn´t work.
Your
idea with the explosion lighting sounds like my older idea of putting
my DS9 in a box with a picture of the wormhole with a LED behind it, so
it looks like there is a wormhole floating. But I more like it, when the
model is visible from every angle and all around.
Once I have
seen a model with the old Enterprise and another ship. Between those was
an frosted acrylic rod, which was then lighted with an LED. This way
the whole beam was visible…..but the rod also.
Without a visible beam, I think the explosion animation would look weird and maybe too much like a toy.
I
have also thought about a LCD. But again, one side (broadside) will be
invisible for the viewers. That still would look great in a museum or
exhibition. But as a model for home….I think it is a bit over the top.
But,
I have thought about those tiny LCD for Arduino to build it in a
cockpit of other models. But there is no “easy” solution for playback a
video by using Arduino. Or maybe you know a bit more about it?!
You can buy those things, but it is expensive.
And this will possible drop your jaw again: