RE: Large Skymaster Hawk build
This is going to have a full complement of lights. I'm hoping this will be something special. I've sourced some very powerful devices for this. Included will be the large landing light in the nose which will be made with a cluster of three high power white lights over 100000 MCD's worth. One retractable landing light in the nose wheel well, two strobes with a proper flash, flash , pause sequence and an alternating Anti collision light (not strictly scale but should look good). The Nav lights are very high power and also true colour lights unlike the low power mass produced LED's you see in your LMS. The only lights that are LED's are the strobes, Although I have someone purpose building the circuitry for these new high power lights to be used as strobes. It's all experimental atm so not sure what they will look like in the real world but they will at least be as good as anything else on the market.
All the lenses had to be made from scratch, I used the plunge molding technique, the pictures should explain things.
For the large landing light I've made a litho plate housing that slots into the nose. You can also see the start of the little retractable light I'm making. The pictures you see with the little landing light illuminated are taken in full sun with the camera flash on. If you look directly at these lights you get a nice white blob follow you around for hours, as I found out..........
Cheers, Alex