<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Well, I managed to press on! I found a short supply of fiber optics at the local hobby shop....not really worth the price for 12 inch strand, but what ever,.....I need to keep it going!</div>Doing this the Tamiya way could easily take a few hours or a majority of the day to get this right. The easiest method to get this done in a matter of 15 minutes or so is to assemble and mount the front head lights, then mount the LED housing. Now pull each strand one at a time to each designated LED. It's as easy at that for the front. The rear requires a slightly similar approach and a bit more tedious. Instead of the L shape as mentioned, a step shape or crank handle shape is necessary. Pull each strand one at a time to each designated LED, cut and leaving it in the housing as you move on to the next. Then finally glued it down. All in all, if done this way rather than doing as Tamiya instructed, you should be able to get this done (both front and back) in 30 minutes or less, minus headlight assembly.
And yes, they all work andalignedproperly. Just ran a led flashlight check into the housing and they all light up fairly bight. Only thing that could possibly keep the lights beinginconsistentis the LED not working.....fingers crossed on that!

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