The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Hooking up the jiggawatts

And viola!

That was a little easier than I thought, actually. I got a nice new soldering iron for Christmas that behaves much better.

 

I left myself a lot of excess wire to work with which I simply tucked away under there. The switch is placed fairly simply - it's in a spot where it won't get toggled to 'on' by accident underneath the trukk's body, meaning the lights should not turn on in my transport case and burn themselves out. It's still accessible enough to toggle at will, though.

The batteries are located between the tracks and held into a tiny enclosure I made by scotch tape, so if they ever burn out I can grab 'em and replace 'em. The lights run off a pair of hearing aid batteries - you can get something like 10 for at Radio Shack, and I think they're something like 1.3v each. I never really pay attention to voltages, I just stack batteries until it works and resistors be damned. I never have the lights on for long periods of time anyway, just enough to show the occasional viewer.

Now I suppose I'll work on the cockpit.