The cloth that goes under Han to cover the trolley:
Han transported to the garage at the firestation, where we changed into our gear before walking in the National Day parade:
Close-ups of the panels attached:
Waiting to walk in the parade:
Strolling the streets of Trondheim (Nidaros) to the cheer of thousands of celebrating Norwegians:
Nearing the end of the parade, after walking for nearly an hour. And with the beautiful Nidaros Cathedral in the background:
A few shots back in the elevator at work:
Back up on the wall at work (before being covered with the plexiglass-frame/box), where he will hang indefinitely:
I'm very happy with the end result, although I always see stuff I want to do better.
The next time he'll get to catch some fresh air is at Trondheim Maker Faire this august.
I recieved the correct LEDs yesterday and proceded to solder the alternating flashing LED-circuit.
I used this tutorial as a base:
I prototyped the circuit on a breadboard first and added three more LEDs
in parallell to the LEDs already in the circuit as well as replacing
the capacitor with one with a higher value (330 microfarads) to get them
to blink at a slower rate.
I took my cue from Kurtyboy and his excellent thread detailing his superaccurate sidepanels: http://www.therpf.com/f79/my-han-carbonite-panel-upgrades-23-nov-2013-a-113003/
There he comments that we see one row of the LEDs during the short scene
(when Leia unfreezes Solo) and that only two are lit up, and don't
blink.
But considering their configuration it would be natural to assume that
they did blink, in some configuration, but that they maybe had a very
slow rate of change.
Either way I'd like to think so, and Kurtyboy said "I suppose it would
be neat to have them flashing alternatively but that's beyond me!", so I
took it upon myself to have that effect on my own panels, to make them a
microscopic bit more interesting to look at.
Anyways, here is the circuit on the breadboard:
I'm pretty sure there is a much easier way to do it, but that's the
configuration I ended up going for. That's how you get things done, just
choose something, and go for it. I could have sat around and thought
about it forever, but then it would never have been finished.
And here it is all soldered, the backside looks like mess, but it works!
A short clip right after I finished it:
And a longer clip after I installed an on/off pushbutton:
Now I just have to get everything secured, and I guess the next update will be of the panels mounted on HIC himself!
Had to cut off one row from the grill for it to fit:
Sprayed some parts "chrome":
And some parts silver/aluminum, grey and khaki (for the small nipples:
Went over the u-clips with a black wash, and a tad of rust-colored wash on some of the screws:
Drilled out a hole for the selectorswitch on the hero-panel and drilled out the knob and fastened it so it is functional:
Printed new dot-decals because the previous ones were too small and flawed:
Comparison with the old ones:
Transferred to a clear screen:
When I sealed the sheet with waterslide decals with clear laquer, some parts of the paper turned a yellowish hue. I tried a few of the decals out, and they weren't discolored and worked out fine.
The panels in their current state, not much left:
Sadly I had bought the wrong kind of rectangular yellow LEDs to go behind the screen on panel #2, and will have to wait (up to two weeks) for replacements before I can finish it.
