All done except for some detail painting and such. But it's good enough to show off now. And to answer a question before it is asked. This is a permanent mod. It's set up to only ever been Soontir Fel. Personal choice, and I am happy with it.

Detail photos, showing how the battery and flasher circuit is hidden completely in the space under the base. Small magnet embedded in the base itself has the negative wire attached from above, and this one holds the battery in place. The bigger magnet has the positive wire attached from under the base, and holds the battery in place from the side. It works because of how coin cells are built: negative contact on top, positive on sides and bottom.

Still need to paint the peg/greenstuff, etc too.

Really clever, putting the battery in the base. Looks great!

Very awesome! Great job.

soon, he'll learn how to put actual lasers in that thing

I half expect, some time soon, I will see his ships floating on some kind of magnetic field...

Great job though

Scuse' my french but,

that's a fine ship you have there.

I half expect, some time soon, I will see his ships floating on some kind of magnetic field...

Great job though

It's actually possible. But it could only be for display purposes only and not playable.. It requires a base large enough to contain the right kind and size of electromagnets and that it be power by plugging into the mains.

But rest assured, I will be doing it at some point.

soon, he'll learn how to put actual lasers in that thing

:lol:

Brilliant work mate, **** impressive

Huh, mine doesn't seem to do that. Guess I should call up FFG and see about getting my lasers fixed.

I see Soontir upgraded to the TIE Pimpterceptor

I half expect, some time soon, I will see his ships floating on some kind of magnetic field...

Great job though

It's actually possible. But it could only be for display purposes only and not playable.. It requires a base large enough to contain the right kind and size of electromagnets and that it be power by plugging into the mains.

But rest assured, I will be doing it at some point.

Thanks for the close ups of the base.

Did you solder the wires to the magnets or use another way of attaching the wires?

Soontir Fel is a triggerhappy imperialist

Thanks for the close ups of the base.

Did you solder the wires to the magnets or use another way of attaching the wires?

The negative lead, which runs on top of the base but under the cardboard is soldered to the top of the small magnet. Since I decided to make this a permanent Soontir Interceptor (gluing the cardboard to the base itself once it was wired up), I cut out a small cavity in the cardboard token so I could use a generous blob of solder there to guarantee good contact.

For the positive lead, I filed out a small cavity in the plastic of the base to make enough room to have the lead balled up and make solid contact with the magnet once the magnet was glue in place. That gave me enough room to keep the magnet all the way inside the base so it would sit perfectly flat. I was afraid that a blob of solder, even a small one would be too this. My soldering skills are not the best. Hah!

I'm pretty stoked with how it turned out. Next project is to figure out how to do it so I can swap ships and base tokens. Hah!

I've tried soldering magnets before, but I always ended with really reduced magnet strength du to the heat. I guess since they are also glued it's not really an issue here.

I really want to try that now!

Yeah. With two magnets and the edges of the base to hold it in tight, magnet strength doesn't have to be super amazing for this, since the CR1220 is so light.

It looks like your wires will be puled when you insert id tokens - is that just the angle the photos taken at?

Another technical question : what size of fiber did you use?

0.75mm, 1mm or maybe some kind of weird fraction of an inch?

Another technical question : what size of fiber did you use?

0.75mm, 1mm or maybe some kind of weird fraction of an inch?

0.8mm

Got it from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006O6X74

It looks like your wires will be puled when you insert id tokens - is that just the angle the photos taken at?

There is plenty of room for tokens to be inserted, as I've channeled out the base for that.

But that said, why would I need them? There won't be another Soontir Fel like this on the table.

It looks like your wires will be puled when you insert id tokens - is that just the angle the photos taken at?

There is plenty of room for tokens to be inserted, as I've channeled out the base for that.

But that said, why would I need them? There won't be another Soontir Fel like this on the table.

There will if you start taking commissions!