{"id":9725,"date":"2020-04-23T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=9725"},"modified":"2020-04-22T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T01:24:00","slug":"lighting-up-the-guijia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=9725","title":{"rendered":"Lighting Up The Guijia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With all the work now done on the Infinity Guijia Squadron model, I was able to show off the last little addition I made. With this biggest Yu Jing model in the game and TAGs being more of a centerpiece unit, I really wanted to make things stand out so in addition to the custom base topper, I also decided to build a custom base to house an LED and have the base light up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner to make custom bases to house things like LEDs but this mini was the catalyst and for a silly reason. This mini is an exclusive sculpt that was only around for a little bit last year and I picked it up online. The kit had the wrong base size and when I ordered the topper part, I realized I still needed a 55mm base. After thinking about ordering a set of bases online, I realized I could just print one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After checking out the topper kit, it has a little light sculpt that uses either a piece of orange acrylic or an MDF piece for actually painting the light. The acrylic piece gave me the idea that I could light things up instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I measured things out using a 5mm LED that Reese had given me last year and modeled the base with the battery compartment and wiring all in place. I modeled a little battery door and printed it up. Ironically, the part used only about $0.24 of material to make as opposed to buying a set of bases for $6.00 and paying shipping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The print came out great and the LED housing all worked perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next I tested it all out with the topper pieces. Thoroughly satisfied, I went on to paint the topper and get everything prepared for the mounting of the model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The model is full metal so it is quite heavy. I decided to pin the whole thing not only to the MDF topper part but all the way into the model. Had I really been thinking, I would have done a complete infill on the 3D print to help keep the pins in but ultimately it looks to have held well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After pinning the big guy on, I glued on the little acrylic light and the model was complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m pretty happy with how everything turned out. Colton said I should have made it with transistors to make it blink but too late. I totally would have if I’d thought of and built it into the base but it is done now and I don’t want to start tearing it up to try and make that effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doubt I’ll have use for the LED lit up at night but at least I’ll know that everyone will know right where this mini is at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This guy was a lot of fun to put all together and it was interesting to incorporate a lot of different items into this like the LED and custom base topper. Corvus Belli announced there will be a new TAG for Yu Jing but it will be one size smaller. I’ll have to see what the sculpt looks like and see what special options I can mess with to pimp it out as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all the work now done on the Infinity Guijia Squadron model, I was able to show off the last little addition I made. With this biggest Yu Jing model in the game and TAGs being more of a centerpiece unit, I really wanted to make things stand out so in addition to the custom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,783,9],"tags":[229,788,784,479,963,786],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-infinity","category-technique","tag-3d-printing","tag-corvus-belli","tag-infinity","tag-led","tag-tag","tag-yu-jing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9727,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions\/9727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}