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FT Topper Illumination experiment
« on: August 19, 2009, 01:32:26 PM »
Decided to clean-up the FT topper today, and replace bulbs. Struck me that blue globes may give a water glow, gotta be better than white anyway. Had some testors model paint in the shed, and thinned it down with turps prob 50/50 (to allow enough light through the bulb glass). Easy job to paint, held them upside-down in a peg (to aviod paint dripping on to the bulb's metal contacts). Yep I need a new bubble for my topper, but that can wait.

I think it looks ok:









IPDB pic of a normal FT topper:

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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2009, 01:34:58 PM »
Thats looks Great compared to the standard white.    Simple but effective WELL DONE  ^^^
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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2009, 01:47:07 PM »
Ok- its well documented that I am not a big fan of any machine toppers - but I must admit that looks pretty bloody good to be honest.

Nice difference from the original.

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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2009, 02:10:50 PM »
Ty guys, actually may get Wotto to put a topper on his FT  :lol

I cant wait till tonite to see the full effect, will take pics of course  ()
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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2009, 02:55:25 PM »
 It looks great....u dont realise how good a fishtales topper looks till u replace the globes with bright ones... cant wait to see the effect at night...

I will try putting different ones in mine and see how it turns out..thank u for the good idea..... ^^^

I reckon we shld start a "Topper thread" and everyone who likes toppers can post photos of theirs....good to get ideas from. yours looks great. ^^^
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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2009, 03:27:19 PM »
Quote from: caveoftreasures on August 19, 2009, 02:55:25 PM
It looks great....u dont realise how good a fishtales topper looks till u replace the globes with bright ones... cant wait to see the effect at night...

I will try putting different ones in mine and see how it turns out..thank u for the good idea..... ^^^

I reckon we shld start a "Topper thread" and everyone who likes toppers can post photos of theirs....good to get ideas from. yours looks great. ^^^

From memory there is a topper thread floating around here some place
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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2009, 03:40:26 PM »
much better, I light coloured globes and have even replaced the clear globes that have the silcon cover over them. In most cases the coloured globe looks better I reckon
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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2009, 05:33:56 PM »
Agree does look better than the white ones. ^^^
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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2009, 06:32:48 PM »
Nice work really makes a difference
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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2009, 06:35:12 PM »
Agreed!  I normally would go LED's for any lighting change - but in this case I think the softness if perfect and gives it a really nice aqua look!

Although an orange LED in the fish eye would look good!
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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2009, 07:56:51 PM »
Quote from: Extra Ball on August 19, 2009, 01:32:26 PM
Decided to clean-up the FT topper today, and replace bulbs. Struck me that blue globes may give a water glow, gotta be better than white anyway. Had some testors model paint in the shed, and thinned it down with turps prob 50/50 (to allow enough light through the bulb glass). Easy job to paint, held them upside-down in a peg (to aviod paint dripping on to the bulb's metal contacts). Yep I need a new bubble for my topper, but that can wait.

I think it looks ok:

Does look good! And I think we all know where you can get a new bubble...
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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2009, 09:12:55 PM »
Been waiting to take some night shots, and yep I am happy. Next job is LEDs in the PF ;)





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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2009, 09:33:15 PM »
Looks even better at night Great work
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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2009, 11:00:16 PM »
Great work Greg .

Will have to check out that FT on the way to RB's meet .
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Re: FT Topper Illumination experiment
« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2009, 11:25:09 PM »
Never even thought of that.Gotta say it looks cool.
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