Periscope finally installed….

Well, I did plan to have this done last weekend but…some of the best made plans…blah blah blah 😉

Anyway, Its finally done. The scope itself is from the resin kit that you can order from resin parts. Because of that great silver paint I can get here in Sweden you would never guess it was resin. The periscope crystal I made from a block of plexiglass actually. I just used my dremel and shaped it accordingly. I even shaped the smaller orange/amber crystal with the dremel. Thanks for the tip Chris. It only took an hour from start to finish. The lift mechanism works great and no issues except I never really planed to install a periscope so I didn’t leave much room but its in there, lol. I’ll plan better when I start on my next artoo. In all the hardest part was install the electronics. I think I have pretty small fingers but WOW…it was a very tight squeeze. All thats left for me to do with this is to clean up the wiring add a power cutoff switch for the periscope lighting and re-install the rear psi lighting. I had to remove it to fit it all in. I’m also going to give the dome a few new coats of silver and blue paint. It took a beating while I was working on the periscope. I have a new metal dome on order so this shouldn’t be a problem in the future. Anyway enjoy the short video and if I haven’t written about it just ask 😉