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First off, they finally put up pictures of the PG 00 Raiser. :)

Note: The images below are scaled down. Click on the image to see the bigger versions when applicable.

I finally got a few Action Bases (Celestial Being Version) a few days ago, and spent a little while painting one of them. This took way longer than had originally planned, but I think it turned out pretty nice.

And here’s everyone on their bases. You’ll notice that I need to paint the other two.

So today I decided that while I had a little time to kill between classes, I would finally light up my MG Exia.

At first I wanted to stick the LED into his GN Drive (this would effectively light his stomach), but the light didn’t really shine through the way I wanted to. So next I thought the head lighting up would be pretty cool. And it was, but unfortunately my LED wouldn’t really quite fit in:

So, I decided I’d mount the LED behind his head. The effect was still pretty good this way, and you can’t see the LED unless you look at his back:

So now I needed to wire the thing. My wire was pretty thick, which was an eyesore, but thankfully the wire was threaded, so I just separated the wire into threads:

The left me with very thin wire that you really can’t see unless you’re up close. Now I needed to power it somehow. Again, my original plan was to have everything inside the GN Drive inside Exia’s stomach but that didn’t work out. So what I did was I taped the batteries underneath the Action Base and ran the wire up the part where the clear stand goes into the base:

Then I had to hollow out a hole in the clear stand so that the wires could run up through it. I just used my X-Acto knife to do that. Here it is before I cut out the little tunnel:

Then I decided that to light up the body I’d just put another LED on the clear base. This is in parallel with the other LED. You can also see that I just ran the wire up the back the the clear stand:

So here he is lit:

Everything right now is set up in a pretty temporary state. I lent my soldering iron to a friend and need to get it back before I can make things more permanent.

Here’s some more pictures of all of them, I turned on the LED’s on OO Raiser as well. The one’s on him were built into the kit, I didn’t do anything special with him:

I’m pretty pleased with how everything turned out. What does everyone else think?

-Tony