How to put Leds in your Necron Monolith

Here is my work in progress on how I am putting leds in my Necrons Monolith

Step 1: Prototyping

The idea behind leds was that they have to have a slow fade in and fade out effect. So we (lucky enough I have a friend who is good at electronics ^^ ) started with prototyping the breadboard. After a few trials and errors we made this:







We had a few problems with the led lights intensity. Because I painting my Necrons in the Black/Red/Silver color scheme I had to paint all transparent parts like Prysm and portals etc. This made the parts not transparent anymore so the leds had to be strong enough to shine through the paint and plastic. The led has to be RED because the white led shines a bit of the original green color through. All leds are 20mA and around 2V

After multuiple test leds with the light intensity of 1300 mcd were perfect for this project. Another aspect that was an issue is the angle. To make a soft glow effect on the portal I have chosen the led with the angle of 60°. Here you can see full specs of the leds I bought:

Prysm led



Portal led

I used a bit stronger led of 1560mcd to give it more glow



I used a bit stronger led of to give it more glow Back window led



All other leds in weapons, towers and exhausts Here you can see what the test prototype of the breadboard looked like:

Step 2: Soldering the board

Because we decided to put 13 leds in the Monolith (1-prysm, 1-Portal in front, 1-Window on the backsied, 4 leds for the weapons and 4 leds for the towers and 2 leds for exhausts) we had to make a few modifications to the circuit:

Added duplicate components for every led Put the jumper pins so it is easier to disconnect leds from the board if needed Added a small toggle swith (to be able to turn off and on the monolith) Here is the test for the portal (the leds were not positioned yet properly)



… to be continued