BTTF 3 Hotwheels lighting project

Mar 20, 2025 12:05 PM

Rottenfish

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The finished car

Flux Capacitor added. 1 warm white led behind with fishing line to channel the light. The native american attack caused it to be a bit out of alignment, which is totally cannon....

I used thicker fishing line for the blue light channelling.

The headlights were initially too bright and overpowered the blue too much, so I added an extra resistor on their wiring lines.

I put a home made bridge rectifier, made with 4 diodes, inside, so it wouldn't matter the polarity and can also run of the kinda AC that DCC model railway power uses.

The guy that commissioned me, only wanted headlights and rear lights, but he was blown away with the extras I added for him. He's looking for more accurate railway wheels for this version of the time machine, if anyone knows of any please post below.

In the mean time I am recommending him to paint them matt black, as that is closer to what was in the film.

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6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Search AliExpress for "1/64th train wheels": https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-1%252F64-train-wheels.html?spm=a2g0o.home.search.0 - loads of choice and dirt cheap.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ty! I'll pass on the link to him.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0