Thank you

Agreed. That's really about the best place though

No, not at all. They actually stay quite cool.

The LEDs were are not bright enough to just put in the lower section and let shine upwards into the upper. The way I did it bounced the light around and contained it in a smaller space of the upper section allowing for better and more even lighting.

Fiber optic is certainly way more time consuming and difficult. The only advantage to fiber I guess, IMO, is it has a little more off axis viewing because of sticking out slightly from the kit. Even cutting flush, they're never really flush. It'd be extremely difficult to cut flush on this kit. It's so small and the little nooks where windows are located, i don't know how you'd cut them. I actually did do a test of fiber vs the way I did it, using 2 duplicate model pieces, and I honestly felt it looked better the way I did it.

@@modelsbychris One thing you could do with fiber optics is to "mushroom" the end of the fiber with a heat source and then pull it through the hole and glue it in. The mushroomed end gives great off-axis viewing even on .25mm fiber. Extra work, to be sure, but works well where you cannot reach the ends of the fiber with a cutter after installation. Great work! 👍

@@jayblanchard4477 I have done that as well a couple of times

Yes, you are correct.

I think it gives the illusion of flight. It looks really good!