Custom vintage Star Wars Kenner Snowspeeder lights - Prototype - Toy Polloi
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- The first part of a custom project is always the prototype stage. This video covers me fitting a modern set of LED's into a vintage Kenner Snowspeeder. Check out how I got on.
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Everything u did here is a 100 times better then “The last Jedi” lol
I now have a simple solution to this that should of thought of at the time. I will cover this in the next video in this series.
i think the slightly off going blinking leds are quite effectfull. it´s more like shooting lasers.
Because the LEDs are so directional, I wonder if pointing them towards the light rirecting rod inside the snow speeder (forward) rather than up will give you brighter lasers. The original bulbs were probably not directional, like the LEDs are.
I liked the lazers going different times tbh 👍
Looking foward to seeing your solution! I wonder if there is more wire or other resistance between the battery and one LED than the other.
While your restorations are wonderful I really love it when you improve the original designs. Love the customizations. My suggestion on syncing them up would be to wire two regular non blinking red LEDs together and use a small capacitor in the circuit. Just my two cents. Thanks for all the great content/videos.
You should print out a small toy polloi logo and apply it to the bottom or back of your work to show it's a signature piece.
Can't wait to see the decals and final touches.
I do try to put a tp sticker inside when I fix a toy like this.
Nice soldering. I recommend a small fan when soldering, and even better a fan with a carbon filter. You can build it yourself. The result looks great.
One way I have handled the problem of out of sink blinking, is to wire two non blinking LEDs in series with a blinking LED. I covered the blinking one so it wouldn’t be seen, but that is now used to blink the others. Or you could use a microprocessor, that way you could adjust the blinking rate. However, a microprocessor is a little overkill for this, so just use a 555 timer ic. Much cheaper and smaller and easier than a processor. Keep up the awesome work.
I know I’m late to the party but I really think the out of synch lasers are fine!
Even the red bleed looks fine too.
And I must thank you, I enjoy your videos but I sold all my Star Wars recently ( was xcept my favorite figures and my Falcon, couldn’t part with those !) and I focus on aircraft models.
Now my 1/72 scale Vulcan is going to have lights!
Keep up the good work !
That turned out pretty nicely, looks very cool with the lights, nice job!
Looks great. Try lining the cockpit footwells with tinfoil. It'll reflect back into the cockpit and stop the light bleed.
i love the look of the bleedthrough
Looks really nice. Love to see the care put into old toys
Very cool upgrade. Should be able to fit a wave generator and piezo speaker in the other engine compartment where the motor was for improved sound FX. Thanks for sharing!
The lighting in the cockpit looks great to me. It's as if their targeting screens are lighting them up.
That video was outstanding!!! You made a great toy better.
I believe, 'in universe' as they say, the lasers can be fired one at a time or in unison. So your custom being out of sync shouldn't be a problem. ;)
Have a Merry Christmas and a great 2018!
+Terry Hooper Thanks Terry. And the same to you!
Huh, thats a neat way of stripping the cables, melting the plastic a little
awesome modifications, this speeder is looking better than an original one. i think u should install a sound module too, something tht sounds better than the original
Nice job! Really like it. Here's a suggestion...maybe you can find a star wars sound effect key chain that you can conceal and mount in the snow speeder somehow for sound (like pull the circuit board out)
That looks excellent!
Great work, I always loved the snow speeder as it was one of the only vehicles that was in scale with the figures
Interesting! I haven't really messed with LED lights before, so I'm always interested in watching someone else who knows what they are doing demonstrate how to do them. I'm looking forward to watching part 2 of this one, Dave
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Lol from your clip art for your video it looked like you painted the speeder “flat black” like the 1st order tie fighter but I see now it’s just a picture of the speeder with the light off lol I think you should do that , paint a snow speeder “flat gun metal black” with red trim it would look cool as hell
They called it a snow speeder but it’s actually a “light atmospheric fighter” that they use on many planets this is why they had to adapt the fighters to the cold on Hoth in the movie so it’s not actually a snow fighter but it is the only time we saw it in action
Exactly what I thought.
Then I thought, maybe as it was a custom this would stop the light bleeding through and look cool.🙂
When I light the inside of vehicles, I spray all non-visible parts of the inside of the shell with aluminium paint. No light bleeds through anywhere, and it distributes the light more evenly.
I didn't want to spray anything so I can change this in future. So tape will do for now. I have some other ideas I want to try on this model in future. But spray would certainly work best.
Glad that she'll I sent you came in handy, I recognise that damage on the landing gear, I was not sure if it could be saved, very nice work
Yeah, this was that very ship. It had some repro stickers on it that were a bit off, and the back was busted. So I stripped the hole thing back. The electric bits went into another in my box of snow speeders. This one will be ace when done.
Great work. I still haven't taken the plunge into installing my own lights into stuff but I really want to. Someday. Just need to watch you do it like a thousand more times.
+Toy Galaxy It's good fun, and really not that complicated to do. I'm sure I will do more of these videos as everyone seems to enjoy them. Just got to find some more battered old ships to work on :)
love watching your vids. they're always a joy to watch and learn from. adding extra lights to some the other fighters cockpits would be awesome too. and have a whole Night display .
That's awesome!! I want to try this!! To bad I'm not electronically proficient!! I don't think I could do it without really screwing up or destroying the snowspeeder but that really is such a nice addition to the snowspeeder! I love the white light in the cockpit not to mention the red lasers!! Who knows.... perhaps I'll try it! I've just never done anything like this before! Seems complicated to me but I'll try and follow what you've done and see how it goes!! Again.. such a wonderful video and such a wonderful way to enhance this toy!! Thanks!!
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An easy way to stop the light bleeding through would be to use some spray primer on the interior.
Can make a simple circuit with a transistor, capacitor and a few resisters that will work with normal leds and should make them blink at the same time. The problem with this circuit might be the difference in the length of wire creating more resistance.
Your thumbnail suggested to me you’d sprayed it black, I was a little disappointed you hadn’t in the end :(
But great video as usual
Awesome Video! Have a great Christmas Dave!
Cool project
I love your posts and I've a particular soft spot for your Star Wars restorations, have a great Christmas!
Looking good
All your hard work and passion always brightens my day.. Thank you, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours!
I’m still amazed by how you do this, I’ve been trying to do a cockpit that lights up its panel, not ready at all 😂 but still trying.
Great video and Merry Christmas 👍🏼🎄🎁
Nice mod! Would love to see cockpit graphics too! Thumbs up! :)
I did think about doing some stickers in the cockpit, but there is really not much space.
great work like always
I build star trek models and use led s for flashing beacon light on the ships, you can find info on you tube on how to build a circuit board using caps for timing the leds.
I think to get the leds to flash in sync, try wiring them in series together, rather than parallel.
Looking very cool so far Dave, i was going to suggest a way of sinking the LED's but i see in the comments you've already found a remedy! Looking forward to part 2!
Thanks. It was actually very simple to fix. But it makes for a good video when things go wrong :)
Merry Christmas to you and yours from Saranac Lake NY. Another great video. Not sure if you have covered this before but if not could you do a video walkthrough on how to solder electrical connections and or review simple toy electronic circuitry restoration? Cheers!
+Robert Drinkwine Thanks Robert, have a great time as well. I'll think about doing a video on that. Although I'm not an expert.
You should do a can this vintage figuer be saved on a power droid and stormtrooper
Nice job. You have inspired me to do the same!
Could you please do a restoration video on a vintage speeder bike? I have a speeder bike with the back flaps missing, and I know you have one with those flaps missing as well... It would help me out a lot! Thanks!
Curious, did you ever think about doing the lazers blue? Not really a big fan of red, but the inner cockpit light looks great, you remind me of me in some ways, you put lights in everything (i mean that as a compliment)
Good morning Sir , love all your videos and I am restoring my owns toys now
One question ..in your walkabout video of your toys please can you tell me how how you attached your ships to the wall ??
I am very short on space like yourself but have some cheeky wall space and they would great mounted ...kind Regards Richard
+Richard Crowe hi, thanks. Check out my video on displaying and hanging ships. Cheers
wow l love this
Great job, that looks awesome👍👍 l think it looks fine with the lights flashing 1 @ a time☺ those are quite the complete little light kit, how much do they run?? U.S.$$ can't wait to see it when it's done!!
+GALAXIE 67 The kits are about £5 or less. And I managed to fix the flashing, you'll see how in the next video. Very simple.
This ended up looking gorgeous! Is the flashing timing due to their place (order) in the circuit? No matter-- excellent mod.
Based on the thumbnail, I thought you were making a custom Imperial Snowspeeder.
I'm surprised you didn't use Any of the mini fiber optic kits from EBay
Can you drill holes through the ends of the guns so the red lights show at the tips?
Yesssssss!
Get a LED flasher circuit. They're small and cheap.
Looks cool! Now figure a way to make the turning flaps go up and down like in the movie! Ha ha ha. I mean, you could, but you've also got a life, so...
Toy Polloi, you probably already know, but check out Netflix: The Toys that made us
Nice Intro :D
Did a very similar mod after you inspired me with you’re slave 1 custom, though I removed the electric motor and used a very long and small diameter bolt to bridge the contacts in the original mount to switch on the gun lights circuit, took a bit of bending and tweaking but got it to work eventually, after a few seconds it goes out of sink like yours too, interested to see how you find a fix
+John B The fix is incredibly simple. I just couldn't think how to do it while filming this. You'll see the answer in the next part of this restoration.
i have a bossk figure that’s starting to lose color and yellow on his jumpsuit. how do i fix this?
Hi Dave did you come up with a solution for the lights becoming out of sync? I am currently working on a similar project using the original components to make the leds flash. One reason I thought of for the out of sync flashing could be the wires are different lengths. It could be that one signal is taking longer than the other to return. I will let you know how mine turns out!
It's all covered in the second video. I worked it out after I put this video up.
Is the pilot of this thing that you restored like cinnamon?
hi Dave just watched a video of the Leicester vintage toy shop.have you paid a visit ? it would make a good video you never know you could pick up a bargain
+David Lane I've chatted to them a few times. Nice guys. One day I will visit.
I like that they are out of sync, it looks like they are being fired individually
Those blink LEDs never will be in sync. Due to manufacturing tolerances even LEDs from same batch have different frequencies...
For synchronized blinking I'd use a small arduino (i.e. Arduino Nano), there you have - even with the easiest "blink" example - more control. You don't have to rely on those blink LEDs, just use standard red LED for it then.
+obelix You'll see how I fix it in the next video. It's really very simple. No need for anything complicated. I just had a brain fog on the day I filmed this.
ok - waiting for the solution you found... ;)
One easy solution I could think of is (if voltage is high enough) to wire one of those blink LEDs and one of the non blinking ones in series (you'd have to adjust the current limiting resistors then). From what I remember (can't test it atm since I ran out of those red blinking LEDs), the blink LEDs only conduct when in "on" state, which means the other LED will light up only when the blink LED is lit, making them blink synchronized...
Bingo!
Exactly what I was thinking!
On further thinking, they might actually work with no resistors at all. If I remember correctly most red LEDs will work fine on 4.5v which is what they would see if run in series.
What size of pitcher hook do you use for the slave 1?
+Dr. BYx Just a single nail one as the ships not very heavy.
What did you think of the dreaded film TLJ?
I enjoyed it for what it was. It had some duff bits, and was way to long. But it was watchable. There will only ever be three Star Wars movies for me. These are all just tinkering at the edges.
are c battery's scarce over there I buy them at the local dollar general 2 for a buck
It's a shame those lights didn't sink up.
+jack goff You'll see how I fix it in the next video. Very simple.
Well THEREs an intro that didn’t last
It gets used quite often. You obviously haven't watched enough of my videos 😂
Huh...really? Though to be fair, I tend to stick to what I know (I.e. Star Wars and Action Man) 🙂
Take a look at some of my Mego restoration videos. CHiPs and Starsky and Hutch. It was cool themed to go with those videos.