(shrugs) My biggest adventure in lighting was setting up the hundred or so to do Trek-style 'self lit' lamps on the Wave Convoy trailer - which experience really inspired sticking to the default modeler camera lights and keeping my render setup as simple as possible. The stage lighting setup you mention isn't that far removed from what I've been doing - basically just different positions for the lamps - so I'll probably do something like that next time I'm fiddling with it. I'd kind of like to do landing gear, but that's a whole kettle of fiddly bits to fold it into the nose and upper legs and keep it reasonably toyworthy, which was one of the specific design goals - using modern toy tech it could probably be made as a 5-6 inch figure, doing it at the size of the original Valkyrie toys (or Jetfire) would be a cinch. I based minimum material thicknesses on my VF-25 transformable model kit, and the knee transformation is similar to the Studio HalfEye Perfect Variable VF-4 second run revision.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows