[TUTORIAL] HG Geirail Head LED tutorial

Finally had some time for a new post. Here's another sort of tutorial/ guide on how to add LEDs on heads of HG kits. This time, it's the HG Geirail from the Iron Blooded Orphans anime.

Drill a hole on the "main" head frame. This is where I will be attaching the LED. Though the actual sensor of the MS is rectangular, I decided to go with just a small hole for simplicity and since there is still a piece that will diffuse the light.

For this I will be using white 0603 SMD LEDs, wires are 30AWG wires. Total radius of the wires will be 1mm. So I need a 1mm or bigger drill bit. I decided to use 1.2mm to give it a bit of clearance and so the wires don't get stuck in the holes. I mostly get them online since these stuff isn't available locally here where I live.

Once the part is drilled, its time to glue the LED in place.

Next we plan on how the wires will exit the head, towards the body. There's actually plenty of space in the HG Geirail for this.

Testing the LED after putting the head together. It's good practice to test if the LED after putting together a section of the kit. It would suck so bad if you just find out that the LED or wiring broke after putting the whole kit together.

Next would be passing the wires through the body, luckily, plenty of space here.

I decided to stop here, below the body since I still don't have a specific plan for this kit. I can continue passing the wires through to the feet to hide wires while standing display or anywhere where it will not be noticeable.

The red clear piece diffused the light really well giving a cool effect.