Miniature Proton Pack 2

I know I have a few projects up in the air, including the Millennium Falcon.  Which is really just a good weekend away from being done. But it's been over a year since I started working on the miniature proton pack.  Even longer since I first thought about it.  So this past week I put in a concentrated effort to make some headway into this project.

This is going to be mostly a picture post, but it'll show my progress.  For some specifics, i'm carving the main pieces out of balsa wood and will eventually coat with a thin plaster to make a mold out of.  The goal is to illuminate it with tine LEDs.  Specifically inside the Cyclotron and the Wand.

carving out the layers that will make up the cyclotron

Behold the mother board!

The Synchronous Generator

with Cyclotron and Clippard for spacing

The cut out for the lights to be placed in

Here is the crank generator painfully carved.  

And for now, the pieces loosely assembled to give you an idea of what it will look like.

I've clearly made some progress.  I still have some carving and actual creation of the booster and frame, the power cell (which I would like to light up as well, but might prove to be just too small) and the ion bar.  But you can get an idea of how it's going.  Once all the basic pieces are there I'll begin doing some real detail work, sand down some rough edges with very fine sand paper and begin to fully assemble.  The wand is going to be tricky due to its configuration.  I might forgo the usual mounting bracket for a magnet in order to save space and for durability's sake.