2 Domes become 1!

I've taken the step and passed the point of no return... I've mated the Inner and Outer Domes together!

Yep, that's right. With the holoprojectors and mounts ready to be final installed, that means I've come to the point where it's time to mate the two domes together.

I had a bit a trouble with getting the Outer Dome to fit on top with all the holoprojectors installed, but figure it out when I realized I need to uninstall the front and rear ones, then install them after the domes have been mated together

I decided to just glue the Radar Eye to the dome because I couldn't get the screws to thread into the plastic mount like I was hoping. Instead of struggle with it until I was going to break something, decided to just take the easy way out. Also noticed the PSI mounts, they pop out nice!

After everything is fit up nice and snug, I moved on to mounting the LED light boards into the mounts I had previously installed. The dome is definitely starting to populate now.

All the light boards already have mounting holes on them, so all I had to do was screw them into the mounts installed on the dome. Pretty simple, just drilled a few holes and screwed in a few fasteners. Once I have everything final installed I'll be cleaning up the wiring a bit.

Now with that out of the way, I moved on to the PSIs. Currently there are just open holes in the dome for the front and rear PSI ports/ If you pay close attention, you'll notice in the movies that they are actually opaque and have a milky transparency sheet covering the opening.

So I did some research and didn't find much. I decided to head to the local Target and try to get some inspiration. I walked the ENTIRE store, looking in the office section and arts and crafts section for a semi-transparent sheet that I could use. Nothing.

...Until I made my final stop at the culinary section. Right away I spotted some cheap cutting sheets, and found exactly what I was looking for!

The blue part is a 3d printed mount I created to attache the PVC light board holders for the PSIs to the dome. So I traced out the size of the mounts on to the cutting sheets and went to work with the scissors. Got my 2 cutouts that I needed and proceed to get them glued up to the dome.

These should be perfect for when I install the PSI lights, as they will now be a bit more blurry when seen from the outside, instead of the individual LEDs. It should turn out pretty nicely.

LOOK INTO MY EYE!!!

Next week I will be installing the PSI mounts to the dome and getting the lighting effects all wrapped up.