Airbus A380 Light Positions

[DR_G]

I posted this on Yahoo answers without success. Can anyone help??

"I am building a 1/144 scale model A380 for my son, and I am going to install some coloured LEDs to represent navigation, landing and cabin lights. Does anyone have a diagram showing the exact locations? I guess there are red/green wingtip lights, dorsal and ventral red strobes, wing root landing lights, and others, but I want to know where to drill the tiny holes for the LED's. Landing gear will be up, so I'm not too botheres about wheel lights. Also, I was going to illuminate the cockpit in green, is this realistic?"

I know this much:

Top of fuselage : red strobe, (possibly double?)

Bottom of fuselage : red strobe

Leading edge wingtips : red / green

Winglet sides (extreme wingtip) : red/green (also white strobes?)

Wing roots (white landing lights)

Tailcone, 2 lights one above other (white & ??) strobe or fixed??

Any more info?

Also, is there a cheap/ easy way of obtaining and fitting fibreoptic cables to models?

Cheers,

Garth.

[Diggs]

I think I would look for a "Scale" thread. The folks here are great for setting up lights on a plane, but I don't think many care about the locations as long as it is easy to see at night. I would have to say the scratch build guys are more likely to have an answer for you on this.

GL
Diggs

[Ghost 2501]

though at night the cockpit would have colored LCD displays, they are generally shrouded from the windshield, as at night up in a plane, just as much as on a ship, you want as little interior light as possible to enable you to see what is outside.

one idea, paint a few windows black on the inside of the passenger cabin, thiough not all. that will give you the appearance of the shades being drawn

[Ghost 2501]

as for fibe optics, go to a novelty store and get one of those fibre optic tree thngies

[DR_G]

as for fibe optics, go to a novelty store and get one of those fibre optic tree thngies

Thanks for the advice!