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LED installation question
Hey guys, got a quick question.
I'm planning on setting up a new body for my Arrma Senton and decided to do a law enforcement theme. Painting it black and then installing My TrickRC's LE package into it. The issue I'm running into is going to be the front head lights. I have flat surfaces in the grill for the front LED strobes and the back of the truck is of course flat for the break and back strobes... however the Arrma Senton body has some serious curves where the headlights go which means my headlight LEDs would be pointing out at angles rather than straight ahead. So I figure I have a few options- either go ahead and drill the holes straight into the body and try and use zap goo to push and set the LED's with a front facing orientation... which my issue there is I think it'll look pretty tacky. Second option would be to do light buckets on the inside of the body and leave the headlight spot open. I've watched a ton of vids online about either building your own buckets or buying after market ones. My concern in putting in buckets is them holding up to a bash or crash considering they'll be put together with zap or shoe goo also. I honestly don't plan on bashing this body since I'm dressing it up. It'll be more for show and go runs rather than bashing, so that may be a moot point. Does anyone have any thoughts on putting light buckets in... or have some tips? Did you leave the body clear for the light to shine through or did you put the headlight sticker on the body to "diffuse" the led light and make it look like a true headlight? I watched a vid where they put the sticker on the body and the light in a bucket behind the sticker and it gave it kinda a cool diffused look rather than that pin-point light that LED's sometimes look like... however it also made the light a lot less bright. I guess I'm looking for tips in any form on putting LED lights on a vehicle when putting them straight on the body isn't going to work well due to the body shape. |
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