Multi-layer Samurai with LED's

[RabidAlien]

Been playing around with some random cellphone wallpapers and various cliparts of grass and bamboo, to put together my first layered pattern.  Couldn't decide which samurai (layer 2) looked better, so I did both.  The bamboo/tall grass (layer 3) and short grass (layer 1) were a pain to cut, and I ended up doing a lot of on-the-fly adjustments since I didn't have a drill bit small enough to get some of the pilot holes for details that would've made the grass blades make more sense.  I tried to make sure that any sharp blades had a line that could be traced back into the lower regions, so there wouldn't be any grass tips poking out of another blade with no extra body to connect to the "ground".  These were fun cuts, though, for a week off of work.    1/4" BB ply from Lowes, four layers.  Layer 3 (bamboo) took probably a day and a half to cut on its own, cut the short grass (layer 1 in another half day, then the two samurai and the moon took about three hours total.  Layer's 1 (short grass), 3 (bamboo), and 4 (moon) were stack cut.  The two samurai were solo cut, but only had two interior cuts so those went really quick.  Layers 1, 2, and 3 were stained Minwax Honey, frame and layer 4 are Minwax Ebony.  White plastic sheeting over the moon was a protective cover for a laptop privacy filter that I saved after installing for a user.  LED strips wrapped around the inside of the frame came from Amazon for about $12...the red moon is a newer strip, it is multi-colored and cycles through the color spectrum.  Yellow-ish white LED's are single-color only.  Used Pegas #1MG blades for this one. 

[preprius]

These really cool.  LEDs add multi color without the paint.

The 2 bottom pics can indicate sunrise and moonrise after dark.

Or the bottom left can indicate a smokey sky from California fires.

 

anyway the layered scenes look excellent.

good job.

[Dak0ta52]

These turned out great. The added touch with the LEDs really sets them off. Excellent job.

[wombatie]

They are great, I especially like the first one.

Marg

[Loskoppie]

Yow lots of work but worthy it.  Love them all.

Barbara

[jr42]

very nice the lights look great

[daveww1]

awesome job

[Scrappile]

I like those,,, very nice!

[rjweb]

very nice work, I really like the first one, RJ 

[RabidAlien]

Pattern JPG's are posted below if anyone wants em.

 

[namunolie]

Fantastic job

[Denny Knappen]

Beautiful.  The LED really adds color.