First of all, congratulations on having the surgery. My son would be proud of you. It's amazing how an operation that used to take hours, with time in the hospital with great discomfort is now done in minutes as an out-patient. My son did 815 of them last year.
Nighthawks: Unfortunately, now that I've nailed down the lighting question, I will get back to working on the carrier and finish it. While it's comforting to have four projects running concurrently, it's not the way I like to work because I have the need to complete them. The rest of the Nighthawks build should go smoothly without too much drama... at least that's the plan. Clauswitz said that strategy ends the moment the first shot is fired. My experience tends to agree. Often simple projects that are supposed to be a piece of cake turn out to be the exact opposite. I won't get too complacent.
I'm still thinking about buying a 3D printer... and still concerned that the ones I can afford don't have the resolution to do O'scale work. I wish someone would make a serious cutting laser for around $500. The ones with any capacity are all over $1k.
