More hole-drilling.
Drilling the holes for the fan controls:
Here you can see how the knobs will be entrenched:
Lighting:
The effect was achieved using sheets like these:
Without a camera-flash:
With a carmera-flash:
The pictures are not an equitable representation of the polycarbonate sheet on its own, or when under light.
If I look too long at it I get a sense of vertigo, as the patterns seem to move and shift about in an unsettling manner.
I cut a strip, rolled it up and slid it into a 1" acrylic tube:
Then I experimented with different lighting colors and UV as well:
This is the type that I purchased from TAP (bottom of the page).
Here is another source.
I happened to see the rolls one day when I was at Tap Plastics, so I bought a linear-foot of each to play with.
...pretty neat stuff.
P.S.
Girface! ~ thanks for the M.E. info; much appreciated.
arekieh ~ Thanks for the well-wishes. So far there have been no calamities, but I still have a couple of tricky parts to get through; one of which is the gas strut placement and leverage.