Today, I Have Mainly been Lighting............

[MDLR]

............... mostly on the two new bogie coaches, which now have their lights installed and working - roofs next!

The other project I made a start on was to adapt some 1:24 scale dolls' house "Tiffany" table lamps for LED illumination. I'd got some 3mm "bright white" LEDs and some heat shrink, so that one leg of the LED could be cut off short and soldered to the top of the metal lamp standard - the other leg was covered in heatshrink and passed through the drilled out hole down the middle of the lamp standard. Solder a wire to the bottom of the standard (which appears to be made of brass) and connect to a battery, and Bob's your uncle!




shows how the job was done - you can just see the red heatshink showing at the bottom of the lamp. As the lamp will be fixed down to a table, it'll all be hidden.


shows the lamp alight - it actually looks better than this!

[laalratty]

Brilliant, that will look fantastic in a first class compartment. Look forward to seeing some pics of the coaches

[bungle80a]

I just had a very strong feeling of deja vu! I swear I just read this word for word somewhere else! LOL! But this time there are pictures! (Darned egroup Digests!)

It looks an ingenious idea! Very nice!

[SillyBilly]

Lovely, and very classy.

[Hancockshire]

'Oooh that's nice'

[mhlr]

And that's for posting another pic of yourself!! Mwah ha ha ha harrrrr

[Dr. Bond of the DVLR]

now now pete what have we told you about using fire arms in th forum??

[Hancockshire]

now now pete what have we told you about using fire arms in th forum??

No-one shoots Hancockshire & lives to tell the tale

[mhlr]

     :angry5:                    

[Dr. Bond of the DVLR]

Pete stop your going to blow up the...
BOOOOM!