HO Exhibition Layout Build

Hi Everyone.

Just a quick update tonight. All the building and yard lights are wired up now. I'm thinking I might add a small led to the outside of the blue building just to light up the freight car spotted there.



Lights on (I'll have to take one with my good camera to show it off properly)

Ian

 

Gary wrote:

Thanks Gary. It is indeed a pig. My Dad got his hands on 2 of these pictures at least 25 years ago and they spent most of their life rolled up in a cardboard tube. Now I have one and Chris has the other.

Ian

 

SMR CHRIS wrote:

Thanks Chris. I'll give the ground level lighting some thought. I was initially thinking a small light over the small door.

Ian

 

paul_l wrote:

I did think about doing that originally but space is really at a premium. I am thinking of RGB LED strips for overall lighting though.

Ian

 

Hi Everyone!

I've been rather quite of late as most of my modeling effort has been going into rewiring a control panel and yard for a club N-scale layout - quite a job as the yard runs across 3 modules, points operate via diode matrix and it all has to be switchable from DC to DCC.

Anyway, back to the HO layout. The scenic work is just about done apart from painting chimneys and possibly fitting lights to one or both trucks.










I have RGB leds fitted above for night time running but it is really hard to get a good photo with them.

I'm really happy with how this project has turned out and I'm looking forward to taking some time to just 'play trains'.

I hope you have enjoyed following along with this build.

Ian

 

Thanks Chris and Gary. I must do something about the cross bucks - should be easy enough to make with some styrene.

Ian

 

SMR CHRIS wrote:

Thanks Chris. I'll get onto this soon.

Ian

 

Hi Everyone.

Well I made up some crossbucks and stop signs for the layout today and took a few more pics.
I hope you like to slideshow below.



Ian

 

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick update to show the truck that I have just finished fitting lights to. The tail lights are tiny surface mount lens white the headlights are done with 1.5 mm fibre optic filament run off an led in the back go the truck. I originally planned to use surface mount lens for the headlights but after I destroyed 4 leds, a friend gave me some optical fibre and this was much easier to work with. The tail lights are a little bright but I'm thinking I'll put a little person behind the truck holding up his hand like he is directing the driver to stop (I could put a bigger resistor on the lens but everything is so well covered in heat shrink that the figure seems like a better, more interesting idea). The next project it to glaze the windows - I have had a sheet of 'window grime' from Scalescenes printed on an overhead projector transparency so I hope I won't need to do too much interior detailing.

Until next time,

Ian

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