12-18-2011, 01:52 PM
Aha! I found some photos I forgot to post back when I took them - part of another lighting test (I have a thread on flourescent colors elsewhere) for the shelf layout.
The shelf had OK light from the the overhead flourescents, but it had a more shadow than I liked towards the rear. Duncan McCree of Tam Valley Depot talked about surface mount LED's on Model Rail Radio show 22 (podcast) that he sourced on ebay from a seller called TOPBRIGHT. I decided to follow his lead (I have some additional details on the Model Rail Radio wiki: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://modelrailradio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Lighting">http://modelrailradio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Lighting</a><!-- m -->.) They're nice in this application. Low profile and throw off good light. These are warm white lights and cost about $35 per 5 meter roll (about 16 feet) - too expensive for extensive lighting, but perfect for this confined space. There are other colors available (blue, whiter whites, etc.), but I don't have experience with those.
I liked these well enough to order two additional rolls - partly because I had cannibalized part of my layout lighting to make a magic mirror for a school play (that was awesome - I'm still patting my back for that one!
).
Shelf layouts rock as a learning tool!
Ambient light only
![[Image: p723023736-4.jpg]](http://goodman312.zenfolio.com/img/s3/v41/p723023736-4.jpg)
Ambient light plus the LED's only
![[Image: p931402368-4.jpg]](http://goodman312.zenfolio.com/img/s11/v35/p931402368-4.jpg)
The shelf had OK light from the the overhead flourescents, but it had a more shadow than I liked towards the rear. Duncan McCree of Tam Valley Depot talked about surface mount LED's on Model Rail Radio show 22 (podcast) that he sourced on ebay from a seller called TOPBRIGHT. I decided to follow his lead (I have some additional details on the Model Rail Radio wiki: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://modelrailradio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Lighting">http://modelrailradio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Lighting</a><!-- m -->.) They're nice in this application. Low profile and throw off good light. These are warm white lights and cost about $35 per 5 meter roll (about 16 feet) - too expensive for extensive lighting, but perfect for this confined space. There are other colors available (blue, whiter whites, etc.), but I don't have experience with those.
I liked these well enough to order two additional rolls - partly because I had cannibalized part of my layout lighting to make a magic mirror for a school play (that was awesome - I'm still patting my back for that one!
). Shelf layouts rock as a learning tool!
Ambient light only
Ambient light plus the LED's only
Matt Goodman
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio