How to Add Overhead LED Lighting to Your Model Railway or Diorama #8

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Hi Guys, In todays video I show you how I added professional quality lighting to my railway on a limited budget. I discuss different methods and techniques including lighting options, mounting choices and picking the correct Colour. I show you how I built a lighting rig using LED Strips and wired it all up to a power supply.
00:00 Intro and Considerations
04:00 Building a Support Structure
06:43 Installing LED Strips
10:14 Wiring
11:50 Test Install
13:49 Final Result and comparison
14:58 photos and outro
#modelrailway #modelrailroad #ledlights #hoscale #baseboards #00gauge #diorama #photography

Пікірлер: 16

@michaelricks1618 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting and helpful. Thanks so much for sharing.

@955trainboy 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic. Great new layout. Looking forward to seeing it progress. You have inspired me to try LED,s on my loft layout..

@HorsehayRailwayModeller 3 ай бұрын

In my opinion it's deffinately worth it. Would say the more light the better!

@brianbs7348 3 ай бұрын

your layout looks really good and the lighting is amazing.

@ModelRailwayShed 3 ай бұрын

Really good lighting rig nicely done.

@awrevilleogaugedieseldepot 3 ай бұрын

Have a look at CCT LED's which enable you to adjust the lighting from say 3000k to 6500k and dim. The LED strip has 2 chips on the strip

@HorsehayRailwayModeller 3 ай бұрын

Hi mate, had a look before purchasing the original set of leds in this video but couldn't find too much about the brightness. Do you know if they still have a similar light output to other strips for the same wattage?

@awrevilleogaugedieseldepot 3 ай бұрын

I use some from Ultra LED's, they are expensive compared to normal strips, they are 24v 19.2w per a metre and 1575 lumens meaning they are quite bright. It enables me to simulate early summer mornings through to late afternoon and if you dim them all the way down looks a bit like moon light. Nice layout by the way 👍

@_RandomPea 17 күн бұрын

Love to know what you would recommend for my layout... I literally have no room for these type of setups as im on a high shelf lol😂

@HorsehayRailwayModeller 16 күн бұрын

@@_RandomPea I'd say in your case mount some led strips direct to the silver foil in the roof. Possibly using hot glue to reinforce the sticky tape every few feet. I'd use one warm white and one cool white. Maybe have a look at Ron's trains n things lighting guide. He mounts led tubes direct to the ceiling.

@_RandomPea 16 күн бұрын

@@HorsehayRailwayModeller thanks David. The plan will be to eventually get that silver covered with board so that should make it easier to do. The other idea I was thinking of was having normal bulbs mounted in those angled bayonets along the roof supports, I could take power from the existing light fitting then which would be handy.

@HorsehayRailwayModeller 16 күн бұрын

@@_RandomPea if you've got 230v handy I'd deffo recommend some led tubes. Similar to the old halogen tubes but much cheaper to run and in alot of cases smaller and brighter. I've tried with bulbs before and it's hard to get an even light without using loads of bulbs.

@pim1234 9 күн бұрын

No links to the materials ?

@HorsehayRailwayModeller 8 күн бұрын

@@pim1234 Appologies, I always think shopping links make it feel like an advert. I'll look at adding some to the description later this evening if that's something people want though.

@pim1234 8 күн бұрын

@@HorsehayRailwayModeller I think it is always a great idea, otherwise I have to go and search for the stuff myself