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

[@michaelricks1618]

Very interesting and helpful. Thanks so much for sharing.

[@955trainboy]

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

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

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

[@brianbs7348]

your layout looks really good and the lighting is amazing.

[@ModelRailwayShed]

Really good lighting rig nicely done.

[@_RandomPea]

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]

@@_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]

@@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]

@@_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.

[@awrevilleogaugedieseldepot]

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]

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]

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 👍

[@dannyvanstraelen3273]

interesting topic, I'm also in a building fase, may I ask how much space you have in-between your light and your track? Does that distance matter or is this just random? I assume you designed it that way that the observer sees the layout from a frontal slightly down ward position. Avoiding strait eye contact between the viewer and the led's them self. That's why for my layout, which is observed at track level upwards, the middel strip, will be visible. So I think I will only do the frontal light strips, but I loved how you placed them on a curved surface, and they're by covering the full 90° Of your layout.

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@dannyvanstraelen3273 I'll have to check later on my designs as I'm away at work but I think it's around 50 cm. And the layout is viewed looking slightly down so you can't see leds

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@dannyvanstraelen3273 I'll have to check later on my designs as I'm away at work but I think it's around 50 cm. And the layout is viewed looking slightly down so you can't see leds

[@pim1234]

No links to the materials ?

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@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]

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