A snapshot in time. A glimpse of the Plettenberger Kleinbahn in 1/22.5 scale.

[Bernhard]

I can only marvel at every post. This time I was particularly impressed by the basement lamp.

Bernhard

[Hydrostat]

Hello everyone,


I hope you're all okay out there in those crazy times. It's a bit hard to pretend that there's business as usual, but well, here we go.


For the shop window lighting, I wanted to use a directed light that only illuminates a specific area without illuminating the entire room, which also has its own ceiling lighting:




For two of the three large shop windows, I used LED rods that are inserted into a cut-open, opaque plastic tube.




Brass tubes into which the adjacent LED rod is soldered and which have an M1 thread at the opposite end serve as a detachable electrical connection. A small screw holds them in the handle bar holder, to which the actual power supply is invisibly soldered.




This allows the visible power lines to be indicated in a realistic manner.




The lines used to be attached with very rudimentary clamps or simple metal strips. This can be easily done with self-adhesive copper foil.




This is what it looks like during the day and at night:







The shadow is created by a shelf placed on the display surface, I might change that again later when the interior design is completed.

For the third, slightly more modern display window with a suspended ceiling, I chose a different variant made of individual lights.







The lamps consist of a machined part of a brass eyelet and attached hemispherical costume jewelry parts.





Cheers,
Volker