railsquid Posted May 27, 2016 Author Share Posted May 27, 2016 Like this, you mean? :D 5 Link to comment
Kabutoni Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Upper and lower floor separation as well I see! Not bad :3 Link to comment
railsquid Posted June 2, 2016 Author Share Posted June 2, 2016 The residents have been complaining about the floors and the decor though... Anyway: house-lighting by Rail Squid, on Flickr 1 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Nice! Need the dim flickering TV set only in the upper floor! You can cannibalize one of those led votive candles and solder on a cool white led for the warm white usually on them. The use a pot to further tone it down to get it to the watching tv in the dark effect! You are having fun with the lighting! Jeff Link to comment
Sascha Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Since I have never done this, I would like to know why the aluminum tape? From what I learned about lighting a building so far is that the inside of it should be painted black. Link to comment
cteno4 Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Aluminum tape is just a solid light sealer for cracks if you dont want to paint it black for light leaking. One issue with leaving the interior black though is that very few interiors are black and it affects how and the kind of light that comes out of the structure. It can really darken the building in the daylight with lights off. it will be different than real life. IMHO its better to give a final coat of white if you do paint it black. foil tapes can also give a funny sort of light/reflection as well. a lot of the light from spaces out the windows actually comes from reflected light from within the room and thats different than the direct light from the led. you can also effect the temperature of the color of the light by using colored sheets of construction paper or paint on the ceilings and floors. Also just reducing the current way down to leds in structures can actually take care of a lot of the light leakage and give a much more realistic lighting effect. most buildings are way over lit with leds running at full 20ma! then yes it will show thru plastic walls and need extensive sealing of all cracks and even the walls themselves. one simple crack sealer is the thick tee shirt paint. its a trick that a lot of other modelers use that do a lot of interior lighting. when lighting is done right its amazing the scene and effect it sets. a lot of it is not the actual lighting of the structure but the light it casts out into the scene around it which can then set up a really really cool effect and again grab the viewer's minds eye and make it even better in the viewer's mind and memory! cheers jeff 1 Link to comment
Sascha Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Thanks for the explanation. It's funny as how you usually don't think about things like that, and take it all for granted unless maybe if you are an architect or Model builder . Link to comment
railsquid Posted June 3, 2016 Author Share Posted June 3, 2016 The aluminium tape comes with the Tomytec lighting kits, without it, it's obvious you need it, or something like it. Need the dim flickering TV set only in the upper floor! You can cannibalize one of those led votive candles and solder on a cool white led for the warm white usually on them. The use a pot to further tone it down to get it to the watching tv in the dark effect!You are having fun with the lighting! Not sure if votive candles, led or not, are much available in these parts. Anyway there is some dimmer lighting upstairs as well :D rear-street-lighting-overview by Rail Squid, on Flickr I was planning to leave this kind of detail work until much later, but that corner of the layout will become much more inaccessible so better do it sooner rather than later. 6 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Excellent! the lighting is really looking nice with the various different bits! yeah ive found that lighting requires you get it done all at once as its a pain to keep tearing things up to add more, etc, especially if its in a more inaccessible place! might check the 100yen store for the battery powered candles. usually 2/$1 here at the dollar store. its just a coin cell a tiny circuit bit and a LED inside. you can hook it up to a 3v power source and throw a variable resistor in series with a new cool white smd led and get a nice small flicker that gives a great TV in the dark effect. warm white works with a tad of silicon glue on the led and a few swipes of orange and yellow paint to simulate a fire. cheers jeff 1 Link to comment
railsquid Posted June 5, 2016 Author Share Posted June 5, 2016 (edited) Now an open fire is definitely something you won't find in a Japanese house, unless it's winter and the kerosene heater fell over... Another shot: rear-street-lighting-overview-2 by Rail Squid, on Flickr Judging by the pale light on the hills in the background, must be just pre-dawn. (Hmm, three discrepancies/bloopers visible in that shot). Meanwhile the 5 modern houses to the rear are now almost connected to the grid, though that's not visible on the photo (I did briefly entertain the idea of running real electricity cables on the utility poles, but that's a little too fiddly). Edited June 5, 2016 by railsquid 2 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 (edited) True, but nice for an irori in a country home! Jeff Edited June 5, 2016 by cteno4 Link to comment
railsquid Posted June 8, 2016 Author Share Posted June 8, 2016 Car space - it is illuminated. carport-light by Rail Squid, on Flickr 6 Link to comment
railsquid Posted June 9, 2016 Author Share Posted June 9, 2016 kato-c44-9w by Rail Squid, on Flickr Depot staff wonder where this big stonking American diesel came from... 7 Link to comment
beakaboy Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 I think he is writing out a ticket for over width vehicle! 5 Link to comment
railsquid Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 Meanwhile, down in the big city, some urban development rapid prototyping is taking place. shinkansen-station-tram by Rail Squid, on Flickr 4 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 There's been a sale on new home row! Jeff Link to comment
railsquid Posted June 12, 2016 Author Share Posted June 12, 2016 It's amazing what the construction of a nearby Shinkansen station will do for the property market... Link to comment
tossedman Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 (edited) kato-c44-9w by Rail Squid, on Flickr Depot staff wonder where this big stonking American diesel came from... Looks like this fella's operating a remote control locomotive. Edited June 12, 2016 by tossedman 2 Link to comment
railsquid Posted June 12, 2016 Author Share Posted June 12, 2016 More prototyping. Ground-level local line on the opposite side of the "Shinkansen" station, tram and very wonky shotengai sign. ekimae-mockup by Rail Squid, on Flickr 2 Link to comment
railsquid Posted June 12, 2016 Author Share Posted June 12, 2016 JR 500系, admit it, it's the bus you like really :) 3 Link to comment
Eurostar25 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Any chance of an overhead view of the whole layout squid to see where the viaduct fits in? Really interested to see it coming along Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 JR 500系, admit it, it's the bus you like really :) Darn... caught red-handed.... Is that a Kyosho/ Popondetta diecast bus? I cant seem to find it from the Tomytec channel.... 1 Link to comment
railsquid Posted June 13, 2016 Author Share Posted June 13, 2016 Any chance of an overhead view of the whole layout squid to see where the viaduct fits in? Really interested to see it coming along I've taken it down already :P I'll need to stablize the baseboards before moving further, but I'll be sure to post updates :D For reference the layout will ultimately be "L" shaped, with the thinner part being the existing shelf layout, just visible in the upper left of the picture (there'll be a connecting line which runs behind the Shinkansen station). The larger part is approximately 300x90cm, 30x90cm of which is under the shelf layout; the viaduct will run around the edge, but won't be a true double-track loop as the inner track will be a folded dogbone, and to complicate things there'll be German and British zones too... Darn... caught red-handed.... Is that a Kyosho/ Popondetta diecast bus? I cant seem to find it from the Tomytec channel.... It's Kyosho. Raffle consolation prize from JAM 2014 IIRC. 1 Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Tada! I found it! https://www.kyosho.com/eng/products/diecast/detail.html?product_id=104969 Seems like my bus skills are not bad ~ :P Link to comment
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