Would anyone in the group have views on my low-tech approach to illumination?
Here is the situation
- an Era V Swiss theme
- a 4' X 8' mdf baseboard
- a Roco GeoLine track with a standard Roco starter set DCC controller
- SBB HO (very roughly Interlaken Ost) and one day, an HOm extension (very roughly representing Lauterbrunnen or Grindelwald)
Here is the plan:
- a cutting / tunnel / hill or mountain side - preferably all of these features - predominantly made of what I call styrene foam- the stuff the trains are packaged in
- a rail track and vehicle road traversing this topography
- topography and sections of baseboard to be stocked with the usual Faller-genre buildings
It is these buildings (including a Faller Waldbrunn and a Faller St Niklaus) and perhaps some station / street sections that I wish to illuminate.
I have an aversion to fire and want to mke this very safe, very low-tech and very low voltage.
Ideally it would magically run off the extant 12 volt system governing the trains at present.
With no access to the underside of the board, any wiring will of necessity run on top of the baseboard, suitably camouflaged with terrain scenery.
I would appreciate your thoughts on the practicality or otherwise of this project and if practical, how best to set it up.
Thanks,
Michael
Here is the situation
- an Era V Swiss theme
- a 4' X 8' mdf baseboard
- a Roco GeoLine track with a standard Roco starter set DCC controller
- SBB HO (very roughly Interlaken Ost) and one day, an HOm extension (very roughly representing Lauterbrunnen or Grindelwald)
Here is the plan:
- a cutting / tunnel / hill or mountain side - preferably all of these features - predominantly made of what I call styrene foam- the stuff the trains are packaged in
- a rail track and vehicle road traversing this topography
- topography and sections of baseboard to be stocked with the usual Faller-genre buildings
It is these buildings (including a Faller Waldbrunn and a Faller St Niklaus) and perhaps some station / street sections that I wish to illuminate.
I have an aversion to fire and want to mke this very safe, very low-tech and very low voltage.
Ideally it would magically run off the extant 12 volt system governing the trains at present.
With no access to the underside of the board, any wiring will of necessity run on top of the baseboard, suitably camouflaged with terrain scenery.
I would appreciate your thoughts on the practicality or otherwise of this project and if practical, how best to set it up.
Thanks,
Michael