Smoothest Fine Detail Plastic
Product Description
Vintage style pentagonal wall-mounted lamps in HO scale (1:87), ready for installing nano LEDs, set of 40. Lamp dimensions: 4.56 mm wide (scale 15 inches) by 4.75 mm tall (scale 16 inches), hanging 6mm (scale 20.5 inches) out from the wall. These lamps can be used in British OO Scale as well.
These lamps are also perfect for a Halloween / witch house diorama, with its pentagon based design.
Assembly:
The lamps are sprued in a tree so they do not get misplaced or damaged in the manufacturing process. Use a sprue cutter or fine surgical blade to snip each lamp off the frame at the flush mount fitting. Each lamp stem has a 0.4 mm hole through it that may require some cleaning by hand with piano wire or a 0.3 to 0.4 mm dental drill bit, to remove any left over plastic or wax. The hole is wide enough to pass a pair of enameled wires ("magnet wire") of 32 to 36 gauge, to connect to the nano LED.
To make a realistic-looking bulb out of a nano LED, use warm white or amber LEDs of 0402 or 0603 size, and dip each LED in clear or preferably translucent glue, such as gorilla glue, after soldering the magnet wires to it. The glue should leave a somewhat globular drop around the LED, thus making it look like a classic light bulb once it dries. Pass the magnet wires through the stem of the lamp, such as to partially insert the LED into the lampshade. At the other end, hook the wires to your power source in series with an appropriate resistor.
The model arrives unpainted, in translucent Smooth Fine Detail plastic. For realism, it needs to be painted and a nano LED added, before installation into your model railroad layout or diorama.
These lamps are also perfect for a Halloween / witch house diorama, with its pentagon based design.
Assembly:
The lamps are sprued in a tree so they do not get misplaced or damaged in the manufacturing process. Use a sprue cutter or fine surgical blade to snip each lamp off the frame at the flush mount fitting. Each lamp stem has a 0.4 mm hole through it that may require some cleaning by hand with piano wire or a 0.3 to 0.4 mm dental drill bit, to remove any left over plastic or wax. The hole is wide enough to pass a pair of enameled wires ("magnet wire") of 32 to 36 gauge, to connect to the nano LED.
To make a realistic-looking bulb out of a nano LED, use warm white or amber LEDs of 0402 or 0603 size, and dip each LED in clear or preferably translucent glue, such as gorilla glue, after soldering the magnet wires to it. The glue should leave a somewhat globular drop around the LED, thus making it look like a classic light bulb once it dries. Pass the magnet wires through the stem of the lamp, such as to partially insert the LED into the lampshade. At the other end, hook the wires to your power source in series with an appropriate resistor.
The model arrives unpainted, in translucent Smooth Fine Detail plastic. For realism, it needs to be painted and a nano LED added, before installation into your model railroad layout or diorama.
Details
What's in the box:
Small Vintage Wall Lamp HO (x40)
Dimensions:
1.86 x 1.86 x 3.55 cm
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0.73 x 0.73 x 1.4 inches
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Rating:
Mature audiences only.
