Hello. As many of you I am collecting small models of airplanes (scale 1:500). i decided to build an airport for them. I wanted to make it as real as possible. I bought some staff like vehicles or signs, and build terminals and gates. However I want to build some lights to make it look cool in the night. Can somebody tell me where can I buy small lamps, what is the cost and how to connect them. I am interested in flashing lights and non-flashing.
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I built an airport and such, I have pictures here.
hope you enjoyed them and feel free to ask me any questions, as you saw I used 1:400 and thats it.
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If you're looking for lights, LEDs should be your best bet. In Toronto, go to Queen/Spadina area, and you'll find a few shops carrying this stuff. In particular, there's Supremetronic and Active Surplus
Connecting shouldn't be too hard, because all you need to do is just closing the circuit, but I'm not sure whether you can actually buy flashing LEDs.
If there are only normal LEDs but you want them to flash, you'll need a timer chip or microcontroller chip, which you have to do a bit of programming. I'm not sure whether you want to get into that though.
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Originally posted by avro_arrow_25206If you're looking for lights, LEDs should be your best bet. In Toronto, go to Queen/Spadina area, and you'll find a few shops carrying this stuff. In particular, there's Supremetronic and Active Surplus
Connecting shouldn't be too hard, because all you need to do is just closing the circuit, but I'm not sure whether you can actually buy flashing LEDs.
If there are only normal LEDs but you want them to flash, you'll need a timer chip or microcontroller chip, which you have to do a bit of programming. I'm not sure whether you want to get into that though.
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