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vw - John Allen used the technique you described. He would fill in the windows of city buildings with black-light reactive papers, so they would all glow. The problem with this technique is that some paints are also black-light reactive. You might have something painted a nice, pleasing shade in regular light that glows like neon under a black-light. Kind of weird, unless you're modeling a nuclear power plant ;) I used to use a string of the larger X-mas bulbs - with all blue lights. It gave enough light to see generally what was going on, but was nice and "night-y", if you know what I mean. It gives a nice approximation of a night with a full moon. You could turn out ALL the lights and just use layout lights (building lights, streetlights, etc.) but that tends to be TOO dark. Rob
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