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before i start my layout, im trying to figure out how i want to light it. i want a lot of lighting (e.g. several lights in most stuctures, street lamps, neons, chase lights, etc.) to increase realism. <br /> <br />im trying to plan for long-term efficiency and usage. As far as structure lights go, seems to me that the miniature bulbs (e.g. grain of wheat, tiny bulbs w/ bases, etc.) would tend to burn out after a while, especially if you do a lot of night and day sequences. I was thinking fiber optics might be best b/c i would think changing bulbs affixed inside structure would be really difficuly and tedious (and expensive)after the structure was attached to the layout. same goes for street lamps. <br /> <br />but with fiber optics, I could permenately set up lights like i wanted, run the optics underneath the layout, and then just use normal house bulbs to power the optics. this way frequent replacements would be cheap and easy to perform. <br /> <br />i know that with some applications (e.g. neons, chase lights, animations, etc.) I might have no choice but to use mini-bulbs, but it seems that it would be better to avoid them whereever possible--would be better in the long run I would think. <br /> <br />any thoughts? have any of you used fiber optics on your layout? <br /> <br />Thanks in advance <br />Chad
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