Does anybody have an idea of how to simulate an animated lighting bolt from a cloud on a backdrop?
Chad
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Check the OGR great layout Adventure Volume 7 and Terry Johnson's RR, he did it and explained it.
Google "side glow fiber optic cable". It comes in different diameters and you buy it by the foot. Then illuminate one end with a bright white LED or surplus camera flash module (modern cameras use LEDs rather than gas-discharge tubes) that occasionally flashes.
Sometime ago I saw a fellow's layout on Youtube which included a thunderstorm with lightning. Amazingly effective! I'm sorry to say I don't the name or site. Heck, I can't rember what I did yesterday.
Not sure this is what you are looking for but I thought it was pretty cool. I can just see some of these great layouts with these added cloud lights.
That is pretty good! Several of those and a lightning bolt made with fiber optic cable and you'd have a really nasty storm area.
I did a pretty fair job with a trio of cheap photo strobe lights, some cardboard tubing painted flat black inside and out, and "masks" cut from heavy construction paper.
Many years ago and far away... and in HO.
Originally Posted by dk122trains:
Check the OGR great layout Adventure Volume 7 and Terry Johnson's RR, he did it and explained it.
You can purchase that DVD here. Terry even has a tornado on the layout!
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
That is pretty good! Several of those and a lightning bolt made with fiber optic cable and you'd have a really nasty storm area.
Also being discussed on the Hi-rail forum....
In which I suggest a Van de Graaf generator and an ITT Products HQ500 sound module to supplement the big wad of flashy cotton.
Ah, well, ....reminds me of my favorite quote...
"There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly!" ....Kingman Brewster
KD
Originally Posted by dkdkrd:
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
That is pretty good! Several of those and a lightning bolt made with fiber optic cable and you'd have a really nasty storm area.
Also being discussed on the Hi-rail forum....
In which I suggest a Van de Graaf generator and an ITT Products HQ500 sound module to supplement the big wad of flashy cotton.
Ah, well, ....reminds me of my favorite quote...
"There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly!" ....Kingman Brewster
KD
Yeah! A van de Graaf generator. Ought to generate "realistic effects" on the electornics in Legacy and DCS locos, too, if you get too ambitious with it!!!
