I purchased a WS General Store new. It arrived and I went to mount it and noticed it didn't have any lights. I thought it was supposed to be lighted but I cannot remember where I ordered it from Does anyone know if the first generation model of the General Store came unlit?
I can add LEDs with no problem but I just want to know if I was cheated.
Replies sorted oldest to newest
Okay I feel much better now. I forgot to mention that I got the store for 50.00 shipped. I checked WS website and they have no listing for any unlighted structures so I guess these were early releases. Where did you place your lights inside?
RR,
I did this a few years ago. Pretty sure I poked a small hole in the tops of the backgrounds. This was just before LED lighting became the standard for buildings, so all I did was run a small bulb and socket. There are four of those old stick-on lamps that I had laying around and I connected them to the second floor window sections in each building, but they are of such poor quality it almost wasn't worth it.
The General Store pic is old and doesn't have the lights in it yet. The Harrison store shows you a nice effect. Getting a short LED strip to stick in there might be a lot harder to do, plus, you have to get it down to 4.5v.
Jerry
I also chop off those Faux green lamps in the front that should light up the store name sign with these led's too!
Believe the early Woodland Scenics buildings had printed interiors, though no illumination with the Menard's versions of them having no interiors at all. Sometime after Woodland Scenics began illuminating their newly released structures they must have begun adding lighting to all the earlier buildings which they were reproducing. IIRC this structure listed for $99 originally without lights, now it is $139.
Nice buildings either way.
prrhorseshoecurve posted:I also chop off those Faux green lamps in the front that should light up the store name sign with these led's too!
Did you replace them with similar LED ones and if you did where did you buy them.
I will add the flat mounted LED's to the interior and will try and find a source for the exterior lights.
Woodlands Senics offers a lighting kit for the first generation buildings which were unlit. It cost about $17.00.
Good thread. New stuff, good ideas...it will take me awhile to check out all those LED products and figure out how and where to put them on the layouts.
My General Store was lit! How odd!? ;-)
https://instagram.com/p/BHEMTtthTsi/
https://instagram.com/p/BIT8ARRBq9w/
Erik C Lindgren posted:My General Store was lit! How odd!? ;-)
Not fair to take pictures of real buildings Eric!
Prrhorseshoecurve, oh thank you for your reply! These lights are exactly what I need, and I didn't know they existed until just now. I've been using Walthers HO scale wall-mount lights but they don't work everywhere. I notice the seller offers several styles. I'm headed down to my layout room right now to see how many of each type I need, and get an order in.
Rradict2, Sorry but I don't understand your question above? The green outside structure "dummy" lights provided by the Mfg do not light metal lamp up at all. The link prewired that I provided gets you a metal shade and conduit with a nut at the end to secure the lamp to the structure as well as a prewired smd chip with a resistor at the one end.
For $17 you can get over 30 feet of led strips to make your own lighting and power them with 12vdc.
But John, your LEDs do not come with metal shades and a metal conduit for that outside structure lighting effect. Your method only works on the inside of the structure.
PRRHORSESHOECURVE,
You're right. I like your link and will try some.
Access to this requires an OGR Forum Supporting Membership
