Does anyone know of a source for lighting animations?

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I need two lighting animations and although I have seen these, I lost track of the resource.

I am looking for a campfire animation, as well as an arc welding animation. The arc welder will be in a building and may only include the erratic light bursts which would be viewed by the lights changing in teh windows of the building. If I opt to make the scene visible, I’ll use Artistta figures, so I don’t need a whole scene, just the mechanism to create the lighting effect.

Likewise the campfire, I have all the figures, I just need something to put in the ground and build a pit around.

I have used Miller Engineering (Lightworks USA) material and it is excellent, but they don’t seem to have anything applicable.

Any help will be appreciated.

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Try here…

http://www.ironpeng.com/ipe/

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thanks marty, but not quite what I was looking for. I know there a few outfits that make stuff like this - I would imagine someone will know.

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Frank :I have seen those same ones you mentioned on E-bay & they may be in one of my favorite sites !! I think they were buy it now. I’ll start looking & get back to you !!

Thanks, John

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Frank, Check out Town and Country Hobbies.

http://www.towncountryhobbies.com/

They have just the lamps to make these effects, I got some at York but haven’t used them yet. Saw the effects and they look realistic.

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That’s it. Town and Country.

I got a lighted bonfire with a boy sitting, looking at it, from them. Also got some blinking traffic lights and a neon - like sign.

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I think that’s it too !! None on ebay right now, just checked 40 pages !!

Thanks, John

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thanks for the effort gents - now to see it what I can do with it.

thank you again

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Welder effect

http://www.ironpeng.com/ipe/welder.mpg

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THis is teh site I was looking for - great stuff:

http://www.expressmodels.co.uk/acatalog/Scenic_Effects.html

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Cool site. Is the 4mm scale equivilent to O scale?

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I wish I knew! [banghead]

I think 6mm would be closer to 1/4 inch, but when I went to school, metric conversions weren’t exactly a hot topic.

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“Four-millimeter” scale is British OO. The scale is 1/76, a little larger than HO, but running on 16.5-millimeter track, the same as HO.

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Frank53

I ordered a fire sim circuit Model CFC1003 from Micro Magic Studios that I am well pleased with. I found it on EBay- search Model railroad - HO scale fire simulator. He just ended the free shipping sale and right now the item is not up- but I’m sure he’ll be posting again - you could email him. I tried to post a picture of my Hobo camp but I couldn’t get it to work - there are some pix on Ebay.

Lisa

Lisa

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I use a circuit with two LM555 timer ICs for simulating a flame. A thin coat of red permanent marker is on the lamp.

For simulating a welding arc, I use an old transistor AM/FM radio with a tiny 1.5 volt lamp connected to the headphone output using a headphone jack. Adjust the volume/tuning/AM or FM to get a suitable flash rate. I put a thin film of permanent blue marker on the lamp. I also hooked up a LM555 timer to have about a seven second flash and three seonds of no flash. This circuit is in line with one of the wires to the lamp. I suspect you could also use the radio for a camp fire flame. Experiment.

If you have a dam, waterfall or brook, use a transistor radio under the layout and set the radio in between channels on the FM band. You get a nice hiss (white noise). Again, experiment.

I built my own white noise generator with two ICs, a few capacitors, resistors and speaker. It puts out a nice hiss.

Cheers

rich