Just purchased the Lionel Hard Rock Cafe building, what a great looking building…It has a guitar hanging on the front that they have made to look like neon lighted, and the interior is also great looking. It’s only six inchs high, I put it in between two nine inch high buildings in my city scene, parked a couple of Harleys next to it, it changed the whole street mood. I would highly recommend this building…thanks Lionel…tom
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Tom, the Hard Rock Cafe is a nice looking building. I’ve been thinking about getting one also. Been checking it out at my LHS.
Stan.
Sounds great!!! I’ll have to look around for one.
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Ok…here it is…
Retails for $49.99…now I got to go try to find one tomorrow!!![{(-_-)}]
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It is a nice looking building. I’ve been considering getting one myself.
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I bought mine from Trainworld in New York, $35.99 plus shipping, I paid a total of $43.00, I ordered on Saturday, had it Weds. Trainworld is great to buy from…tom
Nice building, but I’m more interested in the neon light (or the light looking like it…) Does anyone know how that is made? Is it a plastic tube with a led in it?
I’m looking for some way to get neon light for a Union station I’m building, it sais “Union station” in neon letters, and “travel by train” also in neon. I’m now jigsawing the letters from plexiglass and want to light them from the underside with small leds, but I doubt it will give the same effect as a neon sign…
daan There is a company that makes signs like the one you are making. They use EL (electro luminescent) panels. I’ll try to find more information for you.
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That would be Miller Engineering.
daan One of the companies is Miller Engineering http://www.microstru.com/
They have some really interesting signs. Some are just illuminated, and some are illuminated and animated.
Check out the “new releases” “animated signs” and “billboards” a lot of really neat signs. Also check out the “experimenters kit” EL panels and EL wire. I think you might be able to use these for the sign that you are making.
http://www.microstru.com/Experimenter-Kits.html
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Pennvalley Thanks, I hadn’t seen your post![:P] I’ve seen a few other companies make these but I can’t find anything right now.
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Those illuminated signs are awesome… Thanks for the link. Best of all is that I now know how they are made, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to find those illuminated boards in Holland. Even I have 2 of those in the odds and ends box, but they are green.
I’ve to find 2 orange ones and simply paint everything that doesn’t need to be lit, black. That way the letters will be fluorescent. The plexiglass letters will go upfront to give it 3 dimensions and are lit from behind by the fluorescent boards painted in the same color as the background…
Thanks!!
And I’ll have to find out how to get one of those signs on my layout somewhere…!
As have I but I haven’t quite gotten around to it yet.
We have a Hard Rock here in St. Louis, and love going to the real thing…wife saw it in the catalog, and said “let’s get that!” So…that’s our first bldg purchase
i have one on my carnival area of my layout. i bought this building the first day it came out at my hobbyshop, and i think it s a nice addition to my carnival area.
daan The signs they have are really great. I think the EL wire is interesting because you can use it to make script lettering and make contoured edge lighting like on the Hard Rock sign.
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I need to let things a bit crystall out here. I have a few ideas on the neon signs though…
@ underworld, is that a märklin engine in your avatar? Looks european to me. (in “fotoanstrich” = black, grey and white to make it appear better in photographs used to promote the engine. Märklin did make a few of those in model and they are pretty rare…)
daan:
I’ve used the miller engineering material and it works really fine. The fellows there are very helpful as well:
