I added my own lighting to the LesDiy Clone Turbo Tank set

 

Hey brick fans!

Further to my latest review of the LesDiy Star Wars clone turbo tank, I decided to go a step further by adding some quickie lighting.  It's nothing substantial, just a couple of Led light strips attached to a battery box, which I had laying around.  I figured that since I added some transparent/translucent bricks to the windshield, it would look pretty cool to have some lighting.

Unfortunately, of the spare light strips I have, one is warm white and the other is cool white.  So they give off a different vibe depending on which end you view.  I'm preferring the warm white light at the moment.

The battery boxes use the CR2032 button batteries. I've placed them inside the storage bay with each providing lighting for one of the cockpits.

The cool white glows so brightly that it actually illuminates the storage bay as well.

Attaching the light strip is just simply attaching it to the underside of the roof panel.  

If I'm feeling ambitious in the future, I might get some LED dot lights for the exterior lighting and maybe even some accent lighting along the platform base.  But for now this will do.

Anyways, that's a wrap for this quickie post.  Bye for now!

I modified the lighting in the Cada C66006W Steamed Bun Shop

Hey brick fans!

Today I'm reviewing the lighting modifications I made to the Cada Steamed Bun shop.  Here's my initial review of it in case you haven't seen it before: https://bricksandfigs.blogspot.com/2022/06/cada-c66006-steamed-bun-shop-set-review.html.

Cada provides what are known as fairy lights to light up it's modular buildings.  In the pic above you can see that it is one long LED light string, connected to a USB plug with a blue button on it.  By pressing on the blue button, you can activate different modes to change the blinking or flashing of the lights.

In the case of the Cada Steamed bun shop, it utilized the same type of lighting to light up the interior, but what I wanted was to light up the exterior as well.  I wanted to light up the two lamps over the signage, add some lighting over the vending machine as well as the streetlamp.  That's something the fairy lights could not do.

Before tackling the lighting issue I made some further changes to the overall structure of the steamed bun shop: https://bricksandfigs.blogspot.com/2023/02/modifications-to-my-cada-japanese.html.   After I was happy with those changes, I then set about collecting all of the lighting elements I needed to replace the fairy lights.

In preparation for the new lighting install, I moved the street lamp from the rear of the building to the front.  In this way, I could run the new wiring to the front of the shop.

The lighting elements I used are as follows:

3 warm white led dot lights, one for the street lamp and two for the overhead lighting for the signage.

3 warm white led light strips, one to be placed over the vending machine and one on each interior floor of the shop.  I used a 6 port hub and a new USB plug which I placed inside the building.

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Each of the exterior lighting wires feed back inside the building.

The streetlamp wire comes inside and is connected to the upper floor led light strip. A connecting wire from the upper floor light strip runs down the wall and connects to the hub.  The vending machine led light strip connects to the first floor led light strip which is wired into the hub.  The overhead sign dot lights take up two more ports on the hub and the USB plug uses another one, leaving one free port.

Yes it looks kind of messy, I probably could have used some adhesive tape to attach the hub to a wall or ceiling.

Here is the back wall reattached to the shop. 

Alright, that's a quick look at the lighting changes I made to the Cada Steamed bun shop.  Please let me know what you think!

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Thanks for looking, bye!

This is not the new Lumibricks Skatepark 19011!

 

Hey brick fans!

Here are some pics of my Skatepark MOC which takes it's inspiration from the new Lumibricks Skatepark set 19011!  I've repurposed and incorporated parts from two Lumibricks Street Fusion sets: the Chili dog stand and the Grafitti bus stop.

I think the overall size might be the same as the Lumibricks Skatepark.  Mine sits on one and a half baseplates (48x32 studs) which has been raised up on a MILS plate.

I have seven studs at the front allocated to the sidewalk, so I can place a lot of street detailing there.

I have a big box of spare fixtures from which I grabbed a bench which I should have dusted off before picture taking.  The signpost is from the Lumibricks Chili Dog set.  The KFC sign is a fridge magnet that is attached to the fence using double sided tape.

The hotdog guy is telling skater girl to keep her distance.

Delores arrives at the skatepark but realizes she forgot her helmet.  Will they still let her skate?

A vending machine and ad for Bob's burgers are on the other side of the skatepark entrance.

The Lumibricks Chili Dog stand now occupies the corner of the skatepark.

Take the stairs up, grab a chili dog , help yourself to the condiments and skate down the ramp. Or if you're really good, skate down the stairs with chili dog in hand!  This section uses wall and window parts from the Lumibricks Grafitti bus stop.

Here's another window from the Grafitti bus stop.

The main feature wall is also from the Lumibricks Grafitti bus stop.

The half pipe and other orange ramps are from a clone of the  Lego skatepark 60364 set. I forget where the other set of tan coloured ramps is from.  Take the steps and then climb the ladder to take advantage of the great views of the entire skatepark from the lookout.

More skate pieces have been borrowed from the Lego Skatepark clone set.

I have managed to retain and reuse some of the lighting from the Lumibricks Chili Dog stand.

The small battery box in the upper corner controls the bright led lights mounted on the walls.

Thanks for checking out my MOC!

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