Log cabin on a budget

[heda]

I've never attempted a roof like this before but as it turned out it was quite easy.
First the main roof on the left was cut oversize then trimmed down.
For the roof on the right I started with cereal box card oversize and cut roughly to shape, trimmed (hacked) it until it fitted then simply used it as a template for mounting card.
No working out of angles involved !
Dave

[GeraldH]

Cracking job and very individual. Nice to see

[Phred]

Looks great! The roof looks like it has a nice cover of snow.

[heda]

Some cut down coffee stirrers for fascia stuck along the edge of the roof. The chimney made simply from mounting card clad with offcuts of Slaters stone effect plasticard. I gave the roof a quick spray of white, some drifted onto the planking at the front which luckily looks good. All ready to have some snow added now.
Dave

[Dad-1]

Hi Heda,

You'll be wanting some Reindeer next.

Geoff T.

[heda]

The log cabin project completed using Woodland scenics snow, I'm quite pleased with it, just need to think of somewhere to put it now. I don't have space for another layout.
I bought five of the battery holders with switches on ebay for less than £5 with free postage, so apart from using odds and ends that I had laying around the cost was battery holder £1, skewers £1.50 a grand total of £2.50.
Dave

[End2end]

You'll be wanting some Reindeer next.
Geoff T.

I was thinking, very Christmassy looking.

How about a small independent cameo on a board heda? No layout needed.
Can we see it lit up?
Thanks
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[Phred]

Looks great!

just need to think of somewhere to put it now

Put it on Airbnb - you could make some money!

[Bufferstop]

Hi Heda,

You'll be wanting some Reindeer next.

Geoff T.

Preiser do a set of reindeer, I have some on my "Santa Special" diorama along with their "Santa Claus"

[heda]

On my Polar Express and current Christmas layout I used cheap cake decoration reindeer from ebay. I might build another Christmassy layout perhaps use the log cabin as Santa's house but it's not planned at the moment.

I like your thinking Phred but if I left it out of the fridge to long the snow would melt !

A couple of pictures of the cabin lit up, I need to run some acrylic into the joins to sort out the light bleed, in hindsight I should have lined the inside with thin card.
Dave

[End2end]

Even more snug and cozy looking with the lights on.

Just as an aside, do you remember discussing my simple flickering fire circuit?
https://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/F ... ering+fire
Just an idea.

Thanks
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[Lofty]

Tremendous

[heda]

Thank you for the encouraging comments.

E2E yes I remember it well, using your technique I have put a flickering fire in the village hall on my Canford Quay layout. I was thinking of putting one in the log cabin with a stone fireplace but thought with the windows being so small it wouldn't really show up.

Dave

[End2end]

An expanded idea I had on the original, was to conduct some experiments when thinking about the size of a fire / fireplace using different sizes of LED's whilst keeping to my 1KOHm resistor per LED standard practice.
The LED's I used were tiny 1.8mm to fit into a small fireplace and I always add a 1KOHm resistor to EACH LED.
You could perhaps reduce the resistance to make the LED's brighter, but I keep to a single layout-wide standard.

In the case of using the flickering tea light LED's, I placed the resistor in the circuit BEFORE the flickering tea light LED.
As thus...
Positive Wire - 1KOhm Resistor - FLIckeRINg LED - COLOURED LED - Negative Wire

For a larger fireplace / brighter glow perhaps trying 3mm or larger LED's? OR even doubling up some of the colours?

Roaring fire - One 5mm Yellow at the top, glued on top of two 3mm orange LED's that in turn are glued on top of two 3mm red LED's
Large fire - One 3mm Yellow at the top sat on two 1.8 mm orange LED's that sit on two 1.8mm red LED's
Wide fire - LED's stacked, 2 per row / colour. Same size on each 'level'.

Both orange LED's connected together with a flickering tea light LED so they flicker together, and both yellow LED's connected together with a flickering tea light LED so they flicker together.
Red static.

OR
One each of the orange and yellow LED's connected to a flickering tealight LED giving 2 orange/yellow pairs.

OR... any combination you see fit.
Thanks
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[Bufferstop]

Great idea E2E, the LEDs each flicker at their own random rate so you should get some really complex flame patterns from them. Put them round a cone of reflective foil then build a bonfire over them. Coarse electronics at their best.