Tips and information about French shops, online buying, bargains, product reviews, price comparisonsArtificial light distortion is well known in the model railway world and goes back to fluorescent tube days.
People spend sometimes hundreds to get their model painted out with utmost accuracy and in the right colours - only for them to look extremely odd under artificial light. 4500-5500 daylight are about the best in that respect.
Mind you I know of one modeller who bathed his layout in pinks and blues. It was however supposed to be set in mid-winter with a snow covering across much of the area. Very effective it was too - but then the owner was the lighting manager at a local theatre, so he should have known his job.
https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/30222-hud ... ent-317833
Scroll down for that Christmassy feel
I only want to buy a light bulb!
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More X'Mas time, real day light, not HO modelling scale using 1:87, but 1:1 scale.
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I have a sort of box of spares - when I moved in I replaced all the horrible incandescent and 2700K bulbs with 5000K jobbies. When I move out I shall reverse the process.
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@RobertArthur
Actually 1:76 (very British and just don't ask why - very British covers it) but the layout was intended to give that crepuscular feel rather than middle of a bright day as in your picture. So that covers perhaps 08:30 - 10:30 and 15:00 - 18:00 for the North East of England. And on a grey day - which was common with iron furnaces blasting out their fumes - most of the day in between.
Actually 1:76 (very British and just don't ask why - very British covers it) but the layout was intended to give that crepuscular feel rather than middle of a bright day as in your picture. So that covers perhaps 08:30 - 10:30 and 15:00 - 18:00 for the North East of England. And on a grey day - which was common with iron furnaces blasting out their fumes - most of the day in between.
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RobertArthur
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@ exile, those rmweb pictures triggered that christmassy feel inside me, no doubt about it. Not having my railway set anymore, I sold everything at the age of fifteen to buy resistors, valves and transformers to build a real hi-fi amplifier, not a photo of my own let's dim the lights X-Mas set but a link to that Christmas worthy picture in the DM.