Ummm...

THIS... CHANGES... EVERYTHING!

Looks like I have some lamp modeling to do!

indeed...

This is BRILLIANT work! 

More and more intricate

Hi Berhard,

Your lanterns are really great. This is perhaps the third or maybe even the fourth method I've seen written up about building HO scale lanterns, and I never cease to be amazed about how more and more intricate the designs can be. Yours are very good, and I especially like the ad hoc "turning" approach you present.

LedBaron of Germany sells a pre-wired 0401 white LED that I have a slight preference to the 0402 because it is so small and bright that it appears to emit light in every direction, where larger LEDs tend to have a "blind spot."

For a variation on use and placement, try mounting one of your lantern equipped figures on a PC tie with a resistor or current limiter. It's an idea that Laurie McLean had (see his youtube channel for many lantern applications https://www.youtube.com/user/scoopmmr). Or you can check this MRH article out using a current limiter too: http://www.scalemodelanimation.com/Articles/Points_of_Light.pdf .

Really neat ideas here! Have fun!   

Some additions

Thank you all for your honoring words and thank you Geoff for your hints and ideas.

First of all I would like to say many thanks to my friend Bill Gill in Connecticut for his help in writing this article because my English is not so good. I think that he made a well readable article from my manuscript.

It was some months ago that I sent the finished article to MRH staff and in the meantime I have built some more lanterns and documented the work in a second gallery on my website with English captions where the technology was slightly changed so that I reached a higher success quotient. I have written also some additional remarks about materials and technology avoiding errors and failures. Follow the link - http://us-modelsof1900.de/?p=12891.

One result were also my two brakemen with lanterns in their hands where the cables are inserted into the figures, invisibly as "electric" nerves.

The second figure is fixed on the platform of a caboose as a switchman - and Jeff, I did not go the way like the Australian modeler who changed the switchman to an animated one. I have mentioned his work in the article and added a link also to one of his Youtube videos however, this is not that what I would like to do in future. Your and my links show that we can do a lot more with superdetailing of figures. My preferred interest however are building of railroad cars and modifying of locomotives and so I'm not very interested to intensify this way of detailing. I have made some interesting experiences and I'm lucky to share these with you however now I'm writing two new articles with "my" themes in preparation and I hope for your interest again.

Well-played

... now to see about doing that in N scale!

Great article

A bit late with praise, but "ausgezeichnet" Bernhard.

Bernd

Thanks to all for your

Thanks to all for your honoring comments! Two more articles are in preparation.

Cross Reference Discussions

Was just directed to this great little discussion today, and thought it deserved to be cross referenced to a somewhat similar discussion I recently posted.

Animated Signalman Figure
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/animated-lighted-signalman-figure-12211442