I am trying to figure out a lighting solution for my new train room.  It has a sloped ceiling, train room in finished room over garage.  It is a shelf layout along a 20 foot wall.  Because of the slop, use of a valance is not an option.  I was referencing Joe Fugate's editorial in December MRH.  I need 500 to 1000 LUX,  If I install track lighting in the slope it is about 1 meter from the train table.  The thing I don't know from Joe's article, what do they mean by angle, it has a big impact on the amount of lumens needed to get to say 750 LUX.

I am close to finishing my room build and knocked together some shelves to hold rolling stock projects. I am building a large staging area so this is meant to hold kits and repaint projects. I decided that building a case with sliding glass doors was a future project if I ever get that far

I took some white pine from my sawmill that i have been drying by my wood furnace

After planing, ripping and sanding I ran it through my small shaper with a 1" round over (bullnose bit)

I cut some angle brackets and screwed them through the back of the wall standard

I have some questions based upon various videos. Recently viewed a guy that used playground sand and coffee grounds mixed together. And the traditional white glue adhesive. What is a little confusing to me is where in the U.S. could such a color be? Ballast has too many options in color. And if one don't live in the exact vicinity of the area he/she wants to model, is there an accurate source? Google Earth don't get a close enough view.

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I need to supplement my room lighting, so I'm considering LED floodlights mounted on the ceiling joists in porcelain lamp holders. My thought would be to place them 2' apart and slightly back from the edge of the fascia to avoid shadows on the front edge.