You can build the best layout, but with bad light in the room you will never be able to get the full benefit of all your time and money spent.
Now if you live in an apartment there might not be a lot of things you can do to the lights, but if its your own house you can do something.
This is a subject that I have given a lot of thought, as I am a lazy bugger I don't always want to stand up to switch the room lights on and of while I'm running trains.
So I want to have a light switch, preferable a dimmer in my main control panel, but having 12Volts and 220Volts together is also not the best idea.
Come in modern technology and LED's.
I recently read on a German Train forum of a man that used waste pipe cut into strips coated with reflective material and then added 12v LED's strips and hung these from the ceiling.
So I purchased some material to try this for myself.
Still needs some work, but I will show some pics now and as I improve this I will update.
Bought a piece of waste pipe and cut it length wise into 5 equal strips.
Got some self adhesive reflective material, this is quite tricky to get into the curve nice and smoothly.
Here is a pic hanging from the ceiling from a few pieces of string just to try out.
I have a HO N3 diorama which I am using for this test.
Seemed a bit weak for me so try it a different way.
Removed the strip of LED's and suspended them to shine into the reflector.
Well that was even worse, plus I had stripy lighting to boot.
