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General => Trains! => Topic started by: Marco_4124 on February 16, 2014, 17:19:52
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Updating passenger car 4100
At the moment I am cleaning and updating a Playmobil 4100 passenger car that I found at the trainfair in Houten (quite famous in The Netherlands).
Making lights into the passenger car.
(http://s8.postimg.org/8z3q1i7rp/DSCN9863_Digirails.jpg)
After cleaning the roof I placed a LED strip on the inside of the roof. The LED strip is hold in place by double sided adhesive tape. You can also glue the LED strip in place, but with double sided adhesive tape you don’t damage the roof. I am using LED strips from Digirails (http://www.digirails.com/dr100-inbouwset-zittende-figuren-geel-342.html), that can be make shorter if needed. But you can also use any other LED strip. The LED strip is powered by the LGB Stainz 2 locomotive, that has a power connection at the back of the train. Otherwise you have to make a connection for a 9 volt battery, and place that in the passenger car.
Making windows in the passenger car.
The Playmobil 4100 has no windows. This I found a little too simple in comparison with my LGB passenger cars. I came up with this solution:
(http://s17.postimg.org/ujudeev8v/DSCN9866_Windows_Step_1.jpg)
1) Remove the chairs and the luggage racks in the passenger wagon.
(http://s29.postimg.org/hgp81gy0n/DSCN9867_Windows_Step_2.jpg)
2) Cut a piece of transparent plastic exactly to 158 by 76 mm. Be very precise! In the picture I used a sheet of white paper, to make it better visible. Place the sheet of transparent plastic inside the passenger wagon in front of the windows.
(http://s10.postimg.org/xvmifvih5/DSCN9868_Windows_Step_3.jpg)
3) Put the chairs and luggage racks back in place. The chairs and luggage racks will hold the piece of transparent plastic in place. You don’t need to glue the sheet of transparant plastic. In this way, if the window is damaged, it can be easily replaced.
(http://s28.postimg.org/8or1slaul/DSCN9865_Windows_Step_4.jpg)
The result, but now with a piece of transparent plastic in the picture.
Metal wheels
If you run on metal (LGB) rails, you might prefer to remove the plastic wheels and replace them by metal wheels. I can recommend Liliput L999300.
Don’t do this if you use plastic rails, you might damage them.
(http://s23.postimg.org/ajybfrcrf/DSCN9870_Playmobil_4100.jpg)
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Nice Idea with the transparent windows!
And now we need some pictures in darkness to see the light...
And also you need doors, which can be opened... ;O)
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That's neat! Thank you for the 'how-to'. I'm curious about the lights too.
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I've been thinking of glazing the windows in some of my Playmobil coaches, and your method is better than my idea of a strip of plastic a bit longer and a bit deeper than the windows glued in place.
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That's neat! Thank you for the 'how-to'. I'm curious about the lights too.
And this is the passenger coach at night:
(http://s27.postimg.org/vus8kwrvn/DSCN9873_Wagenverlichting.jpg)
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How thick is the transparent plastic (0,5 mm or thinner?)?
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It was a piece of transparant plastic I use at work. I have to measure it up.
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It looks very good lit up.
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It does! Very realistic, especially with the added effect of the windows.
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How thick is the transparent plastic (0,5 mm or thinner?)?
175 micron or 175/1000 mm. The same plastic you use in plastic kits from Faller (or so) to make windows.
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That looks great, the lighting at night with the windows adds a whole new dimension to it.
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Very nice window and light custom on your train coach. I would like to do something like this also but I think we will have to use batteries. It would look great on a more modern theme layout.
In old western train coaches would there be lighting like this or would it have been from an old oil lamp?
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Hi,
looks very nice.
Can you post a picture showing the roof when the light in the coach is on?
How many shines through the roof?
How is the LED strip connected to the rails? Any kind of condensators used to backup the lights when haveing a poor connection to the rails?
Regards
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How is the LED strip connected to the rails? Any kind of condensators used to backup the lights when haveing a poor connection to the rails?
It's connected to a Stainz loco:
The LED strip is powered by the LGB Stainz 2 locomotive, that has a power connection at the back of the train.
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....How many shines through the roof.....
Light doesn't shine through the roof, except from the little windows in the roof. Actually, the roof is made from quite dense and thick plastic.