Lighting your layout has never been more simple.
With the innovative Lamplighter system adding billboards, street lamps, and lighting your buildings couldn’t be easier!
Purchase Individual System Components
| HO Scale | HO, O, and N Scales | All Scales |
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| Billboards Lamplighter 1 or 2 Optional Controller | Lamps Lamplighter 1 or 2 Optional Controller | Fibers Lamplighter 1 or 2 Optional Controller |
The following installation videos show you just how easy and quick it is to light up your village.
Light up your model
This video showcases how to light up a small village using a lamplighter and fiber optics. The process involves mounting the lamplighter underneath the layout, drilling holes in buildings to insert the fiber optics, and adding lamps to light up the village.
The video also demonstrates how to adjust the light level and add color to the fiber optics using translucent paint. The process is quick and easy, taking only 10 minutes to bring the small village to life. The video is brought to you by Trainz.com, making dreams come true one train at a time.
| Lighting Billboards | Lighting Lamps |
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Dwarvin's fiber-lit Billboards will add to your overall lighting by accentuating a rooftop, a highway or other parts of your layout. Each one comes preinstalled with 9ft of 1mm fiber 3ft for each light
You can purchase your billboard in one of two ways, pre-assembled, or as a 'flat-pack'. The 'flat-pack' has been engineered to provide a very simple assembly that comes out looking perfect every time. |
The Dwarvin Street Lamps add interest to the layout and provide directional lighting.
Each lamp comes with 4’ (1.3m) of 1mm fiber optic already attached for easy placement in proximity to the Lamplighter box. If the height of the lamp needs to be decreased, just insert it further into the hole in the layout. |
Light up your Buildings
- Add aluminum foil on the inner ceiling with tacky glue
(shiny side out) - Add aluminum foil to the back of the inner building
- Use parchment paper or tissue paper to put over the windows.
(use crayons to color). These look like curtains! - Drill your hole in your layout where the building will go.
(A stirring straw can help keep the fiber straight.) - Light up your Lamplighter and watch your building light up!
Fiber Coloring
In this video tutorial, you will learn a simple and fun technique to change the color of fibers using Tamiya paints. By following the step-by-step demonstration, you will see how to create vibrant and translucent effects on fibers by dipping a paintbrush into different colored paints. This technique can be used for various purposes, such as creating a fiery effect for a model house.
The video provides an easy-to-follow demonstration that can be used by anyone looking to add color to their fibers. So, let's have some fun and experiment with translucent colors to create unique effects!
View our huge selection of Tamiya paint here!
Controlling your Lamplighter with a remote
If you have more than one Lamplighter unit, all of them can be controlled from one remote, or remotes can be programmed to control a specific Lamplighter unit (see instructions on pairing the remote).
This controller does more than just turn your Lamplighter unit on and off, you can dim the light output, change to a dynamic light mode and change the speed of these modes.
To use
- Connect the male jack that comes from the Wallwart power supply to the female jack that is part of the RF Lamplighter Controller.
- Insert the male jack from the RF Lamplighter Controller into the Lamplighter power input.
- Remove the plastic tab on the RF remote keypad to activate the battery and start using the system.
Pairing the Remotes:
1-to-1 match with a remote and a receiver
- Make sure only 1 receiver is connected to the power, the other receivers can not be working.
- Press the 'SPEED +' & 'SPEED -' buttons at the same time of the specific remote control you want to use with that receiver.
- Do not press the Green (the “Light”) button. This will set the receivers to a multiple pairing mode.
1-to-multi match with a remote and a number of receivers
- Make sure all the receivers are connected to the power and working.
- Press the Green (the “Light”) button, all the receivers will be set default again which is 1 to multiple working mode (synchronously).
