Before Tamiya had their wonderful Translucent colors to use (specifically the Orange) I had an ancient can of Krylon Battery Terminal Spray Paint (to slow the corrosion factor on car batteries) it was a perfect match to make turn signals on model cars the perfect Amber tone like the real units. Thank you so much for the tutorial on the Red beacon install, and the tip on the light pipe not being included to make sure it is of adequate brightness. Keep on keeping on and sharing for us less informed/experienced modelers.
Thank you very much for this tutorial. It helped a lot to know in advance what I would need. I just finished installing the marker light and modernized HEP unit on my 9915. I guess it took me about an hour to do it all. I also added a cab figure. Personally, I don’t think there is a whole lot of difference (at least on camera) between the BN3 light tube and the regular lighting setup on the 9915. The red marker light doesn’t look that different in brightness to me personally. Once I got mine installed, other than the center lens being so ever slightly smaller than the outside marker lights, I don’t see much difference in the intensity. Not enough that I’m going to pursue trying to fix it. Drilling the hole takes the longest, due to how cumbersome it is with little room to drill, but it eventually drills through. It is pretty important to get the flat side of the marker light on the bottom. It’s kind of hard to see, but once you get it in, it’s easy to take some tweezers and rotate it to the correct position before cementing the marker light. It’s kind of scary about how delicate the pickup wires and such are inside of the unit. Makes you want to just get it on the tracks and never touch it again. Thank you again for putting this tutorial together, it’s much appreciated.
It’s not super noticeable in brightness but it definitely helps to have the light tube. I can see the BN-3 one a lot better then the ones I’ve installed it on. Not a crazy difference but I would like it to be brighter and I’ll likely pursue the fiber optic route if Rapido doesn’t have any spares available I had a lot of request from people wanting to see how it’s done so I decided to show the process
After watching several videos about tail lights I had to have a jar of Tamiya X-27 clear red. That stuff works wonders for marker lights that need to be red. I've used it on a Lionel bay window caboose to make the rear marker lights red as well as vehicle tail lights. Caboose looks better now. Cheers from eastern TN
Before Tamiya had their wonderful Translucent colors to use (specifically the Orange) I had an ancient can of Krylon Battery Terminal Spray Paint (to slow the corrosion factor on car batteries) it was a perfect match to make turn signals on model cars the perfect Amber tone like the real units.
Thank you so much for the tutorial on the Red beacon install, and the tip on the light pipe not being included to make sure it is of adequate brightness. Keep on keeping on and sharing for us less informed/experienced modelers.
I just did the 2 modifications.Turned out well because of your video. Thanks!
Thank you very much for this tutorial. It helped a lot to know in advance what I would need. I just finished installing the marker light and modernized HEP unit on my 9915. I guess it took me about an hour to do it all. I also added a cab figure.
Personally, I don’t think there is a whole lot of difference (at least on camera) between the BN3 light tube and the regular lighting setup on the 9915. The red marker light doesn’t look that different in brightness to me personally. Once I got mine installed, other than the center lens being so ever slightly smaller than the outside marker lights, I don’t see much difference in the intensity. Not enough that I’m going to pursue trying to fix it.
Drilling the hole takes the longest, due to how cumbersome it is with little room to drill, but it eventually drills through. It is pretty important to get the flat side of the marker light on the bottom. It’s kind of hard to see, but once you get it in, it’s easy to take some tweezers and rotate it to the correct position before cementing the marker light.
It’s kind of scary about how delicate the pickup wires and such are inside of the unit. Makes you want to just get it on the tracks and never touch it again.
Thank you again for putting this tutorial together, it’s much appreciated.
It’s not super noticeable in brightness but it definitely helps to have the light tube. I can see the BN-3 one a lot better then the ones I’ve installed it on. Not a crazy difference but I would like it to be brighter and I’ll likely pursue the fiber optic route if Rapido doesn’t have any spares available
I had a lot of request from people wanting to see how it’s done so I decided to show the process
Very informative
Thanks!
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Great video! Thank you!
After watching several videos about tail lights I had to have a jar of Tamiya X-27 clear red. That stuff works wonders for marker lights that need to be red. I've used it on a Lionel bay window caboose to make the rear marker lights red as well as vehicle tail lights. Caboose looks better now. Cheers from eastern TN
I’m confident enough to do this my self now lol
Glad I could help. It’s a very tedious process drilling the hole by hand. I took several breaks but going slow really is the key here
Well done.
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