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Thank you Jesse, i'll go for "imgur

Well Tom i went ahead and glued it, turned out fine, the trunk and some of the foliage is now permanent which will stop it all coming off when my wife knocks' it over every time she runs a duster round it soon as i work out how to get a photo host (been a long time since i did that, had to use one on the old Hilux Surf forum till they up dated it)i'll post a pic of it, thanks mate, regard's Ian

Hi Jesse and Tom, yes "light my brick" set are certainly impressive and i would expect good quality for the price, and as Yoggington mentioned once you see how the professional set are made up you can make your own, i did have experience with rigging my cars/trucks with lights some years back, mostly i got component's from Maplin's or internet, and as he says the basic stuff is pretty cheap, i also used the SMD's you get on those "mood lighting strips", cut em out de-solder and re-fit into headlight's etc. a bit fiddley but not as bad as some 1mm SMDS i used once, you quite a few failures if you linger a bit too long when soldering, the heat destroys them if your not quick enough i used those Strips for lighting a display cabinet and as you say Tom both ends of the driver and strip have male pins so you needed to get female joiners, also yes those sticky pads, i'm assuming they aint great quality like say 3M, One thing i would like to ask is has anyone used superglue or anything to make a good fix in any of your builds?, i ask as this Bonsai tree is taxing me a bit, the first attempt after the main trunk came apart several time i found i'd done it wrong, i have re-built it twice and sure all parts are in the right place and it still come apart in the weakest part (mid trunk and comes off the round base quite easily, and as i do not intend to pull it apart again (ever) i thought of small dabs of cyno to make it "her -indoors", dusting it proof BTW Tom those plant models are really impressive, i made the Matchbox 1/25th kit of a Cat DH8 dozer many years ago (that was before LED's though, thanks again for your reply's, all the best, Ian

Thanks Yoggington, yes light my bricks are a bit on the expensive side (around £25 for the Bonsai kit) but they do look good, only just got into these kits, they come a long way from the little kits i used to but for my kids, like i said i used to make all the led lighting for my car/truck kits just basic stuff, usually 3 mm LED's or SMD's cut off a strip, resistors and wire from PC hook-up cables, it's what i first thought of doing to these kits until i saw the proper light setsCheers mate

Hi Thank you for your reply, i'll go with a "light my bricks " set and see how i get on, i'll post a pic as soon as it's done and i figure how to add a pic, i did try to add a pic of one of the truck kits i added LEDS to bit the file was too big, regards Ian

Hi, new to the forum and to Lego, i am currently making the Bonsai tree kit and was thinking about adding LED lighting as this kit has a base, i was going to fit 2 or 4 color changing LEDs to the base shining up into the tree, i did some googling and found the Lego lighting kits and thought these would be great, however further searching brought me to this forum and to a post asking about the same thing, the guy asked if it was possible to fit a system that didn't req relying on a battery (as i believe is what is in the Lego kits), so my question is can these lighting kits be run on a LED driver (like Christmas tree light, or a USB charger,) i'm by no means any sort of electronic genius, please bear that in mind in any answers i have had some experience of wiring up LED previously, i used to make model car and truck kits and always added lighting to them, they were always on a 12V system using 480 OHM resisters, so i know nothing about lower or higher voltage sources, i would like to be able to switch them on in the evening etc and there is a 240 outlet pretty near the display, thanks for any advice you can give, best regards Ian