The Train Lights Project

The Train Lights Project goal is to artistically mount controllable lights on GSCALE trains in such a way that they look like the trains have been decorated for XMAS.

This project has evolved a bit over the years. Originally I had strips of wood with simple RGB LED strips glued on and hung on my trains. It looked terrible. Except in the dark.

A few years ago my wife got me a 3D printer and I realized that I could use the printer to make up for my terrible woodworking (and other handiwork) skills. My first few attempts didn't go so well, mainly because I was still trying to hang the lights onto the cars.

My wife finally told me that I needed to think of a way in which I could completely hide all of the wires. To do this, I realized I would have to print the entire roof assembly of a car and not just light rails. To do that...... I needed a better printer. Luckily I had upgraded to an Ender3 and learned how to use openSCAD. Between those two things I was able to get to somethi