Last November, we bought some Christmas houses and lamps at Action. All four houses had 3 LEDs inside that were powered via AA batteries. The houses are of course not in the same quality like the model train houses from Faller, Auhagen, Noch or other producers, but the value for money is more than ok. I think one house cost just 3 or 4 Euro. In addition we bought a small Christmas tree with LEDs.
During the Christmas season we mounted all on a box, painted a street on the box and also put some cars and winter trees (the latter also from Action for a real good price) on the box.
I also found a Schuco Mercedes Unimog snow plough in my model car collection.
After Christmas we decided to integrate the houses in our model train layout. So I first screwed off the lower baseplate that contained the batterie cases.
Then I cut off all cables.
I also screwed off the medium baseplate with the "snow".
Finally I soldered the cables together to be able to plug the houses to the light circuit of our model train layout.
But before that we had to build the mountain on that the winter village should be placed.
Previous posts:
Part 1: The Christmas present
Part 2: The petrol station
Part 3: How it all started
Part 4: My model car collection
Part 5: The farm
Part 6: My GDR collection
Part 7: The base plate
Part 8: Basic electricity
Part 9: Mounting the tracks
Part 10: DR railroad cars
Part 11: Electrifying the railway switches
Part 12: Electricity for the lights
Part 13: Another DR passenger car
Part 14: An electric drive for the second railway switch
Part 15: My website "scalemodel.photography"
Part 16: The self-made protective pad
Part 17: Moving the base plate to the final position
Part 18: The campground
Part 19: The petrol station and the farm
Part 20: The railway crossing
Part 21: Our PIKO Junior set
Part 22: Creating a charging station for electric cars
Part 23: The Flemish houses
Part 24: More street lights
Part 25: Interior lighting for the farm
Part 26: The USB vacuum cleaner
Part 27: The wine cellars
Part 28: The wine press