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disappear. Photographs that looked terrible under mixed fl uorescent lighting suddenly look like a genius (think Ansell Adams) took them using the 5000K LEDs.


In an article I wrote a couple of years ago, I talked about using incandescent lighting with a microscope for the job of making and stropping blocks, making boats, anchors and other general woodwork. LEDs blow that lighting confi guration right out the window. Figure 1 shows a typical desk lamp with two arms and a 100-watt incandescent bulb, one of the lights I was using at the time. T is mechanism has two arms and a bulb; both of these features are poorly adapted to ship modeling (at least compared to LEDs). T e 100-watt bulb has a color temperature of about 3000K (much


too red, especially for photographing models) and the two parallel arms are much too long which means you cannot point the light where you want it most of the time. For me, using these commercial desk type lights (which I did for seven years) was a constant battle but, since they were all that was available at the time, what was one to do? Even though I was constantly making modifi cations to the arms, the changes did not really solve any of the problems. T en, someone invented the LED and made it cheap, small and powerful; the perfect solution to all the problems. With a little creativity I fashioned some great lamps out of scrap wood and standard hardware, and used a modifi ed LED desk lamp from Wal-Mart for the electrical components. Figure 2 shows one LED lamp as purchased and one LED lamp disassembled and almost ready for re-soldering and mounting on an


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