Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

The little guy already knows high pressure steam! Obviously paying attention to what pop is teaching. Good going Nick, that's a fine looking young man.

Thanks for sharing these pictures Nick.

Good to see your Son enjoying a steam up.

he is such a cutie, I love the "behind the scenes pictures" I am intrigued by you lighting & stands, I think I'm in need of that sort of set up.

He wasn't very cute today when we stopped at McDonalds and he threw a fit for a half an hour, not eating his food because he wanted to go play    His older brother got to play while he went hungry and left with no time at the games... guess I now know what I put my mom through 

Bruce, the extra lights really help bring out detail that its normally left in the shadows from a single overhead light source. I originally had small/cheap lights on mini tripods that were bought off Amazon. They worked, but were never the right height and worst of all the batteries were always dead when I needed them and of course they seem to take forever to charge.

I finally bit the bullet and spent the big bucks ($129) for this pair. They come with pretty basic tripods, but they are easily adjustable and fold up very small. The lights take two batteries (not included), or best of all they come with a cord so they can be plugged in with no worry about dead batteries or even having to buy batteries. I'm sure you're familiar with filming under fluorescent lights and how it can slightly change the color of the picture/video... well these lights have several LED's in the front, half are yellow and half are white and they have two knobs in the back so you can adjust the brightness of each color. May sound difficult, but just look through your camera screen and set it to the brightness/color that you like best. They also have a thin cover that can be placed over the LED's to diffuse the lighting, which also helps a lot.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072Q42GXQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1



As for the one mounted on the camera, I am VERY happy with this VILTROX L116T, have even thought of ordering a spare just in case mine went bad. Never know how long or well Chinese LED lights will hold up... This one does use a battery, but lasts a long time and the color temperature is adjustable along with the brightness.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D8TTFSR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thanks for sharing these pictures Nick.

Good to see your Son enjoying a steam up.

It's been very dry in our house with winter here and his lips are chapped, so I told my wife we were running it to help the humidifiers keep up 

These put out a ton of steam, I filmed it this morning at about -6F, have to edit the video, but when I took a quick look at the clips, it was very hard to see the engine through the steam.