Adding lighting to building kits with support from plastic trees

[POLO_Train]

I am trying to free up some space on my build shelf to make room for some more builds, and this kit was gifted to me and it is the PIKO 62227 Dans Burger building kit.

I am curious to know if any other builders reuse the plastic trees to hold the interior lighting?
I am doing the same on a few other POLA and PIKO builds, but this PIKO kit plastic tree fit pretty well to center the light.

 

[dunnyrail]

I am trying to free up some space on my build shelf to make room for some more builds, and this kit was gifted to me and it is the PIKO 62227 Dans Burger building kit.

I am curious to know if any other builders reuse the plastic trees to hold the interior lighting?
I am doing the same on a few other POLA and PIKO builds, but this PIKO kit plastic tree fit pretty well to center the light.

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I have been known to use it for Gutters and Downpipes.

 

[POLO_Train]

I have been known to use it for Gutters and Downpipes.

Ahh I like that idea, I will have to try in the future.

 

[curtis]

Agreed. I've used styrene in the past, but the stuff is pricey. This makes sense because I end up just throwing them away otherwise!

 

[korm kormsen]

i am normally using anything my eyes see first, when i need a structure.
that can be bamboo chopsticks, shashlik spears, solid copper cables, gardener wires, strips cut from veneer, or whatever else lays around.
most often i build entire floors/ceilings and paint or re-force the walls, to evade the ugly leaking of light through the plastic walls.
so no extra structure for light hanging is needed.

the plastic stems/trees (if roundish) i tend to put aside for modelling pipes or other round things.

 

[POLO_Train]

Oh I forgot to add a picture with the lights set in place (not final install) and ready for final wiring to clean up the wires to a terminal block for power pick up for the building.
I need to do some final wiring for two other buildings, so I am putting it on the shelf till I get time to finish them all up at once.