Thanks Gents - Glad to be able to share my toils and troubles with this build.
Speaking of troubles:
Lantern - troubles (*que dramatic intro*)
I was generally very pleased with the led diode from lights4models, only drawback form my perspective wiring it into a leg of a table was that the resistor was scolded pretty close to the base of the diode. as I had to cut the wires (resistor was too big to thread through the leg) I had to resolder them. Now, I am not the best of soldering - honestly I do not even qualify to be amongst the worse... My fiddling and many attempts at soldering the very thin wire I thought might have overheated the diode. I initially thought it was the resistor but it did not work with a new one either.
I had a spare from lights4models. I found that I could use it without cutting the wire, I tested it - it worked, then it explicitly stopped working and was adamant in remaining so...
Key take - away:
The very thin wiring is a hassle for an inexperienced solder - in the lights4odels ones the wiring is a solid metal rod rather than copper threads, meaning that it can be bend into - and will hold - any position but it is very prone to breakage - especially when the coating is removed
So, Nothing was fixed permanently, and I had some flickering led (3mm) from a danish company. I bought them after seeing a clip on facebook, I wired them up did the soldering and they worked the treat - only problem is the light colour. They were termed "orange" - the movie clip showed them to be a very yellow hue which is what I was after.
The light - even after I wrapped it in two layers of yellow filter is still very - orange - more akin to ambers in a bonfire than the flame of a candle
I tried to put filter film onthe glass of the lantern as well to no awail - still very orange.
See for yourselves:
I have ordered some new ones but they won't be here until between the 7th and 12th and bearing in mind that the deadline if I want to enter this into competition that bleeding lantern it is a spanner in the works.... but come hell or high water there will be a flickering light in my pit - dammit...