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No that was mk1 so just some bog standard SMD white led’s im afraid, what i have done on subsequent versions (currently everything is in storage due to doing my house up) is use tape for all the conductors (but i cheat slightly and cut it using my desktop vinyl cutter) and only use conductive paint to dot the contacts on the led to the tape, as my main goal was to create a way of illuminating terrain which required zero soldering so nobody had an excuse not to 😉 basically if you can apply a decal you have more than enough ability to do this 😀

As for the smoke machine it is litterally as simple as getting a ecig head, a fan, construct a cowling for the fan to channel air at the base of head and pulsing the fan and heating coils, 2 or 3 second bursts will produce a lot of “smoke”.  The childs bubble gun comes into play as i wanted a peristaltic pump to top up the smoke fluid (glycerol) from a larger reservoir so it could run all day, and looking at prices in farnell and rs, bubble guns came quids in as i was able to get 2 for £4 on amazon lol

best example of a tutorial i could find is this:

https://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Smoke-Machine-from-Ecig-clearomiser/

An aquarium pump could work nicely for this as well (dont currently have any spare, as i use them for my pcb fab and/or invert the bellow valves to turn them into mini vac pumps which i build SMD pickup tools from as im too cheap to buy a real one lol) but as i plan to build this into a specific bit of terrain battery powered is preferable,