Warm Buttery LED light?

[Raul]

Any one know how to use surface mount LEDs to get the warm buttery light one thinks of from incandescent bulbs?

I have been contemplating building some LED light panels into the boxed beams in my romper-room so that if I wanted to eat a meal while watching the tube or just relax to music, I could without the light being harsh or ugly the way most commercially available LEDS are.

Is there a bulb type or a combination? I'm thinking low power since all I want is a soft light.
No Leuxon or Cree rocket ship engines

 

[CocaCola]

They are called warm white LEDs... The color is near identical to incandescent...

The most like incandescent bulb LEDs I have found (that is without modification or additional lenses) is the 'straw hat' warm white 5mm (or 8mm) LEDs these are real close to looking like a small incandescent, they even have the 'hot' center glow of incandescent bulbs if you mount them behind a tinted lens... Like any LED they are still more directional than a bulb but the straw hat design really does a nice job of diffusion and the color is as you would expect from a bulb...

Do a Google search for 'straw hat 5mm warm white' or 'straw hat 8mm warm white'

 

[Raul]

thanks I'll check it out