Kaboom! Who doesn't love some light-up explosion markers?
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| An AFCFA patrol comes under heavy fire from Commonwealth artillery. |
A very quick and easy project for a Sunday afternoon with Number 1 son. Hot glue gun, tea-lights, black spray paint and a pair of pliers are the starting point for this. Inspiration came from Black Magic Craft which has loads of great ideas and is well worth a look if you haven't already come across it.
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| Tools and materials. |
The first task is to remove the plastic caps over the tea-light LEDs. Number 1 son was pleased to get a go with the pliers for this part.
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| Removing the covers over the tea-light LEDs. |
This should let the light from the LEDs fill the smoke cloud a little better.
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| Tea lights ready for glue. |
Next, we need some polyester fibre stuffing. I suddenly realised that I'd forgotten to get out this key ingredient but I knew we had a bag somewhere...
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| Don't forget the polyfibre! |
We pulled off 4 good tufts of polyfibre of a suitable size for smoke clouds.
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| Smoke clouds. |
Now the hot glue, the part to which Number 1 son had been most looking forward. A circle of glue on the top...
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| Hot glue around the top of the tea-light. |
... is followed by a wiggly line around the side.
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| More glue round the sides. |
The polyfibre tufts are squidged onto the glue. Once the glue has cooled and set, the smoke columns are gently shaped.
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| Don't look like much yet. |
The next step was undertaken by just me, spraying the smoke black. This particular brand of spray is especially pungent so best used outside.
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| Pffffft.... nice black oily smoke! |
Once the paint had dried, I decided to add an extra spray coat of matt varnish to make them a little more resilient.
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| First coat of black paint done. |
Altough not visible in these pictures, the flickering action of the tea-lights really adds to the effect of the explosions.
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| Kaboom! Whump! Kathoom! etc. |
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