Wednesday, June 22, 2011

I wanna marry a lighthouse keeper

I had a notion the other day to make a tiny lighthouse. Here's the instructions (no photos of the stages as it was an experiment, so it wasn't guaranteed to work).

I wasn't sure whether to go for a coloured striped lighthouse, or a plain one, so I went for a plain one for a first attempt. This could be made with red and white stripes, or blue and white stripes. You can also make a platform for the lighthouse with a brown or black tight roll, and add grass/bushes with green fringed strips or coils.


Tools
PVA glue
Very fine black pen
Fine point tweezers

Tower 
2.5 white 3mm strips
0.5 blue 3mm strip

Light
2 metallic silver 3mm strips

Roof
0.5 blue 1.5mm strip (roof)
Eighth of blue 1.5mm strip (top ball)

Door
Thin section of white 3mm strip

Start by attaching the 0.5 length of blue to the 2.5 lengths of white. Roll them into a tight roll, starting from white and finishing with a blue outer rim. Carefully push this tight roll into the tower shape (making sure that the outer blue edge doesn't creep up - it's your door section), and coat the inside with PVA glue.
Put aside to dry.

Roll the 2 metallic strips up into a tight roll, and glue to secure.

Roll the 0.5 length of 1.5mm strip into a tight roll. Carefully push out into a cone shape, and coat the inside with PVA glue.
Put aside to dry.
Roll the eighth length of 0.5mm blue into a tight roll, and glue to secure.

Snip a rectangular length of 3mm white paper. Draw a small dot on one side of the long side  -this will be the doorknob.

When all parts are dry:
Glue the metallic tight roll on top of the tower.
Glue the the roof to the top of the metallic tight roll.
Glue the top ball to the top of the roof.
Carefully draw on thin rectangles (windows) in an ascending straight line on one side of the tower.
Glue the door below the line of rectangular windows.
Draw thin lines down the metallic tight roll to represent the window panes.

You now have an inch high light house!
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