Phew, it's been a busy November and I haven't had any time for modelling. Only on the last day in the month I managed to get some time at the workbench. I devoted the time getting a pair of lamps mounted on poles I finished a long time ago.
I have had a working lamp detailed with lampshade and painted mounted on a post earlier, but I have bodged the final installation several times leading to short circuits. This time I took a different route and soldered wires and battery connection up before I added 1/19 scale versions of enamel lampshades.
The lampshades are cut from a piece of thin metal upcycled from an old soft drink can. Precut with a circle cutter and cut free with a pair of cissors, the metal circle is then cut, bended and glued with AC-glue to form a flar cone. The lamps are cheap Chinese LEDs in white metal housings in H0 scale bought from ebay. The soft drink can lampshade is AC-glued to the lamp, blended in with fillet of extra glue and then painted dark grey. Quite simple really.
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| Discs of metal cut from a soft drink can. |
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| The home made lampshade fitted to the Chinese H0 scale lamp. |
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| Complete assembly waiting for the glue to dry. I have since fitted a fillet of glue to blend in the lampshade better. Once painted it will probably look quite decent. |
