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 working lamp detailed with lampshade and painted mounted on a post earlier, but I have bodged the final installation several times. This time I took a different route and soldered up wires and battery connection up before I added model versions of enamel lampshades to my lights.
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 the cut, bended and glued with AC-glue. The lamps are cheap Chinese made LED-ones in white metal housing in H0 scale bought from ebay. The soft drink can lampshade is 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. |
