This time I want to give a good friend of mine a miniature statue.
Hans sits under his old-fashioned lamp every fair,
which means a special photo is taken of him every time.
Fot this small project,
I took the fish seller from the Asterix plastic series from the 1970s.
The fish had to go, so with a knife I cut it off,
and since I was busy I cut off a piece of its head.
I asked my sister who makes dollhouses
if she had any ideas for a lampshade,
and she sent me some from her stash
so I could try it on.
And let's face it, this is a cast, right?
Then it was time to try everything,
after first working with plastic,
I ended up with a stirring rod from which I cut small stubs.
With tape I lay the parts in the right place.
Then I use a hot glue gun to glue the parts together,
and with baking paper I flattened the joints evenly.
To get the lampshade attached and to secure the whole thing
to the figure I also glued a paper clip along.
Quite a bit of pva glue in the lampshade.
Balancing everything out a bit so it can dry properly.
And tie some yarn to a bent-over paper clip,
which I afterwards used wood glue to make a plug.
With paper I had reinforced the corners of the lamp.
Then mount the lamp on its head with paper clip,
and glue to the hand securely.
After this I made an airplane from some
pieces of plastic, it was not easy to glue it like that,
but with 2 matches as a tool it worked.
Later, with some more PVA glue, tightened things up.
With some yarn, I even made a propeller.
And then I started painting, a white lamp?
No let me try yellow...
Better, but isn't quite it....
In the end, the lamp became silver.
On a stirring rod, I painstakingly made 2 bows
to put on his shoes. This was really tricky!
But it does look cool, so the effort was not in vain.
Then I made some more buttons on the lamp from PVA glue drops.
Make the buttons stand out with black.
Of course Hans was wearing his black FIGZ shirt.
And that plane inspired by the red baron,
that looks perfect.
This is because Hans is currently busy making airplanes.
Of course the plug is on the lamp,
because what is a lamp without a cord.
From the side,
you can also clearly see the buttons on the lamp.
I am very pleased with the end result,
and everyone who knows Hans laughed a lot about it too.
Even Hans himself!
Thanks for visiting,
hope you had as much fun as when I made it.
It was a fun project with a few challenges though.
