Steampunk Christmas Bobble
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put in an LED candle tealight and hang it on your tree!
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- Printables
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- Winter & Christmas & New Year's
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- Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial
I love steampunk and my wife loves Christmas. So I looked around for something, then decided I could make my own! 2 years later…
My initial design was to wire in a button on the bottom to control the light I was going to put inside. That proved a bit more than I wanted to deal with after 2 years of toying with this to get it to this point. I designed it so that it is held together with 8 6mm disc magnets (4 top, 4 bottom) that I glued in. I was able to find LED tealights at the dollar store that candle flicker to give the main boiler the look of heated action! Aside from the LED, the only other thing I added was a bit of dark cloth over the boiler window to give it a better look.
The original design was based off something I saw on etsy or pinntrest, but I can no long find the image I once used as a starting point (to give credit to the inspiration).
There are quite a few pieces to this work. The top and bottom are fairly straight forward. The spacer goes in the small side boiler.
The 2 smoke stack pieces glue together, then the side without the indent goes into the hole in the top piece near the boiler window.
The Piston lock goes on the back, with the larger hole on the bottom piece, and a small hole on the gear on the top piece. This was an early design part, and did not initially take into consideration of taking this apart often. (my apologies till I can find to rectify that).
the lever goes in between the two protruding gears on the bottom half.
This leaves the gauge covers. I sized then printed gauges on card stock, cut them out, placed them in the gauges. Then I poured white glue over the front to seal them in ( a thin layer). When this completely dried it was clear like a glass covering. I did a slight bit of sanding to shape where the gauges attach but only slightly.
The larger gauge goes across both top and bottom pieces, but I glued it only to the top.
Lastly, I made a kind of cardboard tealight holder, as I was not sure if that kind of thing would be universal enough for a printed piece.
I can go into more details if needed but I hope this helps other steampunkers out there bright steampunk to christmas time!