Steam Punk - The Fun Continues

Some times I am not sure if my new found passion for steam punk is a good thing as I now find myself collecting odds and ends that I think would be cool rather than throwing them away.  Today I passed a brass colored table lamp.  I was not a minute passed it when back I went to pick it up.  If it did not work the parts could be repurposed, that was the thinking, so home it came and to my surprise is actually worked, go figure.  Now the imagining starts, here's what it looks like today.  Who knows what it will look like tomorrow.

Whilst in Port Townsend in January we found a store that specializes in steam punk clothing.  No excuse was needed not to get Sarah a cool outfit, now I just have to finish her gun to finish off the outfit.

Even the girls are getting in on the fun

Whatever you do be sure to Max Life Out .....

Steampunk Coffe Table

Here is the latest Steampunk inspired project.  We had an old pine coffee table that we brought seconded hand almost eight years ago.  It no longer fitted into our décor and the choices where get rid of it or Steampunk it, easy choice lol.  Well here is the finished product - what do you think?

 

 

 

This is what it started out looking like, I took the pictures after removing the studs.

 

 

Steampunk Plane - Kinda

Although not technically Steampunk this project was inspired by Steampunk and quite frankly not being able to find what I wanted.  For sometime now I have been looking for a model silver plane and after scanning the internet, looking in stores and quite literally drawing a blank it dawned on me to repurpose or upcycle an existing model.

It was fun to do, and a nice way to spend a couple of evenings whilst Sarah hit a puzzle.  Here are the before and after pictures. 

After

 

 

Before

First Steampunk Gun

Inspired by images I saw online and needing something to occupy myself whilst recovering, I finally finished my first Steampunk gun.  It was fun to make and was something I could pick up and put down many, many times.

What the Gun Looked Like Before:

And After

 

For those of you interested here are the materials I used to create the gun

1 x Nerf Gun (your choice) this one was a Maveric Rev.6
Rub 'n' Buff for the aged paint and paint effect
Acrylic paints as needed, I used brown, blue metallic, silver and black
E6000 glue, it is the first time I have used it and it is a lot stronger than a glue gun.  I like the bits I put on to stay on, with a glue gun there is a tendency for things to get knocked off.
For the tubing I used copper wire and an assortment of odds and ends I had knocking around.
Bag of cogs that I picked up from Amazon.

I made the stand out of a odd bit of myrtle wood and hardware in my odds and ends box.