From a light fitting to a lime kiln.

What you can see in an everyday object

I recently redecorated our bedroom and a casualty was an IKEA pendant light fitting which took silly EU bulbs and was replaced with a proper British style fitting. Before trashing the whole thing I was looking at the shroud which sat on top of the glass shade.  "That looks the right size and shape for a lime kiln" I thinks to meself.

I thought I'd make a disused one and would hack a few holes in the plastic, and place some stonework behind peeping through the adobe over layer - easy. It turned out to be made from mild steel and needed a metal cutoff disk in my Dremel to do the business - not so easy.  I won't bore you with all that but will let the following pictures tell the most of story.

After cutting out two suitable holes I glued some Noch (I think) foam stonework behind them.  I used UHU POV cement thoughout this model.

I added styrene brick door columns and an arch header and glued them in place. Next I applied a thickish coat of Tamiya earth texture paint for the adobe covering. Some weathering powders and black acrylic paint tidied it up, or untidied it up.

 The next problem was the top port. I thinned out a strip af the Noch stonework as it isn't very flexible. Then I wrapped it round a suitable dowel and glued it on and cut it off.

I made a steel hatch from 10 thou styrene to plug the top port and glued it on.

Then I built up the joint with more earth mix and coloured it to match.

I added a doorway liner of matt black card and glued this inside.

Next I fabricated a steel door from 10 thou styrene with strip braces and a handle, painted this a rusty colour and glued it in.

The finished article. A tribute to my recycling skills....