Steampunk Pistol Completed

And in time, too! This is Steampunk pistol is hubby's birthday card, part of a long tradition of elaborate cards that comes from a time when we had even less money than we do now and a card was all he was going to get.

I had a huge amount of fun doing this and I recommend that if you're having a bad day and can get your hands on a plastic gun, make one of these. Get your favourite adhesive, a pile of interesting bits and pieces you have in that third kitchen drawer and some metallic paint. Ignore the phone and just potter about assembling stuff, like you did when you were five and had tasty glue, a heap of macaroni and a sheet of sugar paper.

I don't pretend, even for an instant, that this is the equivalent of those beautifully engineered weapons that serious cosplayers make. They are exquisite and detailed and wonderful and this is a plastic water pistol sprayed gold. The other side is here [link]

There is a box for it, and a little bottle of Luminiferous Aether (other wise it won't work, you see?) and it actually lights up! I mean, it really works! I just need to write a cryptic accompanying letter and there it is, done.

How do I know about the third drawer down in your kitchen? There's a song about it [link] He says a rude word, so if you're very small, don't listen to it when there's a grown up about. Rude words scare grown ups.