After consulting with Miss Lisa in our first group tutorial and telling her about our change of plans, she said it was okay and we were advised to use silicone glue to put our umbrella stand together. Last saturday, we went to Ace Hardware at Ikano Power Centre to buy some supplies (such as silicone glue, spray paint and bits of plastic pipes for our steampunk-styled decorations) before heading over to my house to build it.
My house has been renovated recently, so there were a lot of spare parts lying around that we could use for our project.
Figuring out how to put it all together. That's what I call improvising, heh.
We found old table legs and CD racks to use for the umbrella stand!
Cleaning the parts before painting, to make sure we don't paint over dirt.
We dismantled the CD rack and started spray painting it red, and the table legs gold. Our inspiration was Iron Man, with a steampunk twist.
We have to wait one day for the paint to fully dry. I'm glad we bought the spray paint. It really gives a finished look to everything.
After this, all that was left was to glue it together using silicone glue, and decorate it! Silicone glue is really strong. It's the glue used to piece together the glass of an aquarium!
Our progress so far.
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