No Doctor Who Gift Box would be complete without a sonic screwdriver, so that was the first thing I made.
Sadly, I forgot to take step by step pictures as I was making it, so I will just have to make this up as I go along. Below are picture of what the various supplies I used look like.
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| Highlighters Parts A & B Source: http://24hourwristbands.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Brazil_highlighter_50f72fa05b302.jpg |
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| Ball Point Pen Part E |
- Part A and Part B - Highlighter
- Part C - The Plastic Ink filled part of a ball point pen
- Part D - Spring from a ball point pen
- Part E - Clear plastic casing from a INC Alias 1.0 pen
- Part F - Rubber grip from a pen
- Part G - Round glass bead
- Part H - Two rubber grips from pens
I removed and discarded the actual highlighter bit and the plastic thing attached to it.
After that I cut the little handle thingie of the lid.
Then, I cut the top off the highlighter lid. The hole this made is where I eventually glued on the round glass bead which is the sonic screwdriver 'light'.
With the bottom of the highlighter, I made a hole in the end, big enough to poke the tip of a pen through.
After that, I mixed up so black and white pain to make a sort of silvery-grey colour and painted Part A and B. After using a hairdryer to speed up the drying process, I covered the paint in glaze.
Following that, I poked Part C through part B until the tip went through the hole in part B and it looked kind of like an actual pen. Then I used a hot glue gun to glue around the tip of the pen, fastening it to the outside of the pen. When the glue was dry I painted over it in the grey and glazed it so it didn't stand out.
Then, I poked some glue down into Part B so that Part C would be a bit more secure.
Wow, sorry this is sounding so confusing, it sounded much easier in my head!
Anyway, after that I got the clear plastic casing I had broken off my INC pen ie Part E.
I put glue all over the opening of Part B and then shoved Part E on as far as it would go.
I now had the bottom of my pen, complete with ink and tip.
I slipped Part D (the spring) over part C and it slid down until it came to the barrier made by the dried glue. The spring serves absolutely no purpose, I just thought it made the pen look nicer.
When I'd done that, I glued Part E into Part A.
When this had all dried, I decorated it.
I glued Part G (the bead) onto the hole I had made in Part A by cutting off the top earlier.
Then, I got Part F and shoved it onto Part A as far as it would go (and so the bead 'light' was sticking out and not covered).
For Part H I removed the rubber grips from two pens and cut them in half longways. I glued one to Part B and then trimmed the other until they fit together and looked like one large rubber grip. Then I glued that one on too.
As a finishing touch, I found a long blue seed bead in my bead box and glued it onto Part A so that it looked like a button. To glue I on I used the mod podge glaze.
Sorry if that was hard to understand, it is waaaaaay harder to try and explain how to do something after you have done it than step by step. If you want to make your own sonic screwdriver pen design, just grab some office stationary and play around until are happy with the end result.
I was very happy with how my pen turned out :)
Here are some more pictures of the finished pen.
