Lighting 60's Pin UP

by lpxav in Circuits > Art

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Lighting 60's Pin UP

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Everybody knows 60's pinup, they are a symbol about beauty and elegance!!

So I decided to create my own !! :)

Choose Your Model

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Here is the base of my pinup!!
For your own, you need to chose one who has a nice shape to be well visible when you will just keep a global and simplified shape!!

What Do You Need!

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For this instructable you will need :

-3 meters of El wire (choose youf color for your pinup, here it is orange something quite neutral)
-1 plexiglass sheet of 3 mm thickness
-pinup shape

Cut the Plexiglass Shape

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You need to cut carefully and slowly your pinup with respect ;)

And little by little you can design better shapes!!!!

Stick El Wire

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To stick el wire you need to use a hot glue gun and press the el wire on plexiglass stroke with your finger!!!!

But take care it's HOT like HOT GLUE!!!! ;)

Plug El Wire and It Glows !!!!

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Here we go it glows with just one 3volts alimentation but you can add one 1.5 volts battery to make your el wire lighter.
For 3 meters EL wire can be powered by 4.5 volts.


So now let's try it !!!! It is easy :)