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I made these flame/smoke markers for when my vehicles get wrecked. Made with some stuffing from a stuffed animal painted black and then glued to an LED flickering tea light. I saw this a few months ago somewhere and finally got around to making a few myself. I think it makes for a pretty cool effect. Check out the YouTube link to see the "flicker" effect the tea lights give.

Cool stuff man! It's a bit too much effort for me, but I really like themt

Those are cool. Thanks for the idea.

BrotherVord wrote:
Cool stuff man! It's a bit too much effort for me, but I really like themt

Total time invested was about 30 minutes so it was not really much effort at all. They could also be used as simple terrain too as a "fire" blocking line of sight.

I have seen these before and considered making them.

Very cool indeed.
Quick questions:
How long do you think the batteries last?
What is the best method of gluing the smoke to the light?

Thanks for posting, has reminded me to get back to mine....

davethepak wrote:
I have seen these before and considered making them.

Very cool indeed.
Quick questions:
How long do you think the batteries last?
What is the best method of gluing the smoke to the light?

Thanks for posting, has reminded me to get back to mine....

I am not sure how long the battery lasts? The ones I have can replace the battery. I think the one we used around Christmas ran for a few days of being constantly on.

As for gluing the smoke to the light I just used a liberal amount of tacky glue around the base and it seems to have held pretty good. Time will tell. Actually you can probably get away with not even having the smoke glued down. You can shape it and just set it on top of the light.

So why was the feaces smeared on wooden sticks?..

Sn33R wrote:
So why was the feaces smeared on wooden sticks?..

My wife was reading something to me in the back ground while I shot the video. She was looking up the origin of the phrase "S*#T on a stick" something my Dad will say when he is frustrated with something. I never knew if it was something he made up or it came from somewhere. Turns out it comes from somewhere.

I did not really think about the audio recording as I was shooting the video.

Epic background soundtrack man.

Looks good. Ive seen a few of those. I think the ones that swap from red to yellow to orange quickly make em look like theyre burning a bit more. havent tried this before myself. been wanting to. did you just pick up some LEDs at a hobby store that were already hooked up to a battery and had a flicker built in?

Yeah, Tea Lights are sold in packs of 3-4 usually.

zteknon wrote:
Epic background soundtrack man.

Looks good. Ive seen a few of those. I think the ones that swap from red to yellow to orange quickly make em look like theyre burning a bit more. havent tried this before myself. been wanting to. did you just pick up some LEDs at a hobby store that were already hooked up to a battery and had a flicker built in?

I got them at Home Depot around Christmas time. pack of 6 for $2 or $3 Only needed 1 for the Christmas decorations so I just threw the others into my "model box". Finally got around to make the smoking wreck markers. Ones that swap would probably look coolers but I just used what I had. did not go out of my way to find something special.

I saw another post about this recently and made a few for myself. I'm in the US, the tea lights I found at Fred Meyer and you can probably find at similar stores (such as Wal Mart) or home and home decorating stores. Fairly cheap, ran me about 75 cents a light. I used synthetic pillow stuffing, attached using hot glue (put it around the edges of the plastic disk, stick the stuffing to the outside), then spray painted the stuffing black (about 3 bucks for the spray can). Total time probably came to 30-45 minutes, plus shopping. There's a couple of step-by-step how-tos on Youtube I used to help out.

As for the batteries, supposedly they're good for 500 hours, at least according to the package. The batteries on a couple of them are a little loose, they have to get thumped lightly or dropped from a few inches to knock them back in to place every once and a while.

Thanks for the idea. I am all about thrifty but awesome ways to make 40k stuff. Thanks for this! If interested check out my blog it has the same type of ghetto made stuff.

I've also made these, they just look cool. Better than your average smoke.

I just used cotton wool and pulled it into the shape required, once sprayed the spray paint holds it in shape.

Hey typhus40k, I love thrifty 40k stuff too. check out my homemade airbrush on the cheap for real thrift.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/530799.page

Sorry to post in your thread man.