Thank you Gents,
I’d like to thank Mr Citroën for the Green colour, it is a Car Body spray.
I did want to add a painted image on the body. Something like a Japanese image of a cherry tree, but if you’d seen my attempt at painting something like that, well you get the idea!
Still, SWMBO knows a lady who can paint, so maybe a collaboration is in order, or maybe a smaller form with a simple solid colour to try first.
Mounting the glass bead was fun, I could not find a thin enough bit of silver steel to fit the hole, so I wound up with a tiny piece of the Giant bamboo (I was given by a friend), turned thin enough to go through the hole and then the lid was drilled to take the angle needed. Thankfully bamboo is remarkably strong and so the bead is secured about as well as can be done.
As the beads are made with a hole all the way through I am still playing with the idea of turning a very tiny bead on a stem to inset into the top (open) hole, but frightened that it would introduce another timber and start to be too much.
Now I have to think what to do with the other beads?
