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Article -- Lanterns made from Beads and Sequins

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Posted by Rene Schweitzer on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:51 PM
Spookytown, I am guessing you're referring to the article from Jan/Feb 1997. The author used craft-store beads there. That's the only one I know of.

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Posted by spookytown rr on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:13 PM

I remember one about sequins and stuff but I think the topic was on how to build realistic telephone transitors?

anyone remember that one?

 

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Posted by Tom The Brat on Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:00 AM

I'm thinking so.

I wandered the bead section of Michael's last night. A little super glue and red paint:

Maybe could have used a bigger sequin.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 18, 2008 6:35 PM

Tom,

Was he also using brass top and bottom? and the red bead in center with sequins on top and bottom.

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Posted by Tom The Brat on Friday, January 18, 2008 5:03 PM
Na, this guy was stringing beads and sequins on wires to look like lanterns. Wonder where I might have seen itDunce [D)]
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Posted by Rene Schweitzer on Friday, January 18, 2008 3:20 PM
Ray,
That sounds familiar, but I am sure it was part of another article, so it would be hard to find in the index. Tom, if you want to send me an email, I'll be happy to forward it on to Jack. (I should note that Jack has been very busy and might not respond immediately.)

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Posted by Ray Dunakin on Friday, January 18, 2008 12:20 PM
I seem to recall an article by Jack Verducci about how he detailed the inside of a building. If I remember correctly he mentioned something about making lamps and light fixtures out of beads. Sorry I can't be more specific.


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Posted by Rene Schweitzer on Friday, January 18, 2008 11:52 AM

This isn't exactly beads and sequins:

http://www.trains.com/grw/default.aspx?c=a&id=763 

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Article -- Lanterns made from Beads and Sequins
Posted by Tom The Brat on Friday, January 18, 2008 10:32 AM

I remember an article about making lanterns from beads and sequins, but can't find it in the handy PDF indices. Does anybody remember it?

 

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