Wands!

Why wands I hear you ask, well a good friend of ours is getting married soon and my wife attended her hen night which had a Harry Potter theme, so she asked if I could try making some wands. 

So like any good modeler I applied my googlefu and 10 minutes later I had a method all mapped out!

A quick trip to get some wooden dowel and glue sticks for my glue gun and I was ready to go. Each one measures approx 12 inches,  I rounded off the ends and smoothed them out with sandpaper and then I went to work getting creative.  

I had quite good fun trying to come up with different designs,  you'll see a few have more natural carved textures,  just for variety. 

Once designed I undercoated all of them white and then painted them with acrylic art paints

Once painted I gave them all a good coating of spray varnish to protect then from all the wand waving and "expecto petronus" casting!