Electrified Monopoly - Steampunk Inspired

Step 2 Make the water tower

The water tower lights up when you land on the water company.

Supplies:
- Paper Mache Egg
- Brass tubes
- Sheet copper
- Velum paper
- cardstock
- Blue LEDs
- Wood

Cut the bottom of the egg to make the bottom of the water tower.

Create a wooden base for the legs of the water tower.

Cut the brass tubes in half. Safety!!! Wear safety glasses when cutting metal.

Determine where the holes should fit through the bottom of the water tower (the egg) and drill the holes.

Paint the egg copper.

Wire 2 blue LED's for each set of brass tubes (same technique as the ray gun). I used 4 LED's. I taped them into 2 sets of 2 and wired them in treating the pair of LED's as one. Run the wires for the LED's down the legs of the water tower.

Make a pattern that shows when the tower is lit up (I used gears). Print it on card stock. Cut out the pattern saving the pieces that you want to make shadows.

Glue the cardstock to the velum paper. Glue in the pieces to make dark space.

Glue the velum into a circle. Cut the extra paper into tabs and fold them down (so they will be horizontal when the tower is assembled). Glue a stabilizing piece to the top edge. I used the other half of the egg to determine the size circle needed to stabilize the top edge of the tower.

Cut the extra paper into tabs and fold them like you folded the top edge. Glue the bottom edge into the egg.

Make a top for the water tower out of copper. I cut a circle from sheet copper, cut a line to the middle of the circle and overlapped part of it to make a roof. I used a brass fastener to hold the overlapped area in place. Attach it with lots of glue.

Cover the base in copper. Drill holes through the copper for the legs of the brass tubes.