How to Make an Irretrievable Easter Egg

Step 7 Paint the Egg

Next came painting. I cut up a bunch of little diamond shapes from some masking tape and placed them on the unglued areas of the egg. I kinda rushed this step, so I expect others could do a real Martha Stewart number on one of these that would put me to shame. Anyway, I was satisfied.

I had some silver spray paint left over from a previous project, so I opted to use that. It was really convenient having a giant spiral stake sticking out of the egg that I could drive into the ground for painting. A few minutes later and I had an egg bearing an uncanny resemblance to a Holy Hand Grenade.

Once the paint had dried, I peeled off the tape. Considering that I had to overcome the cracked plastic disaster, I was pretty pleased with the results.

Comments

[SuperMoo332]

with the glue painted it looks like welded metal :P

[mrcrumley]

I know. If I ever do this again, I plan to work that into the design somehow.

[WTSerpent]

that could be an instructable all by itself... 'how to make an irretrievable holy hand grenade"

[xenor]

I knew that thing looked familiar!