Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Rusty Lanterns
What haunt couldn't use a rusted out, flickering lantern to add to the creepy atmosphere? These lanterns are painted and textured to appear very old and rusty. The original 'pristine' lantern shown on the box below comes with a very shiny black finish and a stark white LED light. I have removed the stock LEDs and replaced them with a good quality flickering tealight candle. A great feature of the lantern is that it has a nice dimmer switch and operates off 2 AA batteries. By wiring the tealight directly to the switch, I can take advantage of variable electrical inputs which exaggerate the flickering effect from full flicker to a dim sputtering that looks like the lantern is about to go out.
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cemeteries,
halloween,
lantern,
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Awesomeness!!!
ReplyDeleteAny chance of seeing a video of these in action?
ReplyDeleteI love a nice hurricane lamp. I bet they'll look great on Halloween.
ReplyDeleteWould you be interested in posting/emailing a how to for the painting process for these lanterns? keyso@hotmail.com
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reply sent to you email...good luck!
ReplyDeletedo you sell these?
ReplyDeleteIs it just an optical illusion, or is the flame on those tealights abnormally large?
ReplyDeletemostly n illusion...the lanterns aren't full sized.
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