DIY Blue Fireball Using Hot Glue

Hello, my brothers and sisters...

I'm Infinity... I make DIY projects, which I personally love to do... Previously I have already made many projects ..some of them are also on Instructables... After a quite long break for my studies...I'm back with a new project...Hope you all will like this project...

In this Instructable, I have demonstrated the whole process of making my own "Fireball prop".. just using some hot glue sticks... and some basic items, which I think that all you might have already...

As there is a pandemic situation going on and we all are stuck inside our house ... I tried to keep this project as simple as possible... You can always make some changes or improve the project...Personally, after completing the project I pointed out some alternate ideas for my own project, which I may incorporate in a future version of this project ...

So without wasting any more time... let's jump into the build process...^_^

As I mentioned before... This project needs only a few basic tools and items...Which are as follows...

For making the Fireball -

• Glue sticks
• Glue gun
• Iron(a simple one is enough)
• Parchment paper / baking sheet

For making the Light part -

• Colour LEDs (I have used 3 Blue, 3 Red, 3 Yellow, 1 White)
• 2 Switches (One of them is 3 positions dual output one)
• Zero board PCB (Blank)
• 4 Resistors (100 Ohm)
• 9 Volt battery + Cap
• Wire
• Cardboard
• Soldering Kit

*** You can use a Cheap Tea light lamp as the light slope...if you don't want to make a custom one...

For making the pieces... you have to do 3 steps

This is a very hard step so pay attention.

Firstly take two sheets of Parchment papers... they need not be too large...

Now take a glue stick...and cut a 2.5-inch piece out of it...

Then place that piece between the two parchment sheets...

Set the temperature at max...

Press the iron on the papers and hold for few seconds

The Glue will start melting soon

After the glue is melted, spread with a little bit of pressure with the iron

As the glue starts getting cold peel the parchment with both hand

the two pieces should have a nice amount of texture...

** this may take some practice to do it properly (I'm not an expert)

And this is how you have to make each piece...

** If any piece fails or gets messed up..just remelt that batch and do the process again...

Isn't it a hard process? ^_^

The previously made pieces are now needed some shaping...

For that purpose.. just torn the sides with your fingers and try to make all the sides look organic...

This is a very easy process...and I don't think that it's gonna take too much time...

Do this step for every piece...

Now repeat the process and make many of these pieces...I made almost 60 pieces for my whole fireball...

I firstly made 40 of these and after the fireball got a defined shape...I needed some more so I made more pieces...

Don't make too many pieces beforehand. You will understand how many pieces you will need...

I have listed all the necessary parts for this light assembly...You may also use a cheap tea light If you don't want to make one your own... I did all by myself...

Firstly take the LEDs and position them on the PCB board...I here used 4 colours...as stated earlier...you may go with only one or many colours if you want... I took 3 blue, 3 red, 3 yellow ones.. and 1 powerful white one....

**as I am stuck in my home.. I was unable to buy some powerful colour LEDs ..so instead, I used these 5mm LEDs...I will suggest you, to use powerful LEDs...

After you placed the LEDs ... now soldier the LEDs as per my given diagram...Comment down below if you need any help...

I Made this Rough diagram for the wiring part...If anyone of you gets trouble in recreating this project feel free to comment down below... I will try my best to help you...

Take a cardboard piece and cut 2 holes to fit the switches...

fix them in place

attach wires with the LEDs

attach a long wire with a 9-volt battery adapter

test the circuit...

Now take some cardboard and make an enclosure around the parts.... You can also use transparent plastic or any other material if you want.

Congratulation you have completed the hard parts.. Now it's a fun and hot journey ...

Firstly start some small pieces around the LEDs and start forming a fire-like shape...Use those organic sides to make the fire more realistic... after the fire core is formed.. now it's time to add more layers...

Firstly add some height to the fireball ..though this is an optional step and you can easily alter the shape and size but I will suggest making it somehow long to make it more realistic.

After the top portion is complete now add some extra pieces around it and gradually come towards the bottom...

One thing I should mention that You have to be careful while using hot glue ...to attach the pieces...the pieces tend to get soft after getting in contact with new hot glue...so be fast...

As the fireball starts forming keep adding more and more pieces of different sizes and shapes...until you are satisfied with the result...

After all of this madness... Your fireball will be finished... In this step, You can also use some glass paint if you want...

This is completely optional and I didn't do that because have already 4 colors and those will not be suitable with any other outer color...You understand what I wanna say...

Lastly add layers to the very bottom and seal everything nicely ... I'm attaching some reference pictures...for your help... ^_^

Now It's finished...

You can use it as a hand prop.. or as a showpiece...

I used it for both...

**Some pictures shown in this project are taken with one of my ongoing project...

I think that this project will not only be easy for everyone but will also be a collectible item for prop fans...

I basically try to make things that everyone can replicate...

I make things and post them on my channel (link is in my bio)... You can check my other marvel related projects on Instructables (especially my MK 1 arc reactor replica) both on Instructables and youtube...

If you do the steps properly... Then the Fireball should come out strong and this will not look like a cheap project... Though this was made just with hot glue sticks.....

I will suggest one thing... That though the project is super simple... But don't try to speed up the process... Take plenty of time... And patients... So the pieces come beautifully...

Thanks for having a look at my project...

And a great thank you to Instructables for giving me such a great opportunity to show my projects to the world...

For more details and a full video tutorial you may also go to my youtube channel where I will upload the whole process from start to end with more details...(as soon as I can finish the editing...)

Thanks for having a look at this project... Pls vote for this Instructable and also subscribe to my channel for more upcoming content...

** I am not sure but there might be a similar-looking project available on the internet...I might have seen that a couple of years ago...But couldn't find the project anywhere on youtube or Instructables or Pinterest...If anyone can find the owner pls help me to reach them if they want any credit...(Only if really our project is similar)

** Recently I came to know that the original creator I mentioned here is "Katbirdy".. here is the original works - at instagram.com/kat.birdy/ and twitter.com/Kat_Birdy

Direct links to the tutorial posts:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CANhR7CDluj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://twitter.com/Kat_Birdy/status/1236690544962699265

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