Petertiger
Sr Member
Finally made one I'm happy with after a failed attempt with air dry clay sometime ago the other day I saw some solar garden lights in my local garden centre with a clear dome top and a tapered stem and they were reduced to £2.99 each,so I purchased all 5 of them just in case i made any mistakes i then took one apart cut down the stem and turned the dome upside and glued it into the stem to form the Grail cup using the top from a plant pot to make the rim wider and used a couple of large washers for the base,then covered it in a layer of paper mache (newspaper & pva glue) and left it over night to dry and go hard before painting it may not be a perfect match but I'm happy with it, plus as an added bonus because I got it right first attempt I've now got four solar lights in my garden. Another couple of rainy days so i used the time to updated my Grail cup started off by covering it in a very thin layer of air dry clay, which work unlike my attempts to make the cup from just clay, let it dry overnight then sprayed it all gold once dry gave it a coat of clear lacquer and let it dry overnight, i then brush painted it with the red/brown colour i mixed when dry i sanded it off in various areas so the gold showed through, before finally using my airbrush to apply several very light coats of mid grey and light blue to give it the aged weathered look .
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