A woolly tornado

(Mind you this is all a first time thing for me)

So I left the top of for a day so the glue could dry properly. I “drilled” 5 holes roughly evenly spaced in to top circle which would be the to of the tornado. I planned to use this to help me twist the wires evenly around the core. I DID NOT GLUE THE WIRE TO THE TOP!!!! VERY IMPORTANT Which was a lot harder than I thought it would be… I ended up just gluing it in place with hot glue, with the top wire bending slightly to the left. And finishing the prober aliment by hand. As I had not glues them just in case, this was still an option. When I was happy I finally did. I pushed the remaining wire to the centre. Which I had carefully open up a bit… Just in case I needed to put more sand down there.

Some hot glue helped to with keeping an even-ish spacing. (note to selve: don’t use thumb. use pieces of wood)

The metal wire was there to give me a rough idea of a twisting tornado. And also something that would take magnets. I had just bought a new first aid kit, as the old one was no longer sterile. Terrain doesn’t need to be. So I used an elastic bandage to cover the wires bottom to top. Using its elasticity to let it grip the bottom. The top piece I pushed into the top hole which was gripped by the wires. Some liquid super glued made sure it never moved again.

Still not happy. I tinned some PVA down, used my dishwater solution to wet a few spots on top and dripped the PVA on those spots.

The next day I decided to glue some magnets to the wires just to make sure everting I wanted the tornado to hold in the air, would stay in the air. (Yes I did make sure they where all pointing the same way)