Speed Dial

"Are these any use to you, Auntie?"  

Was asked that question and handed a couple of gears and chain from my nephew's friend's motorbike that he had stripped down.

Needless to say my answer was an absolute 

YES PLEASE!!!!

Can barely lift the largest of the gears but where there is a will etc.,

And as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted it to be a clock

Put off doing it for ages and ages for fear of "ruining" the parts

But then decided that had they not given them to me then they would have languished away in the corner of nephew's garage and be lost ... 

So, yesterday was The Day and I so enjoyed doing it

Called it Speed Dial

Speed - motorbike

Dial - clock

Clever, huh!?!?!?!?!

I KNOW it is not hanging centrally!!!!

I did not want it to

VERY much ... "left a bit ... bit more ... bit more" adjustment went on

So, off-set it is!

It is all very much more 3D than shows in the photographs

I am hopeless at photographs

Had to work hard on  NOT using my safe, preferred colours and actually had out the browns, teals, greens &  blues and the little pots of rust paste and think I would actually like it more had I stuck to those colours but decided to really push myself and use colours I rarely, if ever, use

Needed help with this from hubby as it is so heavy!

Got him to wire the chain to the largest gear

Raided my box of broken watch parts - the sort of box you keep to rummage through but never use

Parts that are beautiful just the way they are

VERY hard to add them - but needs must!

Ingredients :

Wonderful nephews & their mates whom give you fabulous parts to play with

Prima Marketing (Finnabair) 

Art Basics :

Heavy Black Gesso

3D Matte Gel : Heavy Body Gel : Soft Gloss Gel
Art Extravagance :
Graphite Texture Paste

Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint :

Metallique Black Velvet : Opal Magic Violet Green

Art Ingredients :

Glass Glitter - Pitch Black

Micro Beads - Berry

Sweet Poppy Shimmering Silver Acrylic Mist

*** EDITED 28 June ***

Was never happy with the colours of this
Had it on the wall for 4 months now but could put up with it no longer
What on earth was I thinking using purple & silver?!?!?!

Went against ALL the advice to leave well alone
and tweaked it 
Wanted it to look like it was still oily - as if from the garage floor (which it was, of course)
Much happier now!

Colours added over the dreadful purple & silver were:
Art Alchemy Acrylic Paints : 
Metallique Black Berry : Metallique Steampunk Copper
Metallique Midnight Sky : Metallique Dark Velvet
Metallique Emerald Green

Oh, I don't mean the purple & silver were dreadful colours - just my choice of them for this project !!!!!