{"id":4204,"date":"2018-02-26T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2018-02-27T00:41:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T07:41:27","slug":"test-of-honour-lanterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=4204","title":{"rendered":"Test Of Honour Lanterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Test of Honour <a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=4164\">Dojo complete<\/a>, it was time to work on the other items that came in that kit: the sword ruler and the lanterns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4196\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-02-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-02-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-02-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-02-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-02-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-02-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-02-900x900.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-02-1280x1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lanterns were the more complicated item since I wanted to pimp mine out a little more.\u00a0 I&#8217;m on a big &#8220;lighted&#8221; components kick so time to light these suckers up as well.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4200\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-06-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-06-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-06-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-06-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-06-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-06-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-06-900x900.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-06.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d seen this pimp first on the Test of Honour Facebook page and it seemed easy enough.\u00a0 After assembling the base and top of the lantern separately, I grabbed some baking paper and cut little rectangles out to glue on the insides of the lantern.\u00a0 This should diffuse the light and make it illuminate evenly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4199\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-05-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-05-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-05-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-05-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-05-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-05-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-05-900x900.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-05.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lamp&#8217;s light diffused easily enough so it was going well.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll notice that the bottom is open as well and since my light will be coming up from the bottom, I need to take care of that opening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4197\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-03-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-03-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-03-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-03-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-03-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-03-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-03-900x900.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-03.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taking a bit of green stuff, I shoved it down the lantern and worked it around the sides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4198\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-04-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-04-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-04-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-04-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-04-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-04-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-04-900x900.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-04.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the greenstuff started to harden, I then scraped and pushed the green stuff that started poking through the bottom back and made it a bit hollow. This went back and forth as I&#8217;d push too deep and then need to rework the inside.\u00a0 Eventually, it got to a point where I was satisfied.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4195\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-01-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-01-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-01-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-01-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-01-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-01.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I let it set up a little more and then painted the green stuff black to help hide it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4202\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-08-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-08-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-08-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-08-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-08-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-08-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-08-900x900.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-08.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I grabbed some electronic tea lights and primed their base.\u00a0 I drilled a hole through the bottom of each lantern base and sat the lanterns on top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4201\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-07-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-07-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-07-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-07-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-07-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-07-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-07-900x900.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-lantern-07.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And done. They turn on easily with a switch and even flicker like the lighted lanterns would.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-swordruler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4203\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-swordruler-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-swordruler-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-swordruler-198x132.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-swordruler-400x267.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-swordruler-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/test-of-honour-swordruler.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, to finish out the set, I assembled the sword ruler.\u00a0 It is hard to tell in this shot but the blade has one inch marks to help maneuver figures around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Test of Honour Dojo complete, it was time to work on the other items that came in that kit: the sword ruler and the lanterns. The lanterns were the more complicated item since I wanted to pimp mine out a little more.\u00a0 I&#8217;m on a big &#8220;lighted&#8221; components kick so time to light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,544],"tags":[575,524,535],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technique","category-test-of-honour","tag-dojo-assault","tag-lighting","tag-test-of-honour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4209,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}