Army Man Earrings

I stumbled upon these two while looking for Lego in a decaying bag of leftovers from my brother's childhood. I enjoy the army-man/waitress combination because it looks like you're making a political statement when all you're really doing is wearing toys.

                         

Materials required for idea implementation:

• Two army men or any kind of small plastic figurine. These two are Micromen. I'm not sure of they're still a thing.
• A drill with a thin bit
• 4 jump-rings (See Vocab Tab)
• Basic Hooks (See Vocab Tab)
• Round-nosed pliers (See Vocab Tab)

Actions required for idea implementation

The man and the lady of this pair were made differently. The waitress lady was fortunately made angrier than the guy with the gun. Her arm made a good loop for me to put the jump-ring through. The designer of the soldier was not so considerate. I had to drill a hole in the corresponding place on his body to put the jump-ring through so that both earrings would hang at more or less the same angle.

You'll have to go through a similar process of examination and logical hole-drilling in order to attach your first set of jump rings. 

The second set of jump-rings is to make sure that the earrings hang facing outwards. For every one you add you get a 90 degree rotation. Play around with the number you use until you get the right length and angle.

Finally attach the basic hooks to the topmost jump-ring.

Rating

Effort Required: 2/10

The standard drill-a-hole-and-put-a-jump-ring-through-it score for this blog. I would increase it since it's usually more than one jump-ring, but sometimes you don't even need to drill a hole so it all evens out.

Durability: 8/10

The beauty of making earrings out of stuff that was originally intended to withstand children.

Cool Factor: 7/10

Again, this will depend on the figurines you use. Mine are pretty small and light-weight so they tend to go wandering off into my hair. The matching but not really matching thing is cool though. I feel like people get more excited when they have to put in the effort of checking both the earrings you're wearing.