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Because of the large amount of rock face I needed to cover, I decided to buy some Woodland Scenics rock molds and cast large chunks to expedite things. I used plaster of paris, but knowing that this will see a off of storage & transportation some PVA was added as I mixed it.<br />
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To make the top of the hill more organic I follow the tops of the rocks with a hot knife to give the land an undulating look. I also used some spackle to fill in the gaps between the cast pieces. Before the spackle was completely dry, I rolled a ball of aluminium foil on the joints to texturize it. This helped it blend in with the cast pieces better.<br />
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The next step was to paint the piece. I also embedded bits from a toy dino skeleton on the back side just for some whimsy.<br />
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Now for the water -- after some failed experiments, I went back to what I was used to using: silicone caulk. I placed a sheet of cling wrap down and spread out a sheet of caulk & used a stick to add the flowing texture. This caulk happened to apply white and dried to a translucent clear.<br />
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After it had dried for the most part, I peeled it off the sheet and repeated the process on the back side to bake sure the falls didn't have a smooth underside. <br />
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Once the back side was dry, I cut the sheet into 2 strips that would fit the low spots of my cliff and attached them to the top with hot glue. I layed down more cling wrap under the falls for the next step.<br />
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To create the base of the falls, I poured a small puddle of clear resin under the silicone sheet.<br />
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I released the falls back into the puddle and poured more to spread out the length of the cliff face.<br />
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I also temporarily added a cardboard frame wrapped in cling to hold in the resin at the river's edge.<br />
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After the resin had cured, I dabbed on more caulk to give the water ripples & waves. While the caulk was still wet, I tore small pieces of Fiberfill (like what goes inside quilts) and stuck them to the base of the falls to look like mist.<br />
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<br />This is what it looked like after the caulk dried.<br />
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You couldn't see much of the texture, so I mixed some gloss medium and white paint to dab onto the tips of the waves.<br />
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After adding plants & flock to the top the piece was complete.<br />
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For more of the Wench look for me on Facebook, Google+, YouTube, and Twitter!Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-8832709886801845092014-01-25T23:40:00.001-06:002014-02-13T04:44:25.393-06:00Lizardmen Temple & Spawning PoolConstruction on most of these were pretty straight forward so the WIP photos are kind of lacking. If words aren't your thing. I did put together a tutorial video on doing the stonework and posted it on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXb6EfDrmMs" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. The video tutorial on the water process is <a href="http://youtu.be/b5Fa4os4FCo" target="_blank">Here</a>.<br />
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To start, these pieces were were both made out mostly out of insulation foam using a hobby knife as needed. The stairs were cut from foamcore from the dollar store & the stair walls were cut from a higher grade foamboard from the hobby shop so it was a bit thicker and hot glued together. A corresponding stair well was cut from the pyramid shape & the stair case was inserted.<br />
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Stones were randomly cut in using a hobby knife & then drawn over using a ball point point. The upper left area of this image shows just the knife lines & the right & bottom shows the knife & pen combo.<br />
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Then random stones were pushed in. I just used the tip of my pen, but any hard/flat stick-ish thing would work.<br />
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They were then painted with a dark brown base coat then used a "dry sponge" technique to paint on lighter browns & tans. Using a paintbrush, I dabbed PVA in some nooks & pressed on small patches of green flock.<br />
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For the spawning pool, I painted an extra lizard to hang out & give some movement to the water. An extra chunk of foam was cut & put in the bottom of the spawning pool to help fill up space. I cut down
into the base for the lizard foot & tail too look like he was half
submerged. <br />
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water, I planned on using a clear resin and past experiences have taught me to not give it any cracks to run out of, so I sealed the edges with hot glue to prevent any leaks.<br />
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The water was added in a few layers. The first layer I mixed the 2 part resin as directed. Before pouring, I added 1 drop of dark green wash & stirred briefly. I did NOT mix in fully to have an even tone throughout. After the first layer was dry, I mixed the resin & added a drop of a turquoise paint, stirred briefly, and poured on top. This gives some depth without using a lot of expensive product.<br />
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To make the surface of the water disturbed as if the lizard was
moving, I used a high gloss medium to add the waves. It was easier to
get the medium to stay standing as it dried a bit and became tacky.
White paint was added to the tips as I went to make it look foamy.<br />
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The bases were covered in a mixture of coffee & tea grounds, aquarium & craft plants were for foliage and they were complete.<br />
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Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-39434743743501563232012-12-16T07:09:00.001-06:002012-12-16T07:09:51.228-06:00ObservatoryThere isn't a whole lot to show for WIP on this one because I had given up on it about a year & a half ago. I've since been convinced to finish it and didn't document any of the process after that. But I will show you what I have so you get the jist.
I started with a slab of insulation foam, penned in lines for stones. Then, pushed in random stones to give ti variety.
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For the observatory tower, I attached Pringels cans to the stone base. A regular size can was too tall, so I glued together 2 snack sized cans.
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I wrapped some heavier paper strips around the can to hide the seams & to make it look like they were made out of panels instead of one large tube. Then added dots of PVA glue for rivets. Gathering supplies for the details, I bought a lot on ebay of random gears that I think was supposed to be for remote controlled cars. I also needed a gear track to go all the way around the Pringels can so the top of the tower could rotate. So, I found some corrugated paper meant for scrapbooking and cut a strip off, and wrapped it around the top of the tower.
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I cut the main walls for the building from foamcore; the rod attaching the peaks was added to support them. Repeating the process for the foundation, I made a set of stairs to the entrance.
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I also made a lightning rod by glueing small bits of plastic rod to different sizes of rubber gaskets and a jewelry jump ring.
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The rings were attached to a metal rod with a large bead at the end.
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(Not shown is the spring around the rod I attached from the largest ring.)
I covered the roof, stairs, and borders on the walls in heavy paper to be sheet metal.
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On the back of the building, I put together a silly gear box just for the sake of having an absurd amount of gears in one spot.
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The original intention was to have the observatory dome partially open so you could see inside; so I whipped together a telescope using various types of pen parts & casings. The legs & eye piece of plastic rod.
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This is where I got to before all hell broke loose:
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That dome on the tower had been giving me grief the whole time. I had used a plastic shell that a little toy came in... Well, whatever was in that plastic, my super glue did not want to stick to. Instead of being smart & trying some other kind of adhesive like an epoxy, I just kept using more super glue. I thought that I surely had a sufficient amount on this time so I took the leap and attached it to the tower. While working on another part, the building took a little 1 foot tumble from the arm of my sofa to the cushion of the sofa. Not only did the dome break again, but it peeled off the paint job I had done for the floor of inside & broke a couple other things as well. I got irrationally upset about it, threw it in a corner and ignored it's existence.
Fast forward a year & a half of ignoring it -- I was given the opportunity to have a table set up at the largest tournament in the state and sell some of my projects. So, I started looking to my abandoned projects because A) I would get it out of my house and B) they're already half done. That brings us to this:
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The rails on the roof were made from rabbit fencing with cocktail skewers on the ends and the ends of clock hands on the corners. A new dome was made, except I kept the plastic shell in tact this time. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I put together another quick tutorial video on ground cover.<br />
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<align="left">Wooo! Today is my day! Welcome May of the Dead carnivalers and other table top terrain enthusiasts. My undead contribution will be Egyptian themed. Because if anyone knows how to treat their dead, it was the Egyptians. Basically the idea was to have a mummy busting out of his sarcophagus.</align="left"><br />
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<align="left">To start I found myself a dead Egyptian from Reaper miniatures, and crinkled up some aluminium foil large enough to realistically fit his body if he wasn't so gun-ho. The foil is just going to act as a place holder for the cavity of the sarcophagus.</align="left"><br />
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<align="left">Now for the casket itself, I pressed some Sculpey oven bake clay evenly around the foil.</align="left"><br />
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<align="left">Added a dog head to it for a more Anubis-y feel.</align="left"><br />
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<align="left">For the head dress, I rolled out a piece of clay cut it to shape and added the lines before adding it to the main box.</align="left"><br />
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<align="left">A pair of arms were added with decorative sticks, then I shaped in the details of the face & some hieroglyphs down the body.</align="left"><br />
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<align="left">Once I had everything satisfactory, I baked the sarcophagus in my toaster oven according to the Sculpey directions. Then taking a sharp paring knife, cut the clay in half all the way around deep enough to hit the tin foil. It took a couple passes, but the clay released easy enough.</align="left"><br />
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<align="left">Next, it's time to paint my dude & his fancy box. I wasn't too worried about the right arm & leg because they would end up hidden by the cover anyways.</align="left"><br />
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<align="left">For the floor, I took a piece of foam core, removed the paper cladding, and drew on some more hieroglyphs with a ball point pen. </align="left"><br />
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<align="left"> After painting the floor, I attached the bottom half of the sarcophagus. Also, no respectable Egyptian gets buried without their riches, right? So using <a href="http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/infopages/page443.html" target="_blank">this handy trick I learned at TerraGenesis</a>, I laid the foundation for some gold piles using hot glue.</align="left"><br />
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<align="left">After brushing on some PVA glue, I dumped on gold glitter to cover it. Ideally the glitter would be perfectly round & not the hexagons I have, but whatevs. No one is going to look that close.</align="left"><br />
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<align="left">Using that same idea, I took some more hot glue and added lines for a mass of scarabs escaping for the sarcophagus as well. </align="left"><br />
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<align="left">My buddy <a href="http://nothingunpainted.blogspot.com/2012/05/great-unclean-one-before-2012.html" target="_blank">Neil has some awesome examples of using grains of rice as maggots</a>, so I thought I'd check out using split peas or lentils as scarabs. Unfortunately they were both far too large. Fortunately, I had some plastic beads that were easy enough to crack in half that were a good size.</align="left"><br />
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<align="left">I attached the bead bugs to the trails of hot glue & painted them. </align="left"><br />
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<align="left">Then it was just a matter of getting my dude glued in & the cover glued on top of him. I added a couple more bugs by his foot for good measure.</align="left"><br />
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</align="left">Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-71806756748169237142012-05-27T22:44:00.002-05:002012-05-29T06:38:39.036-05:00Fantasy WindmillI've got a game on my phone called Dragonvale which has lost it's appeal but it does have some pretty neat buidings in it. The hibernation cave was the inspiration for this windmill.<br />
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I basically took the shape & added blades<br />
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For the building structure, I took 5 pieces of scrap foam, stacked them, and smoothed them into one shape with a hot wire cutter. The door & window area were cut with a hobby knife.<br />
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For the roof shape, I cut three different sized circles and cut wedges out of each to create cones. Then I attached them together cock-eyed for a goofy effect.<br />
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I added a dormer face using some foam core, shingled the whole roof & spackled the sides of the building. The spackle was smoothed using a wet paper towel.<br />
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I used some skinny craft sticks and toothpick-sized dowels to make the windmill blades.<br />
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I cut the rest of my wood pieces right away as well so I could stain them together to get a similar color. I use the good ol' Minwax wood stain, but your typical washes or inks would work as well.<br />
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To bring some texture back to the building, I mixed some sand with glue & brushed it on.<br />
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A little bit of paint and a couple of bricks made out of foam core that shaved in half with a hobby knife bring us to this:<br />
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The wood planks were cut to a point & before I pushed them into the foam building, I added Titebond glue to the ends. The strengthening additive in the glue is more than enough to hold the wood plus plenty of weight.<br />
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I had intentions of making metal frames for the window & door, but the curve of the building made that look stupid, so I covered it in ivy instead. Using my glue I drew on the ivy lines & sprinkled it with parsley.<br />
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I painted my shingles using a slate blue, a 'true' blue, then used blister pack foam & stippled on a green color, and finally a mix of a light blue & light green stippled with a sponge as well.<br />
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After attaching the roof I added more parsley and patches of fine turf.<br />
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The blades were a bit tricky. I found this neat nut that had a spinning attachment on it. I don't know what it's called or what it was for but it worked out nicely for this. I glued the blades to the normal flat front of the nut. Then I needed something hollow to fit on the part that rotated without touching that inner ring that held the spinny part on. Lucky I had a wooden dowel the right size.<br />
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(Hindsight Note: I used 3M Gel Super glue to join the wood & the metal thinking it could handle the different substances; at first it worked great. The blades spun like a champ. About a week after I glued them together the wood part snapped off, though. I used a replacement piece & different glue the second time, but the glue was much runnier & got in between the nut and the spinning ring. So, it still spins, but not without being pushed all the way around... I don't know what the proper lesson is here, but I'm sure there is one.)<br />
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Ok, so for some extra support, I drilled a hole into the end of the dowel with a pin vice and attached a small dowel. <br />
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I did the same with the building before adding gobs of glue on the end & shoving the rod through the hole.<br />
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For the ground cover, I covered the base board with spackle & sprinkled it with gravel & sand<br />
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I painted the spackle with a grassy color & lightly sponged the rocks with white.<br />
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Using a mixture of random ground stuff I have, mostly static grass & fine turf, I covered the green areas. Then added patches of grass tufts.<br />
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This windmill was donated to the fine folks at Coulee Carnage to raise proceeds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. You can see more about their tournament <a href="http://couleecarnage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">on their website</a>.<br />
<br />Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-78420465232995889212012-04-27T14:21:00.001-05:002012-04-27T14:21:20.800-05:00Had my first (you can tell if you listen to it) podcast interview. If you have a couple hours to kill, you can listen to it here: <a href="http://www.wiscodice.com/podcasts/ep8_TerrainHaze.mp3">http://www.wiscodice.com/podcasts/ep8_TerrainHaze.mp3</a><br />
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Special thanks to the guys at <a href="http://www.wiscodice.com/" target="_blank">WiscoDice</a> for inviting me on their show.Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-89950767458719104452012-04-11T20:03:00.001-05:002012-04-11T20:03:39.445-05:00Bead Bubbles Video TutorialI got a couple requests for a walk through of the blood bubbles on the Altar of Khaine I made. I thought it would be easiest if I made a video:<br />
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<span class="postbody">and cut the bottom off. I picked up a Reaper mini to be the statue. (It's #3084 if you're wondering.) I was a little put off about the ratio between the pedestal & my mini, but I guess it'll be fine.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">I taped my mold back together along that seam to prevent excessive leaking. Conveniently, my mold fit nicely into my plastic cups. The knob for the center was taped to a bamboo stick which rested on more cups to keep it in place. Mixed & poured the plaster. Then waited for dry time.</span><span class="postbody"> </span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Not the most perfect cast I've ever seen, but that's ok. It's going to get broken anyways.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Getting it glued back together while still leaving gaps was awfully tricky. I'm still not confident in it's strength at this point.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">But oh, to see it glow!</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Started working on some platform stones. I drew them out onto foam core.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Also got my lady together with some extra skulls around her feet. I did end up doing extra glueing on the pedestal which was a good idea, because this has been dropped a good 4 inches onto a table & survived.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Did a marble-ish paint job on everything based on this lovely <a href="http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/infopages/page561.html">article we have here.</a> I definitely think I need more practice, but it's not so bad (not that you can tell from this photo).</span><span class="postbody"> </span><br />
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<span class="postbody">And here's everything together so far.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Did my first ever attempt at OSL painting on her eyes. </span><span class="postbody">The result raises an enthusiastic <i>"Meh."</i> Wasn't expecting much, but I'm not sure it gives off the effect I'm looking for or if she just looks sunburnt....</span><span class="postbody"> </span><br />
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I wanted to have a Dark Elfy looking shrine & altar for killing people on top of a stone platform. Inspired by <a href="http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6826" target="_blank">Ale's Dark Elf Tower over on TerraGenesis,</a> I set to work on creating a sort of spine out of card. They are 8 of the same shape glued together at the core with hot glue. Then panels were cut out to connect them together.<br />
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<span class="postbody">As it turns out, this first shape looked dumb after all of the panels were put on... so did my second attempt. Third attempt worked out more like I was hoping for.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">After I got that figured out, I cut the stone platform out of 1" insulation foam. The altar is also a scrap piece of foam with a bit of foam core under it & spikey corners cut from blister plastic.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Pour in some blood & we're all set to go. For the blood pit, I did a thick layer of dark red colored resin, let that dry, then poured a thinner layer that barely had any red to it, & took a stick with a brighter red (and sometimes black) paint on it & swirled it into the wet resin. Then I put in various sizes of red plastic beads for blood bubbles & dragged some of the resin over them to help them blend into the surface.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Taaadaaa! That's my Altar of Khaine. Thanks for looking! :-)</span><br />
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<span class="postbody"> </span><span class="postbody"> </span>Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-884387373400236852012-03-09T17:53:00.000-06:002012-03-09T17:53:56.754-06:00Terrain Wench StickersBy the way... I have Wench bumper/army case stickers available. Just let me know if you'd like one.<br />
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It was a pretty straight forward build.<br />
I glued a couple layers of insulation foam together for the main head & grabbed a couple of scrap pieces for the teeth.I sliced off some of the bigger chunks with a hot wire cutter, then chipped away at them using a kitchen knife.<br />
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<span class="postbody">After cutting out my hardboard base, I glued down the foam pieces & spackled around them, pushed in some large bits of gravel for rocks, and sprinkled on some sand.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Here's what he looked like after a base coat or two.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Then I painted the rocks, and added some green wash dripping in spots & glued some fine turf on to look mossy. I'm also mid-way through applying PVA for the ground cover for some reason.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">First layer of ground cover was a mix of mostly tea: a black tea & a peppermint tea (the lighter flakes), with a little bit of coffee grounds. If nothing else, my terrain has a lovely smell. :-P</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">This is what it looks like when the base is covered in it.</span><span class="postbody"> </span><span class="postbody"> </span><span class="postbody"> </span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Then I added patches of flock, grass tufts, some random bits like skulls, a vulture, a bagged gnoblar, and a sign. Then we're done.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">(This explains why there's a black background all of a sudden. Wrath Kitty is a photo-bombing pro. :-P)</span><br />
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She is also hard to impress. :-\<br />
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<span class="postbody">Actually, as it turns out - the husband told me when I was planning this project that I couldn't build an Idol of Gork. I inquired as to why; he responded "Because I want one." So I built two of them. Hubby gets Mork, client gets Gork.</span><br />
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Overall, a pretty fun project. Not a fan of the layers of foam being so noticeable, but it'll do.<br />
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And here's kitty with a 25mm fig to show her scale ;-) Thanks for looking, everyone!<br />
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<span class="postbody"> </span><span class="postbody"> </span>Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-76374979175202081522012-02-28T20:02:00.001-06:002012-02-28T20:02:56.670-06:00Sorcerous PortalAccording the rule book a sorcerous portal is... <span class="postbody"><i> prone to appear where certain contours of hill & valley funnel the Winds of Magic in unexpected ways. Many are caged & harnessed by ambitious sorcerers, but wood & stone cannot easily contain raw magic.</i></span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Well that eliminates some stone options I was planning on, so let's focus on "caged & harnessed." To keep it light, created a portal in Photoshop & printed it out on over-head transparency film.</span> As it turns out, that crap is expensive. I went to the Office Max store & 50 sheets that I could print on were between $50-75... not quite what I wanted to drop on plastic sheets. So, I cruised ebay & found 50 sheets for $15 which was much more my price range.<br />
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Now since desktop printers don't print white, I went back with some white paint over some of the lightning bolts to make them more noticeable. These are actually 2 portals printed & set back-to-back. It helps make it less flat, I think. Then, I cut out 2 frames out of street styrene to sandwich them between.<br />
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<span class="postbody">Finally to add some more variety to the landscape, I added some tufts & small pieces of sheet moss.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody"><i> </i></span>Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-63904345390426242592012-01-22T19:32:00.000-06:002012-01-22T19:32:14.172-06:00Now on Google+To those of you that are anti-facebook, I have started a Google+ page as well.<br />
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Hope to see you there! :-)Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-44051117637050925602012-01-02T20:31:00.000-06:002012-01-02T20:31:15.343-06:00Ogre Charnel PitI cut a crater shape out of insulation foam using a hot wire cutter & hot glued it to the base.<br />
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Using a butter knife, I placed the edge against the foam & dragged it downwards against the 'grain' of the foam to roughen the surface.<br />
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After a couple layers of paint it's starting to look a little like a pit. (The recently impaled dudes doesn't hurt either :-p)<br />
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But that's not nearly enough dead guys, so I got a lot of bits together & painted to fill the pit. I covered most of the bottom of the pit in PVA and then put the body parts into that. This gave me time to rearrange them into the proper places before the glued dried. Then I covered it in borwn pigment powder to help hide the glue & help the bodies look dirty & gross.<br />
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To add some more nastiness, I soaked some pink thread in a red & brown wash and layed them around to look like entrails. Also added some ballast as some filler.<br />
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For the outer crater base, I covered it in coffee & tea grounds added planting bark rocks like on the hut & watchtower.<br />
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For the final blood & guts to fill in the gaps I mixed together some red, black, brown & purple washes with some 3 dimensional adhesive called Diamond Glaze. It dries clear like PVA but doesn't shrink as much. Pretty sure I got it from a Hobby Lobby.<br />
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After that & some foliage on the ground the pit is done.<br />
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I glued more craft sticks across those support beams. Then at the ends glued a pieces of a wood dowel I sharpened the end of -- this holds the wire mesh (I think it was rabbit fencing) in place. Then more chunks of wood & metal were glued to the mesh to act as the walls.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The base was covered in a mix of coffee & tea grounds. For rocks I went to the Home Depot & picked up some of this planting bark.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn7lMPbeZ5-B6cLLPOHvfvTfasdUe47wnmHsDULFoIbts-g7UHOC7RsWcVgPbJwOJEyD2-GqRF4nlQ5qSeeQdgew1W_uTqxyGbnWZ87vBPprXKzBzRq6gSzFtdTstn6g-WPbBt1Dgxq1Q/s1600/DSCN4995.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn7lMPbeZ5-B6cLLPOHvfvTfasdUe47wnmHsDULFoIbts-g7UHOC7RsWcVgPbJwOJEyD2-GqRF4nlQ5qSeeQdgew1W_uTqxyGbnWZ87vBPprXKzBzRq6gSzFtdTstn6g-WPbBt1Dgxq1Q/s320/DSCN4995.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> And used a sponge from a blister pack to give a more varied color.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFfmlnne1XjBlj-zN7as50iZGh5D_EIpNi2kzv_28GV869gRg7F6TN4wWNuWR6jbcFE25JeMFlFGmx6cNcxvpnjQeDJHJkVeYHioE27mXoC8w7TKm6UXte36mv_sLLtj1QmTOujh0CPZk/s1600/DSCN5012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFfmlnne1XjBlj-zN7as50iZGh5D_EIpNi2kzv_28GV869gRg7F6TN4wWNuWR6jbcFE25JeMFlFGmx6cNcxvpnjQeDJHJkVeYHioE27mXoC8w7TKm6UXte36mv_sLLtj1QmTOujh0CPZk/s320/DSCN5012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The ladder support pieces are bamboo skewers that I drilled pilot holes in with a pin vice and the rungs are toothpicks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpnSeSWAiuoxJTR-xC8Lx3KEpiqy7ZeHjdFllmBUa4Ybmlm40QQUQcaxIfYuS3f5iX9tUe5uBLvPVBXIDpKpZULVpY1Xopwyn9d9MYL-lgwa4-yWXV9N1XF8orUhF7lW2denJBHfNBQQI/s1600/DSCN4989.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpnSeSWAiuoxJTR-xC8Lx3KEpiqy7ZeHjdFllmBUa4Ybmlm40QQUQcaxIfYuS3f5iX9tUe5uBLvPVBXIDpKpZULVpY1Xopwyn9d9MYL-lgwa4-yWXV9N1XF8orUhF7lW2denJBHfNBQQI/s320/DSCN4989.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you have any questions, please ask -- I know I'm sort of rushing through these. </div>Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-14541594217906083892012-01-02T17:08:00.000-06:002012-01-02T17:08:58.682-06:00Ogre Hut (again)An owner of one of my previous huts wants some companion pieces for it & his ogre army. So the next 3 posts actually all go together.<br />
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Starting with the hut - this is the same as all the others: half of a foam craft ball covered in 'hides'. I used a wire cutter to take a chunk out where the doorway would be. On previous huts my lashings were just painted on or not even seen at all. This time I planned on actually using thread & needle to attach the support posts. To do that, I needed to be able to access the underside of the hides, so I grabbed a piece of plastic wrap & put it over the ball so I'd be able to remove the shell after it dried.<br />
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After it was dry, I could remove the paper shell to do my sewing.<br />
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I took some bamboo skewers, used wood stain to darken them, then snapped 2 joints in them (but not broken all the way through), finally I lightly super glued them into place so they would shift while I was doing the needle work. The needle & thread worked pretty well; it's helps that it doesn't have to be pretty for ogres.<br />
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After a mix of coffee & tea grounds for the base, cedar bark rocks, slashing some mud & blood and painting a few bits we have another hut.<br />
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Let's start with the forest. <span class="postbody">One thing I like this piece is that it in no way needs to look real. So to start- I salvaged a bunch of electrical wire from a machine we were getting rid of at my work and used it to twist together the frame work of a tree. Then, I rolled 6-8 pieces of Sculpey oven bake clay and wrapped them around the trunk, taking one of the strips and ending it on a lower branches as I went. Surprisingly, the plastic wire casing had no problems being in the oven for the designated Sculpey time.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Then I painted them in proper candy cane fashion & gave them a semi-gloss varnish. For the foliage I took some clear plastic, attached it to the branches & smothered them with PVA (top & bottom) to hold some large flake glitter I had.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Do this a few more times & it's starting to look like a forest.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Now, for the basing I mixed baking soda & PVA until it was much like a wet Play-Doh consistency and then sculpted it around the base of the trees.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody"> I did this across the whole forest floor as well, leaving it higher & lower in spots to keep it looking natural. When it was dry, I brushed the ground with straight PVA & dumped on Woodland Scenics snow.<br />
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After that it was just a matter of adding random bits inbetween the large trees, such as: dried flowers, styrene rod I melted & painted to look like traditional candy canes, straight pins, a sprig of branches with 'ice chunks' that like to fall off from Hobby Lobby's Xmas section & white cord from a dog toy that is a lot like plastic sisal rope.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">And while I was taking the final photos of the piece, I realized there's no good angle to shoot this at, so here's a bunch of crappy ones. Hopefully you can get the jist.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Next, I wanted to do a ginormous Xmas tree for the "town square" type of idea. I was debating the easiest way to make the skeleton of an evergreen that size & settled on buying a toilet brush & trimming it to shape. That is, until a visit to my lovely local World Market and found this stylish tree. I usually despise stores that start selling Christmas decor in October, but it came in handy this year.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Then I used a spray adhesive to coat all the branches & then sprinkled on random colors of static grass. I had to repeat a few layers of the spray glue & grass to get it looking full but it in the end it turned out quite nicely. Which of course, means I didn't take a picture. Razz But no worries, I have some close ups of the final piece that show this well.<br />
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So, what's a Xmas tree with out lights? Lame, that's what. What fun are lights, if you can see the batteries? No fun, that's the kind of fun. So, I ended up making a pretty big stone pedestal for the tree out of foamcore. (We'll call it a fountain in the off-season. Does the North Pole have an off season?) To make a cavity for the battery boxes, I started cutting out the foam with an X-acto blade. Then took my wood burner & unscrewed the tip and used the neck of it to clean up the edges.</span><br />
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Then I melted some holes through the top of the pedestal for the light strings to come through & textured the surface with a pencil eraser.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">To act as a cover for the battery compartment, I took a piece of a plastic tube, melted & flattened one end, then drilled a hole into a CD to fit the tube.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">I poked the unflattened end of the tube into the bottom of the base with some hot glue. Now the CD can swing open & close to access the light switches.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Next up: the buildings.</span><br />
<span class="postbody">I started by saving some fallen sticks from the lawnmower man at our local park. Stripped the bark off & hot glued 2 of them together in shape of the perimeter of each building. Then cut & attached the upper half of the walls out of foam core. Like this:</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">What you're looking at is a reindeer barn on the top, Santa's workshop on the right & the post office on the bottom left.<br />
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I covered the sides of the walls in spackle, then dabbed it with a wet paper towel to smooth out the tell-tale goobers. And cut the base of my roofs from cereal card.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">I put some chimneys together but cutting individual bricks from foamcore & gluing them down. Then, I bought a 3/4" hole punch from the scrapbooky section and used it to make some cutesy shingles.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">As far as most shingling I've done, this was actually pretty quick & painless. Pretty soon I had this:</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">I couldn't tell you why, but I have a thing for awnings. So, I took this opportunity to make some for the post office. I just printed out stripes on paper, then cut it out in a shape that'll fold easily & have flaps to glue onto the side of the building</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">I had a couple more sets of LED string lights, so I put them on the barn & post office. Both have working hinged doors to access the battery packs. I obviously already cut the windows for the reindeer out of the barn, so to keep the batteries hidden I added a piece of black cardboard to the inside of each wall about an inch away from the windows. So you can still see in, but not through and the battery has a nice little area to hangout in, instead of sliding around the whole inside of the building.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Time for more snow. Like the forest, I used PVA & baking soda mixed to a paste to press on to the roofs & bases for the bulk of the snow. Then I brushed with PVA & dusted with snow flocking.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">To make Santa's Workshop actually look like a workshop, I made a conveyer out the back to drop toys into the Santa sack. This was made from cutting a shape from cereal card & attaching chunks of bamboo skewers, then glueing strips of more cereal card to the edges.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">And that's about it for these. Here's some pictures of them completed.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Not too much to say or show about this piece. It's just clear resin cast in a hirst arts mold. The directions on your resin box and the <a href="http://www.hirstarts.com/casting/plastic.html" target="_blank">resin tutorial at the Hirst Arts site</a> will explan what you have to do a lot better than I ever could. I didn't have a whole lot of time to cast lots of blocks, so I did what I could: ruins. Every Warhammer table needs ruins, right? :-P</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">For the ice skating pond, I bought a round mirror on clearance at the craft store & lightly sprayed the edges with white primer.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Then I cut out a shape using a CD jewel case to be the ice</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">I used a course sandpaper on it to scratch in trails from ice skates</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Then painted the under side (non-scratched side) with a stippling of white, light blue mixed with a pearlecent, and mythril silver. Using the same PVA & glue snow, I put a couple wads under the edges of the ice layer to keep it away from the mirror a little bit, then formed a slope of snow from the edge of the ice to the edge of the mirror base. </span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Some more random wintery foliage & a park bench and we're done.</span><br />
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Lastly but definitely not leastly, we have a sinister snowman.<br />
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He's 99% sculpted out of clay with arms scratched with a point metal tool, then brushed PVA on him & sprinkled him with Woodland Scenics snow.<br />
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And he wouldn't be sinister without something afraid of him, so I made some quick snow victims as well.<br />
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<span class="postbody"> Also, I don't know if any of you are familiar with Jhonen Vasquez, but in his comics & later his cartoon Invader Zim, he drew most anything that was spooky with meniacal swirls of doom.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody"> Here's the final results</span><br />
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<span class="postbody"> And that is it, blogger land. Hope you enjoyed this - comments & questions are surely welcomed. So long from the North Pole :P</span><br />
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</span>Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-72899167227017163262011-10-06T20:20:00.000-05:002011-10-06T20:20:24.454-05:00The Rest of the WestHere's are the remaining four buildings that go with the <a href="http://terrainwench.blogspot.com/2011/08/old-west-hotel.html">Hotel</a> and the <a href="http://terrainwench.blogspot.com/2011/04/old-west-bank.html">Bank</a> from earlier posts. If I was smart, I would've done all 6 at once but oh well... live & learn. Also, a lot of the techniques are the same as those two projects so I'm skipping through most of the detailed descriptions. Please reference those prior posts for a better walk-through.<br />
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<span class="postbody">I've cut out the floor shape out of foamcore, painted them black, then cut & glued craft sticks to be the plank floor. I'll scratch some extra wood grain in them & then used mixes of Minwax to stain them.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Starting from the top left going clockwise, we have: the whore house (2 story), jail, saloon, undertaker. <br />
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The undertaker floor looks a little funny because it will be holding support beams. It'll be built a little different than other buildings.</span><br />
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For the undertaker, I started by putting in my support beams</span><span class="postbody">.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">And then added thin craft sticks to be the interior slats. I framed up one wall, then did the inside, frame up the next, did that inside, etc. so that I would have more space to get at the wall I was working on.</span><span class="postbody"> </span><span class="postbody"> </span><span class="postbody"></span><br />
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For the outside siding, I'm using strips of thin sheet balsa like I've done in the past & will do on the saloon & whorehouse. The walls for the rest of the buildings will just be made out of foamcore.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">To get the jail walls ready for painting, I cut walls from foamcore, drew on patches of brick & ripped masking tape to hide the bricks from my spackling. </span><br />
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<span class="postbody"> I took the tape off after dry, did some sanding and got a pretty decent result.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">(It was suggested to me that the outside pueblo would've looked better if I dabbed the spackle with a wet sponge before it dried. I'm sure he was right. Keep that in mind for your projects.) </span><span class="postbody"> </span><br />
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The buildings with wooden siding were done with cut 1/2" strips of sheet balsa & applied</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Then used super skinny craft sticks & my hand held miter cutter to do the trim work</span><br />
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<span class="postbody"><a href="http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001816.php">That miter cutter I have</a> sure does save a lot of time compared to the saw & miter box I used to use.</span><span class="postbody"> </span><span class="postbody"> </span><br />
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<span class="postbody"> </span><span class="postbody">Next is painting; did the jail first since that pretty much the only outer treatment it's getting. The base coat was heavy doused with PVA to help keep the spackle from chipping off over the years.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">The dirty look on the lower part of the walls is my first attempt at using powder pigments. I dabbed on some acrylic gel medium & then brushed on the pigment using an old blush makeup brush.</span><span class="postbody"> </span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Painted the whorehouse & saloon as well.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">The hotel & salon roofs will be very similar: flat with balsa shingles.</span><br />
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The jail roof will be flat, with curved tile shingles.The undertaker roof is peaked to give it some unique-ness, and will be balsa shingles as well.</span><br />
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Here's the interior of the whorehouse -- it shows the 2 story layout a little better.</span><br />
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I had a bit of a hurdle coming up with clay tile roofing materials for the jail, but the terrain gods had pity on me & magically turned the tray my pretzel bagels came in into the perfect curvy pattern. I cut about 3/8" strips against the grain and layered them on a piece of cardboard cut to roof size. Painted & done.</span><br />
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And all the exteriors on wooden buildings have been sanded & stained.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Whores have a railing on their balcony now. I did this the same as the hotel -- drilled in pilot holes with a pin vice, glued the tiny sticks into the holes, then glued one long stick across the top.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">I've also gotten a start on the saloon furnishings. Most excitingly the pool table. I made the body out of scraps of craft sticks. Drill the pocket holes with my pin vice, then smooth the edges & made the holes a bit bigger with a round file.</span><br />
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After staining the wood, I soaked a piece of green paper in watered down PVA & started getting it tight into the corners. Word to the wise: cut your paper with round corners instead of square corners like I did. It's harder to fix after the paper's wet & half stuck.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody"> To help encourage the edges to stay, I brushed on pure PVA under & on top of the paper.</span><br />
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Paint up some beads for balls & my dudes are ready to play.</span><br />
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Here's the saloon layout so far. The bar has a hinged part for easy walk-through.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">I made this little sofa from scarps of balsa & popsicle strips shaped by a Dremmel. Some scraps of foam core made cushions then wrapped cushions with wet paper & glued into place</span><br />
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Got my jail cells together using latch hook rug canvas & cereal card. I ended up cutting out every other horizontal row of the weaving because it looked too cluttered</span><br />
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A few paintings, signs & curtains have been printed & put up. Still more of the first two to go though.</span><br />
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Wanted to print out the saloon logo as well, but it got screwed up I just hand painted it instead.</span><br />
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I also made some round, cushion seatees for the whore house. They're made from 2 circles of insulation foam, wrapped in wet, PVA soaked paper with a black wash over the top.</span><span class="postbody"></span><br />
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The whores have been prettied.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">The undertaker has some coffins on display for testing out.</span><br />
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Plus a recent customer in back. He's just sculpted out of clay with wet paper draped over him.</span><br />
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Outsides have been based. This time I used a mix of sand, a little bit of tea, small rocks & cinnamon. No cumin nor onion powder, which was a good call. It was a lot less putrid of a smell than the hotel.</span><br />
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Jail's got some guns & a stove, desk & a bunch of wanted posters.</span><br />
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Saloon has the pool cues up, bottles, 4 loose chairs for game play and a shotgun.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Thanks for viewing- until next time! :) </span><span class="postbody"> </span>Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-55853945227168206712011-08-29T11:51:00.113-05:002011-10-06T18:10:24.368-05:00Old West Hotel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Much like my other western buildings, I started with cutting my walls & floor out of sheets of foam core. Where the walls join, I cut the foam core at 45-ish angles & glued them together with a low-temp hot glue gun. The floor is still separate at this point because it'll be easier to adorn my walls in future steps.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_OIQ6ID1EMsdWVDhKvLUeM_begYtzUQ-A7DEHuciTVYp_FYdRopl-oal94V9Zful3Xham48LQJEU7o0PzsVvZljYSH_q9ef9iZ2k7SV_FR_26_NtFPvBuz7wP2x3j0uVJIHOWrXQHKg/s1600/32747.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_OIQ6ID1EMsdWVDhKvLUeM_begYtzUQ-A7DEHuciTVYp_FYdRopl-oal94V9Zful3Xham48LQJEU7o0PzsVvZljYSH_q9ef9iZ2k7SV_FR_26_NtFPvBuz7wP2x3j0uVJIHOWrXQHKg/s320/32747.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaprBBFuGH0IW334WZ00-Yiq8KsEJv5nH67gLb9h87vd0z6RPbMA_9PH4bToH4qJm1WTkxEq9yfLizJAxf486BuyWSvxfgOC76tYeAA5bhF2v2awfuIGkmeIfcuMXrd2SAHKzBJxmK8VE/s1600/32748.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaprBBFuGH0IW334WZ00-Yiq8KsEJv5nH67gLb9h87vd0z6RPbMA_9PH4bToH4qJm1WTkxEq9yfLizJAxf486BuyWSvxfgOC76tYeAA5bhF2v2awfuIGkmeIfcuMXrd2SAHKzBJxmK8VE/s320/32748.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">I planked my floor with popsicle-sized craft sticks, then took a metal pointy tool & scraped in some deeper lines to enhance the wood grain & applied Minwax woodstain.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_RXRgGTM7qVauxFbeOXtuICkRrovh0Ix5HHP6UvZ4Z2_wJfKORPPI3uEQu1w3_tLpcZr4BsevJnoOU6ncrSYZZuqWNbzbtLEMEoWhKLOZbwxXBzzQhct5Qe3dHirO3H0fGSZMrzZZN0/s1600/32749.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_RXRgGTM7qVauxFbeOXtuICkRrovh0Ix5HHP6UvZ4Z2_wJfKORPPI3uEQu1w3_tLpcZr4BsevJnoOU6ncrSYZZuqWNbzbtLEMEoWhKLOZbwxXBzzQhct5Qe3dHirO3H0fGSZMrzZZN0/s320/32749.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Of course we need some stairs to get to the 2nd level, so I cut the main support out of foam core & added some more craft sticks to the tops & sides of the step areas. For playability's sake, I put landings in that fig's bases can comfortably stand on.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwPEQSzI73myEJIk3j3tD47c0vzyMipoXBshOM7OLQH2hBKsRc4EguFyVO_sDjR5NtgZhKKw15X0YvboCphSyyEFZK_CVnb7I_9NzqZmKE_rmdsA8pFB3URv1dkDz_BD0iLB6M-XiRtM/s1600/32753.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwPEQSzI73myEJIk3j3tD47c0vzyMipoXBshOM7OLQH2hBKsRc4EguFyVO_sDjR5NtgZhKKw15X0YvboCphSyyEFZK_CVnb7I_9NzqZmKE_rmdsA8pFB3URv1dkDz_BD0iLB6M-XiRtM/s320/32753.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The stairs along with some more interior walls and we've got the floor plan to level one. I don't show it, but to help keep the 2nd floor from moving around when they're stacked, the top floor has an extra piece of foam core cut smaller & sets inside the main outer walls and the inner walls of the 1st floor are .25" shorter than the outer walls to fit that extra piece.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMnGSHMb5GxU6-M6M7So5y7oBTquGgr0D40_LpzmJ9l1z7kgDkn_P0LPXBKJ01WtC5seYIxv4aDxKwueiZq20WGmGAeHmqThhd04eVoPBL73ACPIdgS-IVAbNqmRPOVcnnVDvk6V1LMT8/s1600/32752.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEciKh0-YnlSM_QBDMP7FxenbIF71XQS-NbQaWEc5BrFPNFu33b8beY0nCk7tFX_mkKOYqQiuHo7G6bqL3_Pyaak41nriy0kjsuuc-MBNLiBes7dXaVXZFz-qarsEt4m5Vir9XLTQREUA/s1600/32750.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEciKh0-YnlSM_QBDMP7FxenbIF71XQS-NbQaWEc5BrFPNFu33b8beY0nCk7tFX_mkKOYqQiuHo7G6bqL3_Pyaak41nriy0kjsuuc-MBNLiBes7dXaVXZFz-qarsEt4m5Vir9XLTQREUA/s320/32750.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Here's level 2:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMnGSHMb5GxU6-M6M7So5y7oBTquGgr0D40_LpzmJ9l1z7kgDkn_P0LPXBKJ01WtC5seYIxv4aDxKwueiZq20WGmGAeHmqThhd04eVoPBL73ACPIdgS-IVAbNqmRPOVcnnVDvk6V1LMT8/s1600/32752.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMnGSHMb5GxU6-M6M7So5y7oBTquGgr0D40_LpzmJ9l1z7kgDkn_P0LPXBKJ01WtC5seYIxv4aDxKwueiZq20WGmGAeHmqThhd04eVoPBL73ACPIdgS-IVAbNqmRPOVcnnVDvk6V1LMT8/s320/32752.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Time for wall paper. I printed off various patterns on a laser printer (this</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">will not</span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">work with inkjet printers - inkjets are waterbased & will bleed when wet) and cut them into strips that correspond to my wall heights, covered the backs with glue, smoothed onto my walls, & then when they were dried, I cut out the windows & doors... In hindsight, I hosuld've paid closer attention to making the corners tighter. Some of them I didn't get the paper all the way into the joint, so it looks funny.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguOYUjB107wp45NaIBfeRiMQ8GIFyivd-qd57qhcn-PpifrqSX5XgGLJKUnNk9kUuuvHHMYv6XC2WI_jCvcPbTSfNLzVkGNh6fRSY2956LXBD1IFymttDW4QajfB8UDOzEOiKdxYd0fts/s1600/32754.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguOYUjB107wp45NaIBfeRiMQ8GIFyivd-qd57qhcn-PpifrqSX5XgGLJKUnNk9kUuuvHHMYv6XC2WI_jCvcPbTSfNLzVkGNh6fRSY2956LXBD1IFymttDW4QajfB8UDOzEOiKdxYd0fts/s320/32754.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Also, what's a hotel without some can-can dancers, so I'm putting in a stage. What good are can-can dancers if you can't see ergo the stage needs some lighting. Taking some sequence, a drinking straw & styrene rod I made some candle holders with guards.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih12eQDXJW3JZS1jGaGAUSFSzvJ_E4j4WqxhErP-qweJrm1ugl-y-nhdTeWuHegHnEXJutVDDiqgTdvg0xp5DaOaHxAueLzmjbaZgdMgxg0PEwDl_1xwC4mGfoI_4juShkcKPH5JQutKI/s1600/32755.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih12eQDXJW3JZS1jGaGAUSFSzvJ_E4j4WqxhErP-qweJrm1ugl-y-nhdTeWuHegHnEXJutVDDiqgTdvg0xp5DaOaHxAueLzmjbaZgdMgxg0PEwDl_1xwC4mGfoI_4juShkcKPH5JQutKI/s320/32755.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">For the flame on the candle, I took some Crystal Clear silicone caulk, mixed in some Vallejo transparent orange & yellow, then dabbed the ends of the candles into it to get a good gob on them.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMRCBtt2-dqpy1vcSe1_Wb7eKFkKaQZcARrnwr6N4S7gypvBrL2iFg1EBU0iPkB60v-l1lXbiQlBeMW47NL8oCCWe_d74nIxixIfdJMJnmFHgMSToGGyQObM2Z48M36X5KOHGhy7faQLQ/s1600/32756.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMRCBtt2-dqpy1vcSe1_Wb7eKFkKaQZcARrnwr6N4S7gypvBrL2iFg1EBU0iPkB60v-l1lXbiQlBeMW47NL8oCCWe_d74nIxixIfdJMJnmFHgMSToGGyQObM2Z48M36X5KOHGhy7faQLQ/s320/32756.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">They were hard to glue together straight because nothing is holding those candles in, but they look alright.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHyJMmrMWl8HnDx2nl1IDnjf60xwviueGAWLR5sPRbtA1UWBN8imy4h-QFOUs5l4k-jo_alynE3JGJ0JPsSh7J7dxYSB8ulcuu3HTdxpDgQYm2En_uhy3fFSZExLDrFg9k5h9jt4reels/s1600/32758.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHyJMmrMWl8HnDx2nl1IDnjf60xwviueGAWLR5sPRbtA1UWBN8imy4h-QFOUs5l4k-jo_alynE3JGJ0JPsSh7J7dxYSB8ulcuu3HTdxpDgQYm2En_uhy3fFSZExLDrFg9k5h9jt4reels/s320/32758.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Ok, so wall paper is up & stage is in (white area behind stage will be painted black & covered with a curtain). The inner walls look a little wonky right now because they're not glued in place yet (the floor still isn't either). I still had to put the wood trim in around all the doors & windows and the more I could maneuver around them, the easier it was going to be.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0gBaECjG1a6v6LEELwxa7QnqeENJWqZ5BqS0vn5rC4F12A8CklsXC2qxa0HoK3tWBpdBxJdxe7rtDf674GD5yexSt5SYWml0Cf9Q5PNH7jcDxW5kyHwdbYvRyVhKp4zeQu6dEg_ZlQo/s1600/32760.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0gBaECjG1a6v6LEELwxa7QnqeENJWqZ5BqS0vn5rC4F12A8CklsXC2qxa0HoK3tWBpdBxJdxe7rtDf674GD5yexSt5SYWml0Cf9Q5PNH7jcDxW5kyHwdbYvRyVhKp4zeQu6dEg_ZlQo/s320/32760.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-qHTbAdPqQARPEKtkRJQr3UbSgeK_mGZ_e7op_r9ArCukxKRidADtjyra5TTlae1qIZ6BbcE9UhodlsAaSq6gwxpmstHTP3Hml6ovzBf34i7Z0qNxcuoK6vH2Y0LjVmQ529EkpxH9_E/s1600/32762.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-qHTbAdPqQARPEKtkRJQr3UbSgeK_mGZ_e7op_r9ArCukxKRidADtjyra5TTlae1qIZ6BbcE9UhodlsAaSq6gwxpmstHTP3Hml6ovzBf34i7Z0qNxcuoK6vH2Y0LjVmQ529EkpxH9_E/s320/32762.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Next, I took strips of sheet balsa, stained them, & trimmed all the edges of all the doors & windows, plus the inner depth of the foam core. Then finally hot glued the floor & all the walls in place. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">And kitty posed for scale</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><img alt="Razz" src="http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/forum/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" style="cursor: move;" /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsVMmhheE8ACe9D_06azvXfVBlf3FfDUfEdrDig3F-v5tBZeEzBBYZnaAXgREuD7rFDjtrHhNbPWKqksRyYXsRViafSkPJLdDZBl9k_PRfDEUjWJEzDO8am6z8eo2N8i22jzh4K3K0WmM/s1600/32769.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsVMmhheE8ACe9D_06azvXfVBlf3FfDUfEdrDig3F-v5tBZeEzBBYZnaAXgREuD7rFDjtrHhNbPWKqksRyYXsRViafSkPJLdDZBl9k_PRfDEUjWJEzDO8am6z8eo2N8i22jzh4K3K0WmM/s320/32769.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">That initial sets of stairs you saw did have to get adjusted a little bit, because I forgot to make it .25" shorter to compensate for the drop from the 2nd level. I am pretty pleased with how it lined up in the end though.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHivlRBQpjGY-O5XoOzdp-rGPxbLMjnWcahfn9bcc-cRNCibnHo385KyzSaBwGsSP6brkKQ5qoB53zPcBTYgOWZC3bVrAUEK_9jjio3ko8AnQQCyg-UzQVq-ACKZ7dULuwFIdgT52KI5U/s1600/32768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHivlRBQpjGY-O5XoOzdp-rGPxbLMjnWcahfn9bcc-cRNCibnHo385KyzSaBwGsSP6brkKQ5qoB53zPcBTYgOWZC3bVrAUEK_9jjio3ko8AnQQCyg-UzQVq-ACKZ7dULuwFIdgT52KI5U/s320/32768.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">I did all the siding & outside trim work with strips of sheet balsa.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1M-8iU6NVFyfyjRNvi-vOHw1gOzXxgXso208Aw5a7lVndkq7NeC-lvV5PjoTqJ32XGz8aRAh9t4l4513RdOaSuDD4oxatWMEFzxx3xMP57MK-Mn-iJftHxsys1s9sDbTnF2JPawv6n4E/s1600/33100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1M-8iU6NVFyfyjRNvi-vOHw1gOzXxgXso208Aw5a7lVndkq7NeC-lvV5PjoTqJ32XGz8aRAh9t4l4513RdOaSuDD4oxatWMEFzxx3xMP57MK-Mn-iJftHxsys1s9sDbTnF2JPawv6n4E/s320/33100.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4jLAXxNvioSQAF0Qx9Bxw_7RHl-pWabn-6nxTGoH6HntDRoR0Gs0dujAjNCDMnbOwiKjJNMvs5TJnTpQNHR4Gnnkn9gsUeZ-FEuleGnEv47XEWnMcdEBQNI_pAuFl0Q2GEiqMN0XcaHE/s1600/33102.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4jLAXxNvioSQAF0Qx9Bxw_7RHl-pWabn-6nxTGoH6HntDRoR0Gs0dujAjNCDMnbOwiKjJNMvs5TJnTpQNHR4Gnnkn9gsUeZ-FEuleGnEv47XEWnMcdEBQNI_pAuFl0Q2GEiqMN0XcaHE/s320/33102.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span><br />
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Then as previous buildings, I painted the whole thing & then sanded it in various areas to look like it chipped off. I'll be doing a grey/brown stain over this, but I want the rest of my outdoor wood done so I can stain them all at the same time. I didn't grab a photo of the painting stages, but you'll see it in the other pics.<br />
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I'm having a wooden plank sidewalk around the front/sides of the building as well as a wooden plank balcony. To make sure the balcony was stable enough to hold a couple of models & out of the way so the 2 floors could still fit together properly, I poked a bamboo skewer into the side of the building, & attached it to the bottom of the balcony.</span></span></span><br />
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So far it looks like this:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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I had originally intended to make fancy railing banisters on the balcony by sanding down toothpicks, but I realized I wouldn't have enough length on the banisters to really do anything. Instead, I made the balcony support beams fancy by using a power drill & sandpaper to shape the middle of them.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidxC5q5ePRW8Ht3G1EZddZP9Xmm_wHbwBW7z79GGjMi9S-MZU2sZXasBhrWne9RR9ug4R1ZlmWkj0k-U3nFLlYh8SdTT8QOuYZYo-kkeGjac_O0GQh8ulDPPgzmIe58M-YZdjp3xVz5z4/s1600/33106.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidxC5q5ePRW8Ht3G1EZddZP9Xmm_wHbwBW7z79GGjMi9S-MZU2sZXasBhrWne9RR9ug4R1ZlmWkj0k-U3nFLlYh8SdTT8QOuYZYo-kkeGjac_O0GQh8ulDPPgzmIe58M-YZdjp3xVz5z4/s320/33106.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="214" /></a></span><br />
Here's a </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHsWuNeh6Mc"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Melly's eye view video</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">of how that worked.<br />
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Looks pretty good on the building.</span></span></span><br />
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So, next I'll get the railings for the balcony cut, build the outdoor stairs, & all doors leading outside then I'll be ready to stain... </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The main sign is just sheet balsa, cut in circles & painted.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHu0Ae2SqoAMG5jqMUQ89zwKOptODBFE7eJxLS9fLKxbqaehfTTSoTFEC-acNKzPZvgfvSK2nbytBmXIKB9WSHJ2-rwDApdzYbM7bER1eRaSAKCDQP3CDn6CwPuYhIRi1uko-9JQc_A0/s1600/33318.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHu0Ae2SqoAMG5jqMUQ89zwKOptODBFE7eJxLS9fLKxbqaehfTTSoTFEC-acNKzPZvgfvSK2nbytBmXIKB9WSHJ2-rwDApdzYbM7bER1eRaSAKCDQP3CDn6CwPuYhIRi1uko-9JQc_A0/s320/33318.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHu0Ae2SqoAMG5jqMUQ89zwKOptODBFE7eJxLS9fLKxbqaehfTTSoTFEC-acNKzPZvgfvSK2nbytBmXIKB9WSHJ2-rwDApdzYbM7bER1eRaSAKCDQP3CDn6CwPuYhIRi1uko-9JQc_A0/s1600/33318.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span> Roof base is just thin cardboard with small rectangle shingles from more sheet balsa glued on in rows.</span></span></span><br />
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Stairs are sheet balsa, with square dowel supports & craft sticks. I made the upper most platform connected to the second level, but still resting on the rest of the case when the 2nd story is in place.</span></span></span><br />
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I finally had everything ready for a mass staining</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdnSXFmVFKMM7fBBP0w6ZjSL7GP6G3-OCtWDn6EuGzxOJ1VdmLhYcJwwmSQylVThcuBqvr6aKAOocpCbL9mVQycVADV9HiDYNBURHmtXKtrk9rJ1u-Lfy_BbqMVvhuj7hNka84HZ1Qx7U/s1600/33321.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span> Black wood stain was far too dark for the look I was going for so I mixed it with some of the 'natural' I had... and by some, I mean a lots. I didn't measure out my ratio but on the left you can see how much natural stain filled the cup, then after the black was added the level is barely more than before.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMjT5r9jXMTCKvALFWvdWKaB6h6z_wO5fNf4gHpZUt34TNk4H7JW_TJaXJ9amd3c0K2Q_8zgcp2H3RmR-y5ITu2WJprySa_Cr5IPzGEjYOESfcbtsPHsHPqJ7mRW1aw3i6nMWfela2ndM/s1600/33322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMjT5r9jXMTCKvALFWvdWKaB6h6z_wO5fNf4gHpZUt34TNk4H7JW_TJaXJ9amd3c0K2Q_8zgcp2H3RmR-y5ITu2WJprySa_Cr5IPzGEjYOESfcbtsPHsHPqJ7mRW1aw3i6nMWfela2ndM/s320/33322.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMjT5r9jXMTCKvALFWvdWKaB6h6z_wO5fNf4gHpZUt34TNk4H7JW_TJaXJ9amd3c0K2Q_8zgcp2H3RmR-y5ITu2WJprySa_Cr5IPzGEjYOESfcbtsPHsHPqJ7mRW1aw3i6nMWfela2ndM/s1600/33322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span> Once everything was dry & less stinky, I started getting the loose bits attached. To help keep the balcony railing stable, I took my pin vice & drilled in pilot holes for the banisters. I was a worried about not keeping them straight down the line so I made a quick guide stick so they were all put the same distance from the building.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-hmEnaa4nYLC4wCBTxIyL1QnHazYOzfVsjkCcG4VBc4pjcUF88sbgEIooWHcBpOeqYpfndRdx9tC2dzZo-eIJn6adllWoxePOYjNruaGkC2AIem9uO7BgXChCeclgPav92UcVjv79yHQ/s1600/33323.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span> Repeat that dozens of times, glue on a strip of balsa across the banisters, glue the support posts to the sidewalk and outside walkways are done.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij2xDbg2COQl2r7r5wwKiqtuENavuHi6UhqotqIDXCNGBT3baKeNj6wViAuvmJw82Y8OUbpoZuuZ5-9Av9GPlTSRCAPQLgzl-KSAMUVC_6aBqN7vNIHIlUDO6RK70C0gTaVX3TwXrhATs/s1600/33324.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij2xDbg2COQl2r7r5wwKiqtuENavuHi6UhqotqIDXCNGBT3baKeNj6wViAuvmJw82Y8OUbpoZuuZ5-9Av9GPlTSRCAPQLgzl-KSAMUVC_6aBqN7vNIHIlUDO6RK70C0gTaVX3TwXrhATs/s320/33324.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD1x6iiHrtYbUPCzsH9e_RG0f6pU0l08_1T8WrnKiTSBsp3hFvYZMxebWcuYpCs9U-tO7_cmGsHfx5qf05gXaEo4zhSoo2DC9ct5MPjakBVPAXXlgXanUKiTq7FMPL2nWQQMbzeIuxfnw/s1600/33326.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD1x6iiHrtYbUPCzsH9e_RG0f6pU0l08_1T8WrnKiTSBsp3hFvYZMxebWcuYpCs9U-tO7_cmGsHfx5qf05gXaEo4zhSoo2DC9ct5MPjakBVPAXXlgXanUKiTq7FMPL2nWQQMbzeIuxfnw/s320/33326.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span><br />
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Next I'll start working on the interior furnishings. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Mostly everything is made from crafts sticks & sheets of balsa, then stained with Minwax. Here we have a couple framed paintings, a front desk, benches for the concert hall, a few tables (the supports are wooden spools), a backing for key pegs, and shutter doors to enter the hall.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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I also made a piano that you haven't seen yet, but to make the foot petals I heated up some styrene rod with a lighter & then flattened the end like this:</span></span></span><br />
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Also made some beds out of craft sticks, balsa & bamboo skewers. I rounded the head/foot boards using a dremel. Then, I put in some chunks of foam core to be the mattresses.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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</span></span> Here you can see the finished piano, beds made & couple of dressers.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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The first stage curtain didn't turn out very well. I had some red satin ribbon that I pushed wire through but it wouldn't lay nice:</span></span></span><br />
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There's still more furniture to make, but I put these into place to get them out of my way... </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Y96sGKgp3us0l2afO9D7W-T4kpJDMaCB9Y8jagdTG1j_MBYYvOnfkF1rB02DZvND66uMIp9WRXftvQProJSDKKIz9MX55gyC4qj6SUfUWCgv9z7Y3faVn9V5yUixCZIfwo7fdgNhRjk/s1600/33546.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span>oh yeah, I made a cuckoo clock too.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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Here's the front desk with key holder.....</span></span></span>Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-2560227895228514582011-08-20T08:17:00.001-05:002012-01-15T16:02:48.808-06:00Wizard's Summer Tower<span class="postbody"> I started with cutting my insulation foam into circles, the bottom ones have an "arm" extending off the shape that'll turn into a bridge/ramp.<br />
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Then, I had at it with a couple of hot wire cutters to give the tower a bit of a flare at the top & bottom, and the ramp its shape<br />
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I wanted to add a couple binary towers using the tube from some wrapping paper. To get it to mimic the main tower's shape I cut slits into the end, spread it over the bottom of a plastic cup and taped the outside & then the inside into place<br />
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A couple bridges & some hot glue later we have a neat little layout</span><br />
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The area on the top of the main tower is where the unit of dudes can be perched. When not in use, there will be a removable roof that can be put back on.<br />
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Then, I sanded all the foam down to smooth everything out, and did a coat of gesso on the whole thing. I'm trying a new stone technique for me: rolling a ball of DAS air-dry clay & pressing them on as cobble stones. </span><br />
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I've used Sculpey oven bake clay a lot and this is definitely a different kind of consistency & texture to it. I don't think I like using it just on it's own, but for this in particular it didn't work very well. They wouldn't stick to the foam as well as I had hoped. So, I had to coat a small area with spray adhesive first, then press on the clay.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Getting the whole thing covered in stones took waaaaay too long. </span><br />
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<span class="postbody">I'll probably not do that again on such a large area. I've since found textured scrapbook paper that looks like cobblestones or was given the idea by a cake decorator to use a fondant roller. So, there are alternatives out there. </span><br />
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<span class="postbody">The next tedious task was painting all the stones. In my mind it would have been an easy drybrushing/sponging that would only hit the stones & not the recessed mortar areas. Of course that didn't work. The shape the stones have from me pressing them is more hill-like. So the edges are rather thin & the middles are rather thick. To get coverage on the whole stone, I really had to get in there on the edges which painted my mortar too. I didn't want to, but I bit the bullet & hand painted each & every stone.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">For the removable roof, I had cut square holes into the foam floor to fit some square dowels I had. The whole floor was then covered in more clay & had stones etched into them. For the roof itself, </span><span class="postbody">I cut out a circle that would be the bottom of the roof & made corresponding holes for the dowels. To make sure everything lines up right when separate, I put the dowels in the holes first & assembled the roof while they were in there.</span><br />
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I attached it to the series of cones that will be the roof. On the building it looks like this:</span><br />
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And off it looks like that</span><br />
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To shingle the roofs, I took the circles that come out of a hole punch & glued them on to the main cardboard shape in rows. One thing I learned here was: not all hole punches are created equal. The 3 hole punch at my work was larger than the hand held I have at home. The different sizes do come in handy because the smaller circles lay nicer on the steeper part of the roof. I just wish I had known that ahead of time so I wouldn't have already done 2 of them with only large circles.</span><br />
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Here's all the roofs in place. The dowel/hole setup is pretty nice. It stays in place - you could do cartwheels with it. </span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Taking it off is pretty easy & putting it back took a little bit of fiddling so I tapered the ends of the dowels which helped a lot.</span><br />
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<span class="postbody">Here's all the roofs shingled & primed.</span><br />
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While perusing the bead isle at the craft store, I found some neat bead spacers that I'm going to turn into torches. I grabbed a bead that would sit down into the cone a bit to be the base of the flames.</span><br />
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Using the same fire technique I did in the Teepee Town, I mixed up some magical colors with my clear caulk...</span><br />
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And then loaded them onto the beads in a flame-y fashion. I tried to make the different colors kind of twist around each other, but it didn't come out as great as I had hoped.</span><br />
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Glue the flame into the spacer & we've got our selves a torch.</span><br />
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Also, I tried using <a href="http://www.sceneryexpress.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MN93632">Silflor Ivy</a> based on raving reviews by another modeler & didn't much care for it:</span><br />
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The picture sucks, but it seems so messy to me and a lot of the little leaves fall off so it just looks like a wad of hair you pulled from a drain clog. I may just need more practice working on it, but I didn't have the time or patience for it anymore.<br />
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Instead, I found an example of ivy using Parsley flakes that seemed to look alright so I did a test piece like that. I took some spanish moss I had & tacked it in place with a low temp glue gun. Then, I brushed it with PVA, sprinkled on the parsley, shook off the excess and got this:</span><br />
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I liked that a lot better & it was quicker than the pre-made stuff, so I started putting it on the towers.</span><br />
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You can see in the early roof shots that I had covered the whole base with a thin layer of Woodland Scenics blended turf:</span><br />
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After all the ivy was on, I started doing the rest of the ground cover by spraying an area with a spray adhesive, then sprinkling on random patches of Woodland Scenics course turf - some in light green some in dark green - in about half of the area that was sprayed:</span><br />
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Then sprinkling varying colors of static grass in the remaining areas:<br />
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And finally went over all of that with another thin layer of the same Blended turf to cover any spots that may have been missed. Most shook off when I was getting the excess off, but some stayed even over the other layers and gave it a nice rolling meadow-y feel.<br />
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Random bunches of large clump foliage in 2 different colors were spot glued on to be bushes (some glued to dried grape stems to be trees):<br />
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Finally, I put around random grass tufts from Silflor. Some just normal grass, some with little blossoms on it:<br />
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<span class="postbody">And that was my ground.<br />
I also painted up some random bits, glued them on & called it done.</span><br />
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</span>Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-49010877810751945582011-06-11T15:25:00.001-05:002011-06-11T15:25:50.631-05:00A New Way to Watch the WenchI've created a Facebook page for myself. That is where I plan to do (nearly) daily updates on what I've built that day, problems I'm having, etc. I find it a lot easier to communicate with 'fans' there. So please, feel free to follow me on Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#%21/pages/TerrainWench/216334321731551">Terrain Wench</a><br />
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I will still be checking & updating this blog spot as well, but it's really acting as my archive of finished projects more so than an actual blog. Thanks & I hope to see you there!Terrain Wenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13939716613125667371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027446780388007431.post-54127047361585321782011-04-16T11:20:00.000-05:002011-04-16T11:20:32.940-05:00Old West BankI started by cutting the walls & floor base from foam core. The building dimensions will end up roughly 7" wide, 6" tall and 9" deep.<br />
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Floor boards were made from Popsicle-sized craft sticks, which I enhanced the woodgrain on using a pointy metal tool we have for some reason. Also, I've learned from experience that these craft sticks are not all straight, so I painted the base of the floor black so that when these sticks don't butt-up nicely, it looks like shadows.<br />
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Then it's on to spend some quality time with the miter box & cut the sticks into random board lengths.<br />
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Anyways, the 'stain' I used was basically 5 parts sepia, 5 parts orgyn flesh (has a reddish tint), 2 parts vallejo smoke, & 2 parts water<br />
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This gave the wood a nice walnut color - especially if given 2 coats, but it seemed too monochrome to me...<br />
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...so I added a wash of Tamyia smoke to some of the planks to darken them. After a couple of small dots at the ends of each board for nail heads & the floor's done.<br />
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On to the outside - I bought some sheet balsa & cut it into 3/8" strips to use as siding.<br />
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To make sure I keep the slats in straight lines, I draw them onto my foamcore at 1/4" intervals to compensate for a little of the strip's width to overlap the slat below it. Then working from the bottom up, I glue on the balsa trying to alternate the seems of the boards as much as possible.<br />
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After trimming off the over-hang, I cut more balsa to frame all the windows & doors, and well as cover the doors themselves.<br />
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For a little extra flare, I took some scraps from decorative dowels I used on a different model, & cut them in half.<br />
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and added it to the front of the building with some other wood pieces to make a decorative crown. I also sanded the bottoms of them so there would be a smoother transition.<br />
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Here's the bare walls connected to each other & the floor<br />
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Finally, I went over the whole shebang with a gray & dark brown wash.<br />
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I wanted to make a fancy window, so I found a western font & printed out a mirror image of it so I could paint it on the inside of the window. I figure that it will have less of a chance of getting scratched.<br />
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Painting-wise, I did it in layers starting what would be the top color when viewed from the outside (white), then applied the green and black.<br />
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The base of the roof was made by cutting a piece of cardboard to size, then a piece of foam core to the size of the interior opening, & glueing them together to prevent the roof from slipping when it's in place.<br />
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Then I added layers of balsa to be the shingles.<br />
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Balsa is rather smooth naturally, so to make it weathered, I scraped lines into them & made some of the end jagged with my knife. Because the large surface area, I opted to use regular wood stain we had instead of wasting my Citadel/Vallejo washes. I used a lighter 'natural' color, plus a 'english chesnut'. I randomly blotted the wood with both colors while they were still wet so they would blend & mix together.<br />
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Onto the inside: I printed off some wallpaper using a laserjet (wax based) printer (don't use an inkjet, the colors will just bleed when it gets wet) and cut out spots for my windows & doors.<br />
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Then I skimmed the backside across a puddle of watered down PVA glue & smoothed it across the walls.<br />
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After I attached the panel to the wall, smaller strips of balsa were used as trim.<br />
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Time to make the wall of teller windows. I started by cladding some foam core with the same wood paneling as the walls, then cut it into 3 sections so I can attach privacy walls between them.<br />
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The counters & walls are tongue depressor sized craft sticks.<br />
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For the windows themselves, I made enough boards to make 2 frames and I got some window screen replacement to sandwich between the two.<br />
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I was having a hard time gluing the wood together without it shifting on me, so I made a quick square from generic 'Lego' blocks to help me out.<br />
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Once I got them all done, I put all the pieces together to form the wall of windows.<br />
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Plus a door to get back to the office makes the wall cross the whole building.<br />
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The outside to the office wall that's behind where the tellers would be, I wanted to make some pigeon holes. I took some more balsa & cut it into strips; some were assembled into a frame & the others I notched corresponding gaps into the length-ways & height-ways dividers so that could be assembled as a grid.<br />
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All together it looks like this:<br />
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I also made a quick table to rest on that wall<br />
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What western bank would be complete without a scale to weigh out gold nuggets. Digging through my bead box I grabbed some small beads, 2 smaller sequence, 1 larger sequence, a staple, and stacked them in a scale-like manner.<br />
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What gold nugget scale would be complete without gold nuggets... the best/easiest thing I could think of was crumpling some aluminum foil.<br />
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Also, the bank needs a safe. I made mine by cutting a block of styrofoam & then cladding it with plastic. I used a heavy stock paper to cover the joints on the corners. A couple more beads for the latch & combination lock. Toothpick pieces with some lines crimped into them with a scissors act as the hinges.<br />
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The desk in the office is just bits of balsa wood; oil lamp is more beads.<br />
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I made chairs using the rounded tips that were sawed off of popsicle sticks that I had used for the floor.<br />
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I sculpted some money bags out of Sculpey oven bake clay, painted them, & drew on some obligatory Scrooge McDuck-esque dollar signs. These will be left loose so they can be used as loot counters in the game.<br />
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Once cooled, I glued in the miniature nail that came with the hinges I used on the doors to be the dinger.<br />
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Here's some final shots of everything together.<br />
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