Glazing & Plastering in Pirate Town

With temperatures sitting below freezing and snow lashing in from the East the weekend plans were abandoned allowing for some good terrain time ! If I am lucky Monday will be a day at home !

My Car after first snowfall

Rear Garden - the shed is under the tall  tree right at the end of the garden.

In the last post I illustrated the basic construct of the town. In this article I have tried to explain the next steps.

Originally I intended to make the windows from matchsticks. This proved very fiddly and did not give the impact I was looking for. An alternative was sort. Having searched hi & lo on the internet for model window frames

I settled on a range used by model railway enthusiasts. Three packs(60 windows) were ordered along with a few shutters and some larger arch windows.

This is where I sourced the windows - the range is called Dornaplas
http://www.ontracks.co.uk/index.php?page=search_results&string=windows&page_now=2

 

Seven days later they arrived and quite frankly I was very disappointed as they seemed to have no depth. Once the buildings have been covered in plaster they would just disappear. Every so often I get a flash of inspiration with regards to my terrain building and I was lucky to get one of those eureka moments. I’d build the windows up on plasticard. An hour later 60 windows were ‘based’.

With a quick calculation I determined how many windows could go on each building. I marked up in pencil a line of height for where these would go and a few minutes later they were all glued in place. The doors were finished off in balsa and the frames from various wooden odds and ends.

The first of these were glued onto the buildings and I was quite pleased with the results.

Onto the plaster, I was advise on the Lead Adventurer forum that watered down polyfilla was the way to go with my plastering - so here goes.

Its a bit of a mess but after some sanding and painting I reckon it will work. So a couple of hours later the town was plastered.

Next up - I decided to paiont the base boards. Settling on a sandy theme the first coat is an acrylic mix of buff titanium and yellow ochre. Once dry it will get drybushed. With temperatures still under 0 degress the kitchen has become my workshop.



Stacked and waiting to dry

Sunday morning - just had to lay the town out for a progress shot

Not too sure how much progress will be made today but the town is coming along....

The town also now has a name - 'Corbertizo' which means (according to google translate - Spanish) - 'Shed'

Part 4 can be found here

http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-chapel-of-santa-maria-in-corbetiza.html
 

Eric