Jam & Jerusalem

The Village Hall

Here's the little village hall / chapel almost complete with just a bit of tickling up to do. As previously mentioned, the walls are scribed foamboard, the roof is Daler board with the usual black card slates. (This time stuck down in neat rows, as the church roof appeal must have been successful)

The bell tower roof is real lead over a base of card and micro rod. The lead is the stuff found around the tops of wine bottles, it's very malleable, so can be coaxed into quite complex compound shapes.
I can't decide whether to paint it either grey - to represent lead, green, to represent verdigris on copper or just leave it as it is to gradually oxidise in it's own time.

The lead flashing is real aluminium tape as used for sealing heating and airconditioning ducting. Another very useful material and not expensive.

The stained glass windows are photographic images laser printed onto overhead projector film.

The porch light is a 6mm white LED with a plasticard shade and microstrip 'cage'. I stained the clear plastic of the led lamp with a little yellowish acrylic wash just to tone down the harshness of the white light, and I'm using quite a high value series resistor to keep the brightness down to realistic levels - I do hate to see brilliant white lights on period layouts, preferring a more 'gaslight' effect.

Despite all my efforts, the lamp refuses to hang straight, and I need to figure out a better way to make louvres as I'm not over happy with those in the bell tower.  Oh well.