Chim chimenee chim chimenee
The previous part of this project is here
The Tudor house is almost complete, just a bit of detailing and some tidying up to do.
It's had quite a bit of handling owing to the empirical nature of my building so some of the blackwork needs retouching, but I'm fairly happy with the result.
I'm not too sure about the lower brickwork, I did base it on a photograph, but maybe the bricks are too large ( Tudor bricks generally were a lot smaller than modern ones) I can fairly easily cut those parts out and remake them - we'll see.
I still have the lighting to add, not too bright, a couple of grain of wheat bulbs in series should do it.
I had a plan to make the carved gable by laminating something like a paper doily or maybe some fancy lace onto card, but I didn't have either so I went for card with holes made with a leather punch and small disks courtesy of the same device - I'm quite happy with that.
The chimney stacks are made from some 00 embossed brick plasticard stuck to dalerboard with banner tape, and the flashing is masking tape. The chimney pots are short sections of Biro tube with strips of paper label wrapped around. They are lightly glued to the stacks as they will inevitably get knocked off, and I'd rather lose just a chimney pot than a whole stack and a load of roof tiles!
Next job is to pop down to the club and measure up a baseboard for it. The village is starting to come together nicely.
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