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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: Chotii on September 10, 2022, 05:46:24
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This project shown where it stands, right in the middle.
The paint is Rust-Oleum fine textured sandstone. It creates both a real-stone appearance and consistent color overall, which was lacking with my pieced together structure and age of components.
I am working on “retro brite” bleaching the window frames, doors, window boxes and the sunroom filigree, as many of them are yellowed with age. This seems to work fine with “food grade” hydrogen peroxide (12%) and UV light.
It’s slow!!
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Could we have a close up of the walls please?
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I am loving your project :love:
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Looking good so far!
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I like the colour! :)
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I love your choice of textured effects paint and would love to see detailed pictures when you will have the time please :love:
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A closeup of the wall:
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The stairs to the attic need work. (This ‘broken tread’ was cut out with a hot wire-type styrofoam cutter.)
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The chimney running the height of the house. Styrofoam.
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Good work.
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That's beautiful :love:
The walls are amazing! Thank you for sharing.
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Excellent looking work so far. That wall color and texture is really nice.
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I always felt that massive chimney stack without a chimney below it was odd, you have a great solution!
The textured paint on the walls is really great. Did you paint the walls after assembly or before? I was wondering whether the paint would crack if you tried to disassemble walls painted after assembly?
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More updates. Painting the upstairs balcony and the window and door trim is in Krylon “iron oxide” primer with matte sealer.
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The dormers are now Krylon Almond, smooth rather than the fine stone texture.
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My daughter (23) loves taxidermy. So she asked if we could mount a deer’s head on the wall. This buck was originally a reindeer and his antlers came from another brand of toy, since Playmobil doesn’t offer a larger whitetail type antler style.
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I always felt that massive chimney stack without a chimney below it was odd, you have a great solution!
The textured paint on the walls is really great. Did you paint the walls after assembly or before? I was wondering whether the paint would crack if you tried to disassemble walls painted after assembly?
I laid them out flat and sprayed them individually. They are a little tighter to fit together now but not enough to stop assembly. The paint also covers some of the sins of constructing a single-window piece by chopping up a two-window piece and plastic-welding it to a connector.
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I laid them out flat and sprayed them individually. They are a little tighter to fit together now but not enough to stop assembly.
Good to know - I have spray painted some western buildings, and it did lead to a very tight fit. Did you use an undercoat or just straight with the top-coat? I undercoated it because the person in the shop advised it, but I'm not sure if it's essential.
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I love the elegant finish and colour scheme of the mansion's facade :love:
Your work is captivating and I am loving your project !
Cannot wait to see what will come next :wave:
Karim
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I had been wanting a set of stairs with a landing, and this works!! Also decided to go up another story. Cannot really go higher because I can’t see into the attic now unless I stand on a step stool. However there will also be a pigeon loft with realistic painted pigeons, soon.
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That's a fanrastic 1/4 turn staircase- it would be great to know how you made it!
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Those stairs look amazing!
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The stairs were trial and error, and also cut the bejeezus out of my finger trimming off rough edges. :/
I have several surplus sets of stairs and their accompanying upper floor panels with the hole for the stairs. From the larger end of one of these, I cut the landing to be the same width and length as the two pieces of stair, plus a bit.
I cut a set of stairs at the desired point, removed a single stair from the shorter piece so the angles looked right, and attached it to one edge of the landing using cyanoacrylate and/or Plasti-Weld. Legs for the opposite edge of the landing came from the two thin edges of the floor panel. They support the bottom edge of the upper stairs and are glued in place, so the landing and lower stairs are freestanding.
Stair railings are trimmed sections of longer original pieces. They disguise some of the sins of creating without a plan. All the railings on the landing and lower stairs are glued in place.
In a couple of places I had to add little wedges of support plastic because I could not cut the angles I wanted safely with the saw I am using, so those wedges are plastic-welded in place.
As the second floor is set up to be open plan, these stairs will go there. Otherwise they stick out too far into the room.
A fun little project. Would do it again if the house had space for more.
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The wall of taxidermy.
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Remind's me of Basil Fawlty's Moose Head (https://youtu.be/GwyM9J8PTkQ)!
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I may yet mount a moose head! First I have to find one though. I know there is a moose in Wiltopia.
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Your fingers (the ones still possessing a bejeezus) should watch out if you plan to decapitate a PM Moose! :lol:
Thanks for the detailed description of the staircase construction, btw. :wave:
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Updates! The exterior is finally complete!
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Your house is looking gorgeous :love:
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Magnificent work! Love the taxidermy wall!
That faun in the third picture. Should watch out his head doesn't join the other 3 hornéd beasts!
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Mr Tumnus, I presume!
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I finally had a chance to place the pigeons in and on the pigeon loft in the second floor open patio. The dragon and cat are up to shenanigans.
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:lol:
That really made me laugh!
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I tried to move the mansion inside and the whole thing disintegrated all over the ground. Poop. I only moved it because the rains have begun in Seattle and the wallpaper was not faring very well!!
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At least I have a much better idea now how it goes together than I did when I started this (I don’t have any instructions).
I did manage to break one of the finials on the dormers. But had just received 2 of them, serendipitously, in a bulk lot of small pieces today! So can make the repair easily.
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I like the idea of wainscoting, so here are my first attempts. These are coffee stores sticks glued to a background of cardstock and painted with glossy white acrylic. The wallpaper is scrapbooking paper glued to a backing of the same cardstock. I am beginning to use stuff called LeMax Sticky Max to hold small things in place, such as the rifles in the gun rack under the wall of taxidermy: every time the house gets bumped the gun rack falls over: boom, firearms everywhere!
The creation of the wainscoting and the custom-cut wallpapers is exacting and time consuming. I am enjoying that peace and focus very much.
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Modified a grandfather clock to have a functional face. It’s actually running, although it doesn’t keep accurate time.
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Great idea that wainscotting! And the working clock is wonderful!