The bay windows was yet another time
consuming deal. I haven't done an over abundance of scratch
building stuff so it takes me longer to think through how I'm going to
do something. I'm getting better though! I started with a
cardstock floor in the shape I wanted and then cut the brick from an old
casting. I had these three window castings lying around and they
looked perfect. To get the angle on them, I decided to use round
wood stock in-between.
Same shot from above. The end
pieces were rectangular stock. Getting these three materials to
stick was a major headache - so I went with epoxy again.
The roof is the same shape as the floor
only cut from styrene. I did a square wood bit first and then cut
the cornice piece to fit. Grrr.... there has to be a better way to
cut that stuff!
Here is the the top after being glued
together.
You can see my handiwork on the corners
where the moulding meets. I had to do a lot of carving on the
right side to get things to fit.
Altogether now! I added some styrene
and wood strip to trim out the panels over the windows.
Here the brackets are cut to fit in.
They added a nice touch I think.
painted the brick my original red and
the rest Pullman green. The braces are gold and I was testing red
and gold on the top panels.
Gold it is! I ended up using that as an
accent color in a lot of places. Victorian houses are full of
gold! Here I've weathered the bricks up to match the rest of the
building.
Crappy pic, but it shows the roof from
the top. I used black acrylic paint with a little plaster dust for
texture.
Well, as I mentioned in the wall
section, I wanted to have an interior for the bay window area. I
had no time, so I decided a big black square would have to do.
This si the inside of the window.
I HATE cutting acetate to fit window castings. I hate it.
Okay, now that you know that, we can move on. The top windows are
all done up like stained glass. I think I'll do a little clinic on
that as I th9ught of that technique myself. Then I glued in window
shades.
Here's the final product! I dry
brushed a bit of white on. and blackened the gold parts.
The stained glass is shining! Now
we need.....
To make the the
Conservatory!