Thursday, October 25, 2012

Project Update: Wicked Wanda's by Bar Mills

It is Halloween time. Time to bring up to life some dead projects. I hope I will be able to go all the way this year and finish the project. The diorama is taking up very valuable space on my modeling room floor and collecting dust. Also although I am very careful about it it is all possible that our cat may get into the room. That most likely would result in some damage to everything that is on the floor. It is time to finish the diorama and exchange it for some cash.
I had just installed the fence before I put diorama on back burner. I wanted an outhouse and a dog house in the back plane which I planned to scratchbuild. After many months of procrastination I bought doghouse kit from Vectorcut and scratchbuilt the outhouse. I don't have any problems designing, engineering and scratchbuilding things. The bigest problem for me is determining dimensions. It seems all it takes is googling it up. Many times it works fine. However, in case of dog house I got this table of dimensions based on dog breed. Having no knowledge of different breeds meant more research and trying different variations to find out what looks best so I decided not to follow this path and purchased the kit. I think it looks pretty nice. After installing outhouse, doghouse and shed I planted tufts, weeds and such in the back while I had good access. Then I installed Wanda's. Now I need to add grass and tufts around the building and add details and little people. Sounds like not so much...






4 comments:

  1. Do you recall your color scheme (i.e. paint) for this build?

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  2. Do you recall your color scheme (i.e. paint) for this build?

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  3. I think I will be able to figure out when I get home.

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  4. One paint color I remember. It is DecoArt Americana Camel. I painted trim with it. It looks like the shed is painted with Plaid FolkArt Italian Sage. I have several similar paints but I think I used Apple Barrel Wedgewood Green for the walls.

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