Little Lessons Building Structures

I’ve being trying to finish up the town on the NES however progress has been slow. I finally got an evening to work on another structure and things didn’t go as smoothly as planned. Firstly, shingling around the dormers proved to be quite challenging as it was difficult to make everything fit seamlessly. When I finally got the shingles to fit and I was happy with the result I managed to accidentally touch to roof with a paint covered finger – no amount of work would hide the mistake so I had to shingle the roof twice. Second, this building wasn’t as crisply made as the others so the weathering highlighted many mistakes and required some judicious ivy applications. The weathering also revealed that I had managed to construct some of the walls upside down – the siding was the wrong direction. This wasn’t highlighted until the weathering was applied as the ink/alcohol mix highlighted the error. Finally, when I started to glaze the windows I realized that I couldn’t access the dormers as they were permanently affixed to the roof!

While these are minor errors, they did highlight some important points about assembling structures – do get too far ahead of yourself! When I first started building this little house, I should have constructed the dormers separately, weathered them, installed the glazing and then applied the roofing. I had already learned a valuable lesson earlier in ensuring you paint doors and windows BEFORE applying them, otherwise you either need to brush paint them, or simply paint them the same colour as the rest of the structure.

As such, the cottage has far more ivy then I would have preferred. Oh well. Windows and door have been ordered so I should be able to build the last house and move onto the warehouse.