One of my many many MDF projects is to create a range of Tudor style buildings. I designed a basic cottage ages ago and want to take it much further and design a small town. A town of about 10 different building designs.
The first test building is this basic two floor house with removable levels. The floor area is quite small but I want to have a variety of building sizes to fit the rather excellent Deep Cut Cobble Matt.
The first prototype building turned out pretty good with only a few small fixes required to the beams and the roof.
I can’t keep all of the prototypes that I end up building, if they can’t be painted and used then they have to get thrown away. But for this one, rather than chuck it in the bin, I decided to paint it as is to test out some colour options. Normally I would paint the bits before gluing it together as it is generally much easier, but as this was a test build, it was not really worth pre-painting.
I found some large pots of masonry paint in my garage and wondered what they would look like. Painting the bits between the beams is much more difficult when the building is finished so I have no idea how this is going to turn out. It may yet end up in the bin.
A loft full of lead 