Home and Shed Completed

This the project I started back at the end of August and made a post at the beginning of September. This is the new home for Terence and Percy. Percy hinted about a shed for his projects so a small one was built for him.

They really wanted a home of their own so one was thrown up using the materials we had in hand. It is not too pretty, but it is dry and will be warm once they start using the wood stove. Although there is little bit of wood in its construction it is mostly built from cardstock.

I really wanted to make use of those odds and ends I have laying around and in my "junk" boxes. As you will notice I used a piece of scrapbooking paper for the wall. Lastly, I used a leftover piece of embossed brick paper for the rear wall.

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Terence and Percy's Shed

The shed is made up of two layers of material. A cardstock sub-wall and another piece of that scrapbooking paper. The panel door is made up of cardstock sub and the actual panels were fashioned from a thinner piece of cardstock which I painstakenly scored and cut out from the panel layer cardstock.

The sub-roof is made from cardstock and I used a piece of paper napkin from my materials collection to represent asphalt shingles.

Adam Savage Makes an Old Book From Scratch

Adam Savage is at it again. In this episoid Adam gets into bookbinding and creates an old book.

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More Book Binding Resources

Miscellaneous Materials for Scale Modeling

The Spruce Crafts site has a page that describes different materials that can be used for modeling scales models. I have either heard or used most of the materials described on the page, however there is one product I have never heard of and another, although I have heard of it I never really gave it too much thought.

After reading the article two types of materials stuck out to me: Taskboard and Creative Paperclay, both sound like they might be fun to experiment with. I could use either for fashioning structures or terrain.

1. Taskboard:taskboardis a lightweight board made from non-aligned wood fibers that can be fashioned into 3d shapes just by adding water. The only draw back to taskboard is its cost. It will cost me $20 for 2- 1/32 x 10 x 20" sheets.
2. Creative Paperclay: a 8oz brick will cost me around $10. Paperclay has the conistancy of fine clay. The benefits of using Paperclay is that it can re-wetted faster than clay and there is less cracking or warping with Paperclay.
1. I don't know about its yield so I cannot do a proper cost analysis between the two products, however I am guessing I might get better yield from taskboard.