Hear are the four triangles that will make-up the pyramid roof. The roof panels measure 13.5 foot wide by six foot tall. I am not all that happy with how the paint job ended up. I will try a couple little tricks in order to make the roof look a little better.
I have been slow in completing this structure. As you can see I have started creating doors and windows. I started the window by glueing a square piece of window materials to the inside of the structure. Then I added mullions to the glazing material to create the four pane window. The panel door was scratch built using various widths of card stock glued to a cardstock backing.
Once the baords have been added I primed each section with tan hobby paint.
Once the paint was dry I added the trim around the windows and doors.
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I used 3 by 5 file cards for the boards and cut them from 3 to 14 inches wide. I used a file card to add wood grain and a hobby knife to add a few knots. I need to go back clean up some of the window opening.
I have started to cut out the door and windows openings for these sections. Since I didn't cut the roof sections to the correct width I will need to re-layout the triangle sections again.
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I am using bristol board for the sub-walls. The building will measure a scale 12 foot square. Randum width boards will added to the subwalls. The walls will be nine foot tall.
There will be two doors and six windows: front and back sides get a door and a window; the sides will host two windows per side. Four triangles will be cut from the bottom sheet. These triangles will measure thirteen foot across the bottom and will be six foot tall.
Wall sections and material for roof sections.
I am often challenged when I see a pile of left-overs from previous modeling sessions. I use the following materials to build this shed: 1mm grey cardstock measuring approximately 4.5 X 4.25 by 7' scale feet, matt-board, small bits of corrugated material, 8 pieces of small sticks for strengthening the interor, and several passes from a dry brush.
It is not one of my better attempts, but it will work stuck behind some structure away from the front of the layout.
I opened a long forgotten kit today and out slipped this 4 by 3.75" set of signs. These seem to be geared to "around" the railway tracks for the most part. I will have to remember to add signs to my next industrail or railway project.
My other signs posts
Let us hope this will be the last of its kind.
But then again you never really know, do you?
I found this structure on Pinterest and I want to attempt to build it. I have been wanting to start a long term project from mostly card stock. This should keep me entertained for a while.
I just found these signs in an unopen plastic kit. It looks like they are in French, German and English. If I ever get around to addind additional signs to my layout I might remember to make use of some of these.
These cards measure 2.75 by 3.5 inches. This is card #5 "Sling Rave Curvette".
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.
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.
I dumped my scale panels that I had formerly had in a perscription bottle to a bank envelope. This will take up less space. I have been using these envelopes for my bits of usually paper leftovers. There are also great when collecting bits for the next project. I am currently building another structure for the "village" and these panels are being added to a large storm drain pipe (a flimsy cardboard tissue core) to add to its overall structure and to add detail.
This is one of my favorite tools when working on "small" projects. Although it doesn't have a cutting edge, it does help in getting a straight cut. I just make sure that one edge of the triangle is perpendicular to the bottom edge while another to the edge being cut.
I am cutting four foot squares out cardstock strips for another structuure for the village. Recently I made use this triangle when bending some cardstock pieces. It worked very well on those small angles of carstock needing a bend.
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Link added 8.8.25 @ 12:07.
This is a grand project and I salute the author for his persistence and patience. As you can imagine a project like this takes a committment. If you visit his site you will notice that this structure isn't his first.
This author used some of the same techniques in his structure, but in a much smaller scale. Both of these models are exquisite and very inspiring.
Editing completed on 8.5.25 @ 11:59. Grammar and spelling corrections.
Can anything come out of this? I save my bits from my projects. I store them inside an envelope or in banking envelopes. Rarley do I go back to see what is in these envelopes. And I rarely bother to take inventory of these bits before starting a new projects. Although I might look for a bit of embossed paper or stone sheet or a scrap of conregated material from time-to-time.
This collection is mainly made up of pieces of cardstock, a couple pieces of matboard and everything in between. Who knows what may come of this mess?
Updated on 6.14.25 @ 11.34 A.M. Corrected grammar.
The swamp shack sits atop of its new deck. The deck I had originaly created was much too small for the hut. The shack needs some pilings and a couple of columns under the overhang of the porch. It has taken me a long time to complete this structure.
