A little article on how I made the
saxon houses
Tools needed...some green insulating foam, Matchsticks, some thin woodsheeting (an old drawer bottom) sharp blade, scissors, woodglue, Bailingstring, pins and paint.
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| Cut the foam into a triangle, cut the doorway out |
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| Cut matchsticks to size and glue into the doorway as the door frame. Make sure they stick out a couple of millimeters above the foam. |
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| The "planks" are made from the bottom of an old drawer, the type that is made up of layers of thin wood. Leave it oustside for a week or so in the rain...then lay it in sunlight...it starts peeling apart, so no unecessary work manually parting each layer. ;-D |
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| Paint the front of the foam triangles dark brown, and glue the "planks" on |
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| When dried, simply trim the "planking" with a good pair of scissors. |
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| Glue the sides on and paint them brown, glue the whole structure to the base. It´s best to paint the inside area of base which the hut covers with dark brown...it´s easier now thantrying to paint through the doorway later |
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| Using thing pieces odf wood glue the above structure on. |
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| When all is dry, cut off finger width sections of bailing string, dab one end in some wood glue and attach using a toothpick or whatever to spread the "sraw" evenly, occasionaly pressing the "straw" into the glue. |
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| Keep going, layer for layer until the above effect is achieved. When it´s all dry, snip the straggly bits of straw off....bit of base decoration...finished!! |
