San Fran starts to take shape.
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Well it is a bit unwieldy having to upload pics to an album first (instead of directly into the blog post) but it is nice to be able to drag and drop photo files into the gallery now. Wish there were some way to miniaturize the photos, as they display full-sized on the screen... This makes the blog post a bit unwieldy to view!
Here I am cutting the trim pieces and gluing certain ones together, with my Gorilla wood glue:
Here I am setting up the main braces into which the wall components will slide:
The future owner wants the house to look like Robin Carey's San Fran at http://robincarey.blogspot.com/2008/11/san-franciscan.html, so I went shopping for colors and wallpapers; the leftover yellow from my recent Willowcrest build will do fine for the main house color.
Here's one of the time-consuming parts, prepping the window pieces. The green that I had gotten is a bit too green, so I am using it as the base coat with a more spring-green layer over it.
Finally all the window pieces are prepped, so I am building up the bays now:
The next step is to glue in the 2nd floor, but I think I had better start priming on the first floor or I won't be able to reach in there.
You can see the different between the spring-green on the window sashes and the green-green on the sills (which haven't gotten their second paint coat yet) in this last pic.
The window sashes do move up and down, but I am going to glue the upper frames up in place when I get a little further along.
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