Paperclaying the Entry
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So last night I started with the paperclay. I rolled it out about 1/8" thick using and old kitchen pastry roller. I found that unless I turn the paper clay often it sticks pretty badly to the counter top so I give it a roll one direction, pick up and turn the clay then roll again and repeat. That seemed to work the best for me.
I rolled it out to about 1/8" thick and using a ruler cut one straight edge on the clay to line up with the bottom of the wall to be covered. The first place I put paperclay was directly on the house front in the area that will be inside the entry. I placed the entry against the house and marked the insides of the walls with a pen. I applied glue (Tacky glue) and smeared it with my finger to try to get a fairly even coating all over the wall then lifted the clay, lined up the bottom edge and gently pressed and smoothed it against the wall then trimmed the edges to match the pen lines on the building:
Once that was done I set to work on the entry itself. Because I used foamcore to build it from I was afraid of warpage so I worked on both sides at the same time. I worked on opposite sections starting from the back. I did one back section front and back - then the other back section front and back. By the end of last night I was getting pretty tired so decided to finishe up the front this morning. By this morning the paperclay had dried and I was very pleased that I could not notice any warping at all :lol: However I did get a little heavy handed in places and while imprinting the block lines I went all the way through the paper clay in some places and when the clay dried those places left some pretty big gaps. So it was back to work filling gaps, re-smoothing and blending the clay all over again.
One other thing I didn't anticipate was that I once the paperclay was applied to the octagonal window shapes they appear round. I should have cut them larger to accomodate the clay and may have some trouble with this later.. or I may just take the dremel to it once it's dried and make them bigger and hope i don't damage the walls while doing it. I'll just have to wait and see how it goes.
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