Shingles are on
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It's been 4 days since I made a blog entry - unfortunately weekends are fraught with distractions however things are progressing. There's a bit of wait time with paperclay waiting for it to dry, filling cracks, waiting for it to dry again, and then painting (or repainting) and I have the bad tendancy to put things together and then remember that I forgot something and have to take it appart again - case in point the small upper octagonal windows.. I forgot to put in panes of glass.. which of course means I need to make more stained glass and I Still haven't found my gallery glass so until I do all the windows will be clear :lol:
So this is what's gone on in the last 4 days:
Paperclay shingles: I thought about using wood shingles. I have a bag of the rough looking stuff and of course the Orchid comes with some really nice smooth looking shingles but I got thinking about it and decided I wanted slate... so I used paperclay, knocked on wood and crossed my fingers and hoped I was doig it right and just jumped in. First I rolled my clay out and then cut it into strips the width of a ruler then I glued them in place and imprinted them with the end of a plastic ruller I have to make divisions in the clay.
I got tired and went to bed and the next morning of course I had to paint what I had done (even though it wasn't finished) to see if I liked the look.. it's ok but it shows up the patches pretty badly since the bottoms shingles are painted and the top ones aren't and the patches really arent lol Once it's all dry again I'll repaint.
As you can see the windows are finally attched to the front of the Orchid and waiting for the glue to dry - once that's done I'll go around the edges and fill any gaps and repaint
On the inside I got the inner beams finally glued in place. I still need the back beams but want to wait until I get all the windows in place. I do have a confession to make here... I used hot glue on the arches that go around the dormer edges - I tried gluing them up with tackey and it did work but it took a long time to dry and then (being the dim wit I am) I realized Ack! I forgot to texture and stain the beams - out they came and when they went back in I just used hot glue to hold them. Tackey was used to glue the tall beams in place and the way they're in there I don't believe any of them is likely to have any problems staying in place. Over the arches at the front of the chappel I used one of the scrap pieces from the kit - an octagonal piece from inside the small octagonal window frame to make the shelf that St Francis is sitting on.
For the moment I'm back to working on windows - this time for the front door and once I'm done with them the small octagonal windows.
A word of warning about this type of stained glass - it's tedious- but I do like the way they are looking 
but because of the time it takes I'm considering leaving the glass out of the entry way.. besides glass back then was terribly expensive :angry: I've lightly glued the frames in place and as you can see I'll need to do a lot of patching if I want to leave the glass out of the windows... but before I do that I'll leave it over night and sleep on it and take another look in the morning when I'm not so tired and see if I still like how it looks without the windows panes in the entry way
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