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Making A Simple Door

Making a Simple Door

When I was building a simple door to use in one of my dioramas, I thought that a small article on how to build a door might just be of some use to others too. Therefore I sat down behind my good old computer and decided to put some things on the harddisk. I hope you can use this simple method.

Step 1 : The Base

When you decide to make a door, the best thing to do is to start with a simple piece of wood that you use as the base for further modeling. On the picture you see a piece of wood that I cutted to the exact size to fit in the wall. I used "Abachi wood" for this part. Abachi is the type of wood that is used in the modeling world to make decks in ships. It's strong, easy to saw and cut, and has a very nice grain that can easily be weathered.

A lot of people would have chosen Balsa wood, but I think it's a bit too soft for the purpose of the base for a door. Balsa comes in very handy in the next steps....I'll explain why in a few minutes.
(The ruler you see in the picture is scaled in Centimeters)