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Building a Ruined Farm House

here are the vines....

Next came the vines. Now that was fun. Since I have never done one of those, I was very excited to give it a go. Here is the basic technique:

• Spread some white glue on the spot where the vines are to go
• Sprinkle dried parsley flakes over the glue and let that dry for a little bit
• Apply more glue over the previously sprinkled parsley and sprinkle some more flakes (this is to give it some depth) and let that dry completely
• Paint the flakes dark green - this is more like a thick wash then actual paint
• Apply a couple more washes (lighter green) over the newly created vines but stay away from the edges.  You want to keep them darker
• Dry brush entire vine with lighter shades of green and in some places yellow.

here is the roof...

Construction of the roof presented a problem to me as I am not an architect. I did a bit of research concerning that aspect of my project and in the end decided on a steep angle sloped roof covered in clay shingles. The frame for this roof was constructed from three wider and four thinner pieces of balsa wood. The wider pieces are what is giving the roof its pitch and the thinner pieces are laid across the roof to give support to all the shingles. I used the same technique painting the roof frame as I did the fence. Shingles themselves were made out of thin cardboard. I cut it into rectangles, glued them individually to the roof frame and then painted them with acrylic paints. After the paint dried I gave it several dark brown and black washes and then dry brushed with beige.
When the roof was done I glued it into place with 5 minute epoxy.