Salem Church New Photos--Completed!

[floating white bear]

Our group briefly discussed a Salem Church scenario, and we check our various collections for a suitable church. Since nobody had one, I decided to cobble one up...quickly...
Luckily there is a great resource for actual plans of the church via the Library of Congress:

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va0935/

I started off with approximate dimenstions and built a 'semi-scale' model.  I am just working on some shutters. If I had wanted a more detailed model, and wanted to spend a bit more, I would have used brick-textured plastic.  This model is in what I know as show-card, which is matte board or art board--smooth surface cardboard about 1/16 of an inch thick. details are balsa.

Regards, Rob.

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[Wilkins]

I saw Goody Proctor with the Devil!!

Looks really good so far, looking forward to seeing it finished. Also checked out your Flickr pics and you have some amazing models on there. Very detailed and well crafted. I am very impressed

[floating white bear]

Since I was not using any brick textured material, I placed some thin card "brick" randomly about the surface to be highlighed when painted.  The rest of the brick areas got two coats of stone texture paint. I believe this came from the Michael's chain of craft stores in North America. There is a variety of particles in the paint which give a pleasingly even textured surface. Colour choice is limited, and the light colour I am using is not very opaque. You could put a base colour down if you are not intending to paint the surface after the texturing. There are a couple of other shades of this available.
There used to be an alternate brand of this type of paint that had some very nice brick and stone colours.  This other type had a variety of particulate and was very nice as a final coat. It sadly is no longer available. (Too bad as I would like to add some bits to my fortress and would like to match the colour!)
The next photo shows the window frames painted and the shutters assembled. The shutters and the upper vent on the door-wall were made by gluing strips of thin balsa in a wide staircase formation.  This was then cut into strips and framed up with more balsa strips. Tedious, but fairly effective. (You can choose to work neater and more precisely than I did!)

Regards, Rob

[Mason]

Nice work, and a nice compromise with the random bricks.
Clever.
 

[floating white bear]

Added some colour.  Details on the blog.

Thanks, Rob.

P.S. That would be Salem Church, Virginia.  Part of the Chancellorsville campaign.  No witches here...

[Mason]

Taken to a very nice finish.
Well done, that Bear!
 

[Wilkins]

Lovely! Hope you're pleased with it