{"id":12064,"date":"2017-10-04T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T21:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=12064"},"modified":"2017-10-04T14:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T21:13:21","slug":"victorianna-tower-exteriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=12064","title":{"rendered":"Victorianna tower exteriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally reached the point on the Victorianna where I can glue on the front roof pieces. Yay, progress!<\/p>\n

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My plan was to add fishscale shingles to the top portions of the towers. I got these from Alpha Stamps.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know why, but even though it looked great in my head, I hated this once I saw it. The scale of the shingles is fine but they seem too big and chunky somehow — more like a dragon’s back than a pretty Victorian detail. I let it sit like that overnight just in case I changed my mind, but the next day I still hated it. Luckily the chipboard shingles were easy to rip off! <\/p>\n

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On to Plan B (which didn’t exist yet). I hadn’t prepared the plywood with the intention of having it show, so the towers needed to be covered up with something. Adding siding seemed like a pain because of all the seams — I’ve never been very good at cutting straight edges on clapboard siding, and the siding I have on hand is brittle and splits easily. I knew it wouldn’t look good.<\/p>\n

The beadboard I used inside on the bathroom wall<\/a> was easier to work with, but when I held it up against the tower wall the grooves seemed way too small. <\/p>\n

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So I ended up buying some 1\/4″ board and batten siding<\/a> from Miniatures.com. Since the grooves run vertically, the corners will be much easier to deal with than they would have been with clapboard siding — I’ll just butt the pieces up next to each other and fill in the seams with wood filler. <\/p>\n

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Whenever possible I like to swap out the windows on a die-cut dollhouse with Houseworks windows, or at least make my own trim as I did on the tower’s bay windows<\/a>, but that’s easier said than done when the window has a non-standard shape. I wasn’t excited about using the window trim that came with the kits. Compared to the bay windows underneath, the oval trim seems clunky and way out of scale.<\/p>\n

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I wanted something more like the oval trim on the Rosedale.<\/p>\n

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I looked online for alternatives and found these oval pendants<\/a> with an opening that’s slightly smaller than the window openings. I used wire cutters to snip off the loop at the top, then sanded off the remaining nubs with a metal file.<\/p>\n

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From the front, you can’t even tell that the trim is smaller than the opening. <\/p>\n

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I glued the window trim directly onto the siding. I plan to glue the window acetate to the side of the house, and then glue on the siding with the window trim attached.<\/p>\n

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You’ll be able to see this edge through the window from the inside, so I cleaned it up with wood filler.<\/p>\n

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I measured from the top of the siding pieces to make sure the three windows are lined up.<\/p>\n

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Then I painted the siding pieces. The metal needed several coats.<\/p>\n

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The paint caused the siding pieces to warp, which caused the edges of the window trim to come unglued and the wood filler to crack. I slid more glue under the trim edges and clamped on the trim (under wax paper to protect the paint). Once this glue dried, I had to touch up the wood filler on the backs and re-paint.<\/p>\n

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I decided to use the same trim on the inside so it would be the same size on both sides of the window. After painting (3-4 coats to completely cover the metal), I added a coat of matte finish to hopefully keep the paint from scraping off.<\/p>\n

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Here’s how it looks from the inside of the tower.<\/p>\n

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And from the outside.<\/p>\n

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I added wood filler to fill in the gap. <\/p>\n

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And painted it to match the trim.<\/p>\n

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Here’s how it will look once the exterior piece is glued on. The window acetate will be sandwiched underneath.<\/p>\n

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I haven’t glued on the siding pieces yet, but here’s a sneak peek. Much better than those fishscale shingles!<\/p>\n

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I’ve finally reached the point on the Victorianna where I can glue on the front roof pieces. Yay, progress! My plan was to add fishscale shingles to the top portions of the towers. I got these from Alpha Stamps. I don’t know why, but even though it looked great in my head, I hated this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58,19],"class_list":["post-12064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-greenleaf-victorianna","tag-half-scale","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12064"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12143,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions\/12143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}