Slade's Office

completed building

I needed a small stone building for the new scene in Cave Junction and B.T.S.'s Slade's Office fit the bill, well almost. The door was on the wrong wall so rather than cutting the castings I made a mold of the and cast them in hydrocal. I then cut these castings to rearrange it so the front door was on the low wall (the original metal castings will be used to build an Ice House for my harbour scene later on.).  As it turned out my castings were not perfect but this building is in the background so they will be OK. After cutting off the peeked ends and gluing them to the other walls, the building was assembled and braced. This would not have worked if the building walls were not about the same length. I first painted individual stones various earth tones, then it was covered with a thinned brown wash which pulled all the colours together. The walls were then washed with a black wash to highlight the joints between the stones. Window frames were painted white and a black tarpaper roof was added. A little stable with a white horse completes the scene.



metal walls, mold, cast wall, other metal parts and box