In this addition I would like to show you how easy it is to work with MDF, all you need is a stanley knife (cardboard cutter) and an imagination. With a pencil and a sheet of paper draw what you would like to make, roughly you don't need to make a Picasso.
Your stencil
Carving
1. With the knife start to carve around the lines and make parts stick out
as they would on a building
2. Add details as seen in this picture of the two arched doorways
Do this to all the walls adding any necessary details before you star glueing things
just to see it ready.
Assembly
Adding details that will be hard to get to once everything is together
3. Placing the figurines in may remind you of something you may have
missed
The front panel here is only placed there just for a view as painting the
inside is easier without it
Lets now start on the ground side of things
4. Once again you can roughly mark the ground or you could just start hacking at the ground to make it look like floor pavings
remember, no straight lines it's not necessary
5. Take the sharp edges of the tiles as to make them look like stones
Painting
6. Once finished start to think about the painting this will be done in several stages
two sometimes maybe even three or four.
Think of paint that are going to make it look like actual ground that has been walked
on for a long time. The first color is always going to be the grout color of the ground
what is going to make it look the part is the dry brushing. now as I told you earlier
take your time with every thing but I went ahead and glued the building to the floor
before I too a photo of the dry brushing so tomorrow the next pic will be of the ground
dry brushed and stuck to the building.
Dry brushing is exactly that, you dip the tip of the brush in a lighter colored paint of
your choice wipe most of the paint off onto a piece of news paper and lightly run
the brush in all directions. You will get the picture once you start doing this and will
end up using your own method.
