On the suggestion of my friend Pam Junk, I decided to add fishscale shingles to make the house a little more interesting. (They’ll also cover up some defects in the less-than-perfect paint job…) Rather than use the Houseworks wooden shingles, which come as individual pieces, I am cutting strips from posterboard. These will be glued onto the bottoms of the bay windows and the top of the pointy walls.
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After the paint dries, I’ll glue these strips on over the siding.
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I started with shingles on the bay windows, since those would be easier than the ones on the tops of the walls (they’ll go under the eaves of the roof). I will have to cut out a lot more paper strips before I’ll be ready to do those!
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Update May 2009: Finally got the rest of my fishscale shingles up! (Plus window trim!)
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A how-to article with instructions and templates for making these fishscale shingles appears in the February 2010 issue of Miniature Collector.
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