May 2015: I started the Arthur as part of a Greenleaf community build in 2005, and at the time we blogged our progress on the Greenleaf forum. After a few site upgrades the old community blog has become hard to link to and I’m redoing my website anyway, so I decided to move those posts over here and backdate them. Sorry for any weirdness that results!
Just did a tiny bit of work today. First I stained the bottom of the porch (realizing a teeny tiny lip would show if the house were displayed on a glass table and someone got down on the floor and looked up at the bottom of it… okay, I’m anal!) and the porch foundation pieces.
A few hours later, after the stain had (mostly) dried, I glued the porch foundation pieces together. I think I found a mistake in the instructions. They say that the side pieces and front piece of the porch foundation should have tabs and slots that interlock, but those pieces don’t have tabs or slots. They do in the pictures on the box, but not in the kit I have. Maybe a change was made to the dies when Greenleaf retooled this kit, but the instructions were never updated. Anyway, I glued in wooden blocks for support again, because as we have learned gluing little pieces of plywood at perfect right angles is NOT my forte!
Unfortunately, I’m running out of little wooden blocks!
That’s all for the time being. I will glue the porch foundation on to the bottom of the porch before I go to work tomorrow.
Emily is a freelance writer, miniaturist, and adventure game enthusiast.
It’s so long since I built my Arthur that I don’t remember how I did it but your hint about the wooden blocks is a good one to file away for future reference for sure. My son has a Greenleaf Tennyson to build and because of his disabilities that means that hubby and I will be doing most of it while making Nathan think that he is actually building it. Plus, I have a Garfield to construct when I can find a space big enough to do so – so all the tips and hints I can get are gratefully received.