Sunday, March 20, 2011

A Before and After


 This wooden birdhouse came from Matlock Miniatures. When it came, it was a little chunkier looking than I was expecting, so it sat in a drawer for a year. I pulled it out the other night, and hacked off the clunky perches. I cut up a wooden fan for gingerbread, and painted the whole thing white. The roof had some unfortunate glue spots that would have resisted stain, so I ended up using acrylic paint for that. While the roof was still wet, I added touches of moss and mold colors, and encouraged them to bleed across the wood. It doesn't show up well in photographs, but it's a nice base for any further aging I do.

I still need to add the birds, more weathering, and a few other details to make the dovecote  a little more realistic. I also need to fix the center bottom piece of filigree, which is looking very crooked!

6 comments:

  1. Soooo much better with the thinner perches.

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  2. You did a very good job, it looks far better like this.
    Geneviève

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  3. Me gustan mucho tus trabajos,ya tienes una seguidora más,te invito a visitarme.Besos.

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  4. What a lovely idea. I have one of those but it never occurred to me to give it a makeover.

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  5. You have done a wonderful job on this!

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