The House for San Bernardino

[P5se Camelback]

I've been working on the walls a bit, making sure I keep the windows for each wall arranged on a piece of blue painter's tape in the same order and orientation as they would be inserted into the wall openings. The openings were filed and fitted for a particular molded plastic window (which had the edges filed flat, eliminating the "draft" and parting line on each side of each window ... or else they wouldn't fit as tight as I needed them to fit!) Each window must go back into the opening it was fitted to or else ...

... Oh, why hem and haw and beat around the bush ... the windows and the window openings are "matched."

Actually, I've spent most of my seat time at the table today experimenting with developing a method of applying a scale "stucco-like" surface to scraps of styrene. Tomorrow, when I'm certain that "the material" has totally cured, I'll shoot some paint on the test pieces and see how close to scale stucco they actually look. If the process seems to work, I'll crop and resize all of the many documentation photos I've taken, put some narrative with them and post a technique piece that might be a good fit for the "New Academy."

I now have one corner of the house welded up. I'll probably post progress photos of wall assembly tomorrow ... I have too many photos to crop, resize and upload to Photobucket to get to it tonight. [Plus, I think I ate too much for dinner and I can feel my hypoglycemia starting to kick in ... it's going to be an early night tonight ... or at least there will be some serious naptime involved. I may be back up again in the middle of the night.]