It's taken me a while but at last I've made a start.
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| Masonite facade cut, primed and painted off-white. |
There was a long pause in proceedings at this point while I plucked up the courage to draw the graphics on by hand.
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| Windows bought and first attempt at painting the lithographs. |
First I drew the graphics on in pencil and then set to with a fine paint brush. I started with the shutters which proved to be the hardest part - thankfully they only feature on the top windows - there may not be any on the reverse side of the house!!
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| Nearly done - the front facade anyway! |
Only three colours used in the graphics for the outside walls; red, green and brown, simplifying things greatly. At first I thought I would need to use some sort of lining pen but in the end I went for it by hand and the more I did, the more I began to believed that that was how the original illustrator did it as the effect was very similar. I still have the drain pipe on the left to do but as Droopy is taller and thinner than a Keystone I am missing out the one on the right.
There are some other very slight deviations from the original due to the positioning of the windows and door which are dictated by Droopy - I don't want to make any structural changes to her.
I have used wooden windows from Hobbies but had to adapt a couple for the downstairs.
I'm working on the doorway now... one [door]step at a time!
