Texturing the walls and first impressions

 Hello everyone and thank you for your kind comments.

Now the box is complete, I need to prepare the walls. For the "stone" effect, I use a tool to "etch" the lines on the surface

First, I measured real stones. They are usually 33cm. high and the length varies between 60 and 20 cm. 

So the stones will be 2.75 cm. high. I first draw lines with a pencil, then I start "etching" the horizontal lines, then the vertical ones, making sure their sizes vary.

I use the same technique for my roofs. So it can take hours...for one roof only. And you have to keep focused.....

Then, I will do the same on the fireplace, then apply primer, as plastwood needs to be primed before painting with acrylics.

I have two options for the window. I don't know yet which one I will choose, the plain window or the more ellaborate.....

Yesterday, I finished drawing the lines and etching the stones on the 3 walls. 

I also cut and glued the wood beams on the ceiling. I chose wood instead of balsa. Balsa is light but fragile. Wood is heavy but stronger. I checked that the beams originally were painted. So I will paint the ceiling and the beams and add corbels on each side to hold the beams.

I also filled the gap in the window with the seats and cut the door on the opposite wall. 

I measured the real door in France. It's so small that today, most of us would have to bend forward to go through the door, 1,77 cm high...

No wonder one of our kings, Charles VIII, died after hitting the lintel of a door in his castle in Amboise... He fractured his skull and died at the age of 28.

"April 7, 1498, at Amboise castle. Married for six and a half years to Anne of Brittany, the young King Charles VIII went to look for her in his apartments. He wants the queen to attend a game of tennis with him in the moats of the castle. The sovereigns must go through the Hacquelebac gallery, the door of which, very low, opens into the enclosure.Although small in size, Charles VIII hit the lintel of this door with his forehead. It seems that the shock is inconsequential and the king attends the game while chatting. 

Suddenly he fell backwards and lost consciousness. We lay him down on a straw mattress in a foul-smelling cubicle, a sentinel where everyone meets their natural needs 

Nine hours of agony for the 28-year-old king.

No one dares to transport the monarch. And we don't call a surgeon to his bedside either. Charles VIII will never regain consciousness. At eleven o'clock in the evening, the young king - he was only twenty-eight years old - breathed his last, undoubtedly the victim of a purely accidental cerebral hemorrhage. His agony lasted nine hours , recalls the historian, while specifying that he remains in history as the only king of France born and died in a castle in the Loire. Amboise in this case.

Miniatures lead to everything......

This afternoon, I painted the 3 walls, limestone colour,

 and the ceiling, dark grey between the beams and "bleu canard" (duck blue?) for the beams. Looking at photos, I saw that beams were painted in wealthy houses so..... They were decorated on the 3 visible sides with different decorations.I'll paint the side facing the floor when I have time.....

I painted the brick wall at the back of the fireplace and then covered it with black paint.....Have you ever seen a working fireplace with a red wall behind?

And I assembled everything.....

Tomorrow, I'll cut the corbels to add under each beam and I'll start weathering the walls. This is the most risky (or riskiest?)  part of the construction. Not enough, you won't see it. Too much and you can start painting the whole wall again... It has already happened to me....

Then I will have to paint the glass behind the window and glue it.

Some objects I will add: a bible printed by Daniel Zalvez Martinez who makes amazing books and curiositées, like human organs, LOL.....

I 3D printed the statue of Virgin Mary and aged it to make it look like wood.

The jars were made by Elisabeth Causeret, a French artist who makes wonderful clay pots.

When you click on the name of artists, it goes to their homepage. 

That's all for tonight.

Have a good evening everyone. leave your comments of course if you feel like it, it shows me people have read what I post.

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