The building of Coronation Street

As some of you are aware I have made a couple of bits of scenery for young Phil.
I thought i'd share with you the building process of the 2 sets of terraced houses.
Its a bit picture heavy but it will hopefully give you an idea of the process I used.

So we start with 10mm high density foam.




Coat it in PVA glue and sand.




Stick all the walls together.













Put the roof on.




Tile the roof. This took a little while to do and I nearly lost the will to live half way through.
















Tiling complete. (on the first terrace anyway)



















First lick of paint.




I ended up changing the colour of the bricks in the end to something a little more brown (those ones were a bit to "pink" for my liking).




I didn't take many pictures of the back yards but here they are virtually finished.










I wasn't sure how to do the windows at first so they were grey. I didn't like this but also didn't fancy painting all those windows.....




..... so I settled on this. I got a photo of the front of a house with sash windows. Took just the window from the picture and scaled it down to the right size. Then printed them out and stuck them in the holes. Didn't look too bad at all in my opinion.




I don't know why but I didn't take any photo's of the terraces when I had finished them
So here are a couple of pics taken by others of the houses in use.







Next week Phillipes Cafe..............

CB

You are getting far to flash

Nice work, where do you get the foam from?

Phil

I think i got the foam from http://www.craftfoam.co.uk/ , quite a few years ago.

I got a big box of it. If you want a sheet (or 2) give me a shout and i'll bring a couple down for you. I've got quite a bit left from my original order.

CB

The buildings are great and much appreciated

Phil

Shame about the figures

Chris, thanks, If you have some spare that would be great

Does that mean you'll making a guest appearance

If Olympic shifts allow, YES!!!

Its not work , he is in the 100 m ( unlike liam )

I'd like some spare foam if that's OK.

I've just signed up for the wheelchair basketball team at the mustard olympics.

If after that load of requests you have any foam left and maybe some cardboard ,dowling , balsa , flock , gravel and paint and can arrangement so the combined effect resembles an american town in the 1860's i might be interested ( hee hee ! )

I am sure that chris will do that for you steve Phil has been mugging him off for months now

LOL

I'll be along this week if you still have some spare foamboard Chris.

Huge, I still have it in the boot of my car.

CB