Now that the toy store is finished (oh! BTW I finally came up with a name for it.... "The Toy Chest of Whimsy Street Toy Store"), I'm trying to really get going on the bookstore, and hopefully get it finished quickly (although I've got a busy November so fingers crossed). I had actually had a building started a while ago, but as I was working on the toy store and had what was originally going to be the building was sitting next to it at one point, I just started to think they looked to similarly shaped. So.... I started over and ended up changing my design slightly and using two paper mache book shaped boxes, that I modified a bit to fit together to make one structure...... unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of them before I started messing with them, but they are the same as these books that I used for my Halloween decorations in my front hall (just ignore the mess on the stairs..... we are not good at keeping our stairs tidy lol), but smaller versions of them.
After figuring out where the door and windows needed to be and cutting them out I added some strips of foam to the spines to give them a little more book detail.
To give the covers more texture I mod podged on some tissue paper, letting it wrinkle some and not smoothing it out (although honestly after painting it I think it probably should have been a little less wrinkly than it is, but it'll be fine, if I really decide I want it a little less wrinkly, I can always sand it down/scrape it down a bit and repaint it).
As of tonight I've only got the two base coats of paint on one of the "books", tomorrow I might sponge a mix of the green and a tiny bit of black mixed/swirled to give it a little more leathery texture to it, but I'm not completely sure yet, I want to see it after being completely dry and in better lighting before I decide whether to actually do that step or not.
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| Why yes, yes I was watching Star Trek: The Next Generation while working on this one tonight lol. Also, sorry for the bad picture, but the lighting in this room at night just isn't good for photography. |
I'll also most likely paint the other "book" tomorrow too once the paint brush I want to use dries from washing the green paint out of it.
Once I'm happy with the main color I'll be painting details with gold paint and the tops of the "pages" a white or off-white color. Then I'll get the windows made and installed and the door painted and installed. Then it's on to the inside. I actually already put together the bar kit that I'm going to use as the front desk.
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| This is actually the side of it, I apparently haven't taken a picture of it from the front yet, but honestly it's been a long week and i just don't feel like taking another picture of it right now.... it's a curved bar/counter..... and there will be many many more pictures posted of it shortly I'm sure |
And I've already taken the 3-d printed stairs I ordered out and semi test fitted them so that I knew where the second floor would be. They are going to look so good once I get them painted and they are installed in the shop!
So, I think that's about it for now, hopefully I will have a finished structure to show soon, and then moving on to the inside!
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