Church Doors

I am still painting the edges of the church.  You can see the blue square at the bottom where the door will go.  It's a bit of masking tape to cover the wood so that the glue will hold the door on.

Here you can see where the front door will go.  I have started putting on the first coat of paint.

A test fit for the door.  Fits just fine, I think.  HaT Industrie 1/72nd scale soldier standing guard in front.

The door does not contrast enough from the brown paint.  I will have to fix that problem.

Three doors waiting to be installed on the church.

Painted Church

Here is the church with the first of the roof painting done.

I also had to cut off the bird perches.

The Rustoleum paint worked very well on the metal roof.

Once I did the roof, I started on the brown walls.

I painted the joints, holes and other special areas first to fill in the gaps here and there.

Church Primer

 

 

The birdhouse church I got has metal roof pieces.  I plan to paint them green.

 

I went to OSH and got this paint sample on sale for about three dollars.

 

First thing I had to do was primer the old red and rusty church.

I took a couple coats to cover that red, and the rusty roof.

It took a while but I got it primered up.

St Basil

I brought the church into the house and did another test fitting of the various domes.

I wanted to see which ones work best with the various heights of the roof pieces.  I wanted some thing similar to St Basil in Red Square, in Moscow, Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Basil's_Cathedral

Every church needs doors and this one needed three large and strong doors.

I made the doors out of Evergreen sheet plastic.

Cut a strip off the V-Groove and you can make lateral panels.

I just glued them straight across both doors, then I cut them apart afterwards.