it to the wood, you will get uneven coverage, with some spots left bare. Treat each strip this way, applying more to some strips and less to others.
Adding the Siding Cut your siding into pieces slightly larger than needed. A Northwest Short Line Chopper or a Micro-Mark Chop-it is great for this, but a hobby knife will do just fine. I must admit this was my first project using a Chop-it, and I loved it!
Choose your corner treatment: The subwall would be exposed with a simple butt joint, requiring a wide piece of corner trim. Hid- ing the subwall with a lap joint or butt joint (shown) required an overhanging piece of wall — not a problem with scribed sheath- ing, but a bit of a challenge with
individual planks. I have a belt sander, so it was easy to make beveled edges, thus solving both problems. I then capped the cor- ner with a piece of corner trim made from 2/32-inch and 3/32- inch planking.
Apply the siding: Apply the sid- ing to the subwall. If the subwall is wood or mat board, use white glue, tacky glue, or silicone glue. If the subwalls are styrene, use CA gel. I taped a square to my work surface to be sure to get good verticality on my strips. You can panel over the window and doors as well as over the top edge. They will be trimmed in the next step. Using your hobby knife, trim off the roofline. Use a chisel point blade to cut out the windows and doors. You will end up with a realistic and nicely weathered wall.
Walls The base walls were cut from balsa wood. The windows are from Tichy and some have been modified to fit into their specific locations.
mat board, or styrene would also work.
Making the Siding Lay out your stripwood siding
and give the strips a light coat of India ink/alcohol wash or your fa- vorite weathering solution. Now remove every third strip and give the remaining ones a second wash. Next, remove every other strip and give the last third a third coat of wash. The results should leave you with a nicely var- iegated stock of weathered siding material.
Using a cosmetic sponge and your favorite acrylic paint in the color of your choice (I used Amer- icana brand Heritage Brick), dry- brush the color onto the weath- ered strips. Drybrushing is done by picking up some paint with the sponge (or brush if you prefer), and then wiping most of it off on a piece of paper. When you apply
Board By Board Once the base walls were completed, I pro- ceeded to lay the stained board-by-board siding vertically over the balsa. Simply lay the boards in place, let the glue dry, and then trim.
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