Cutting lots and lots of egg carton bricks, each 10mm x 5mm, for the sake of convenience, although not exactly to scale. This is what approximately 500 bricks looks like:
Not very impressive is it?! Given I am going to be bricking most of the facade, and all of the sides (!), I am going to need a LOT more bricks.
I've also been trying to sketch a mock up for the facade, but my drawing skills are sadly lacking. I converted a photo of the Art Deco dollhouse kit to a pencil sketch in a photo-editing program and printed it out, then scribbled a rough idea of what I want on it.
Something like this:
I can't decide if I want bricks or stucco between the windows, to make the facade a little more interesting? I will do the concrete sills (from balsa wood sticks) and the concrete strips above the windows first, and then see what it looks like. I think the Men of Letters would have a very understated building, so as to not draw attention to themselves, so I feel that too much decoration would not be in character.
To take a break from brick-making, I undercoated the front and side pieces. I used craft paint, Jo Sonja's Nimbus Grey, as I want to use grey grout for the bricks.
I still can't decide whether to paint the windows off-white or black? I have seen black on Art Deco buildings, although a creamy yellow is much more common, even on industrial buildings.
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