Jabulani Station - Part 3

The next step in building the Jabulani station building is framing in the window and door openings.  For this I use Canson Mi-Teintes pastel paper, which has one rough side and one relatively smooth side, and comes in a variety of colors.  I used "Felt Gray".  Using pastel paper for wood siding and planking is a tehnique stolen from Troels Kirk, who uses this method on his Coast Line Railroad. 

The rough side of the paper is painted rather messily with two different shades of chocolate brown, allowing some of the texture and gray color of the paper to show through.  The gray parts left exposed appear as areas of peeled paint when strips (planks) are cut.

The strips are cut a scale four inches wide.  They are then cut to length to form the framing and casings for the windows and doors, and are glued in place using PVA glue.  The window sills are cut a scale six inches wide from strips of 1mm thick cardstock. 

For me, this is the most tedious part of construction, and it is a relief when all the openings are completed. 

The pastel paper technique is used best when creating a wood-sided structure.  I use three different colors of grey paper painted generally the same color with a dab of grey or brown paint here and there.  Again, here is a picture of a wood-sided building I completed a couple of weeks ago.

The next step in the process is to get the windows glazed.