The Shopping Sherpa: Making the cut

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Making the cut

I've been working on my HBS Creatin' Contest build. I finally pulled the sliding doors out of their packaging to mark the larger holes in the side walls.

There was a moment, when I spotted the cardboard that was under the rubber bands, that I thought that HBS had thoughtfully included a cardboard template for marking the size of the doors.

Pieces of a dollshouse building kit with a sliding door unit on top, covered with a piece of card.

But I was disappointed. And confused (what's it for, in that case?)

Pieces of a dollshouse building kit with a sliding door unit on top, covered with a piece of card, showing space at the top.

So I made my own template, took a deep breath and remembered Kitty And Kat Miniatures' advice that glue, wood filler and caulking pretty much can fix anything.

Voila! I used bits of the pieces I cut out to fill the side window while I was at it.

Side wall of a dolls house kit, with a hole cut for the sliding doors (which are in the hole) and a piece of wood inserted into a previously-cut window opening.

Two side walls of a dolls house kit, with holes cut for sliding doors and pieces of wood inserted into previously-cut window openings.

#HBSCreatinContest2015

3 comments :

kittyandkatminiatures said...: I will not lie.....I spent most of my evening in half scale correcting carpentry mistakes with wood filler :); 2:20 pm, October 14, 2015
Pepper said...: I think the cardboard was to protect the 'glass' and since HBS expect you to put the doors in the place they're measured for, they don't provide a template. That's what happens when you kit bash =0)
You've sussed it though. I like the idea you have putting it in the side, rather than square-front =0); 5:23 pm, October 14, 2015
AMCSviatko said...: Well duh! Why didn't I think of that? :-/; 8:05 am, October 15, 2015