Medieval Shop Buildings

Hi! So, I've been taking about my medieval shops for awhile, but I haven't ever posted pictures, so here they are:

This building is going to be my fish market.

This building is going to be the butcher.

This building is going to be my bakery.

 So, as you can see, lots of work has gone into these buildings, but there is still lots to be done. I still have to use my wallboard joint complex and brick all of the corners of my buildings. I also have to build and install ledges in my big windows for meat displays. The roof tiles you see on the two side building are terracotta tiles. My mom and I are making them using terracotta colored paper. we curl, score, shape, and glue the tiles onto our roof in strips. After they are glued on completely, we will stain them to make them dirty, and put a protective coat of modge podge over them.

After the buildings themselves are done, we have to decorate the inside, and finish making our cobble stone base. Here's a picture of the cobble stones in progress:

To make the stones, we are cutting egg cartons into stone shaped pieces. Then, I'm taking glue and gluing our "stones" to a wooden base. Once all the stones are finish being glued, we will use wallboard joint compound and grout in between each stone. Lastly, we will paint the stones a nice color, and oila! I hope it works.

Well, that's the building so far. If we finish before July 2, my mom and I will enter an online contest with our house, which will give us a chance to earn up to $500. I hope we finish. $500 could found our dollhouse exploits for a long time...

Bye!