Where in the World are the Wires...?

 

 

The Back Side of the Castle...

As I was remarking last week, Dear Readers, what a difference it made to get the Gray Paint onto the Castle plywood walls, I was pondering the scale of this task. The Castle is Large.... three sections which pull apart and each could qualify as a large dollhouse, all made of rough grade 3/8th inch plywood, almost none of which had seen any paint on most of the surfaces. The exception is the interiors of the lower level rooms and the doors on the opening fronts, but the back and sides of the exterior is still the raw plywood. And it has been left unpainted for more than ten years! I decided that I better just get painting! The idea was to get the Lord's Tower done.... and then see about the back of the Great Hall section.

Just moving the sections to a position where I could

 access the back was rather tricky.

 The Tower is heavy and there is not enough room on the Base

 (where the caves are) to pivot the sections 

and be able to access the sides to work on them.

I had to lift the Tower off the base onto a large chest

 which is just tall enough that I

 didn't have to lower the Tower very far.

Once I had access to all the sides, 

I realized I still had a ton of work to do

 burying the wires in the walls

 before I would be able to paint them.

While I had done most of that wire work 

on the Great Hall section ages ago!

There was only one light still not in place...

And while I started on that light, 

I could paint the one Tower wall

 that didn't have any wiring... 

the one that abuts the Great Hall.

The single missing light for the Great Hall Section 

was for the pantry on the bottom tier beside the kitchen.

I had not decided whether it should be a lantern or a candle stub...

but had prepared a perch beside the door to the stables ages ago... 

and had even carved the wiring channel too!

Since the construction of both would begin the same way...

I made a "candle" on a "platform"

 which could turn into a lantern

 at a later date if necessary...

Here you can see I am testing it in place...

It works! 

(I think it will stay as just a "candle"... 

lanterns were a fancy and safe kind of portable light... 

this is just a storage pantry and a candle would suffice!)

But first I needed to finish the details of the "candle"...

 

I needed to make the candle look like drippy wax.
 

Here you can see I have glued the wire into the carved channel...

Where it goes around the corner

 I drill through the corner so the wire

 is less vulnerable to accidental damage.

Here you can see the back side of the 

Great Hall section with the carved channels.

All the wires for The Great Hall and Kitchen

 and now the Pantries too, end up at 

the Electrical box on the back of the Great Hall.

Which is where the Plug Strip is hidden.

The wire runs out the bottom to the transformer.

All of this was built in 2011,

 only lacking the final light in the Pantry!

The Electrical Box is in the bottom of the Chimney shaft.

And while we are back here, with the Castle all pulled apart,

 why not just get the trim around those windows attached

 and get the paint on the plywood?

I already had strip wood painted...

 it is not going to be fancy... 

Who will ever see it?

And once I had filled all the screw holes....

Finally... FINALLY it is time to get the primer on

 the back side of the Great Hall!

Of course, it had gotten late... 

and the sun is setting earlier and earlier....

I had to wait for the next day to get a halfway decent picture.

First the primer....

And then the first coat of gray paint.

And once again... it is getting late.

And once again... 

I am wondering what took me so long...!

But now you know Dear Readers, 

where those wires are hidden...

On the Back side of the Great Hall!