The Boring Part....

 

 But it's Progress...!

It was a busy Weekend, Dear Readers, with too many tasks and not much mini time, so I don't have much to show that you haven't seen before. Yes, it is the boring stuff, carving the channels for the wires across the back of the Lord's Tower and starting to glue them in place. You will remember that I was about to work on painting the back of this Tower weeks and weeks ago when I realized that all the wires still needed to be buried in the walls, while they had already been finished on the back of The Great Hall portion of the Castle. And that led me to work first on painting the back of the Great Hall and then on The Chapel Tower (fewer wires to bury!) and now, finally I am facing the Lord's Tower wiring. Maybe because I had practiced on The Chapel Tower, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be carving all those channels on The Lord's Tower! Jodi of "My Miniature Madness" blog had suggested I try a chisel to carve these channels, but years ago I actually broke a very good wood carving gouge on this plywood. So I am just sticking with the exacto knives which have a replaceable blade. It is slow going, but they are sharp! Because the "plug box" will go on the side of the Tower where it is accessible (also still needs to be built) all the wires from the back needed to go through the corner onto the side of the Tower. I drilled all those wire holes through the corner. You can see in the above picture that in order to work on the back, I had to turn the Tower around. The entrance door on the side wall is now facing out. You hardly ever get to see a view of this side of the Tower! (I also still need to attach the stairs that go up to the Main door...)

I know that it is difficult to see, 

but in this picture most of the wires have been 

brought through the holes on the corner of the Tower.

From here they will run down to the plug box 

in yet to be carved channels.

And here you can (almost) see the

 wires are being glued into the channel...

(It was a very gloomy rainy day...

 and I am sure you don't really want to watch the glue drying....)

This is the back of The Lord's Chamber where

 the wires from the fireplace mantle come through.

And since the goal is to get the paint on the back side of the Castle... 

I painted the primer as soon as I was done carving all those channels.

I even carved the one for the room at the top which I have not built yet.

This will carry at least the fireplace wires when that gets built.

There will need to be more channels carved on the side wall

 to get all the wires to the plug box.... 

but we will work on that later... much later!

And then the first coat of the gray paint... 

I know, it is such a dark day, this looks way too dark!

And some of the wires are not ready to be glued in yet...

 I have to make sure their lights

 are just the way I want them first.

 But at least now the channels are ready!

And that's all I have to show, Dear Readers,

You've seen it all before...

The boring part of the back side of The Tower.

But it is Progress!