Ravenwood .....

 

More Windows...

You Might Recall, Dear Readers, that a few weeks ago, before the Mayhem that is All Hallows Eve on this blog took over, I was embarking on the building of the 144th scale Ravenwood Kit designed by Sean and Robin Betterley. It is a wonderful kit! But soon after I started to build it I realized that I needed to make a few changes. The first was adding a window to the Tower attic, because I could not accept that there was an attic with no access at all. Well, no sooner had I added it, than I looked at the other two attic rooms on the sides of the house and decided that they had to have windows too. I hadn't noticed this lack when I was making the Secret Christmas House kit, many years ago, but now I just thought an attic room with no window was intolerable! So I started right in cutting the openings in the roof.

This was done in much the same way as the window for the Tower, 

starting by drilling a hole with an ever larger bit. 

Only this time the window wanted to have a pointed gothic shape.

So I used my small files to form the window opening into the gothic arch.

Then I added the cardboard "dormer roof" over each one,

 trying to match them in size as best I could.

(I am hand cutting all these pieces.)

Here you can see the position of the window when

 the "pullout" section is in the House frame.

It is on the side of the building rather than the front

 because I want to be able to see the dormer window

 from inside when I have the rooms "open".

The next step was to try to cut a window frame out of card stock...

And paint it black... 

it is easier to do this step before

 you cut it completely out of the card stock...

Then I glued it and the window pane... 

(cut from thick plastic packaging...)

into the opening, trying to be sure

 it remained as vertical as possible.

 

Here you can see the window with the light reflecting off it...

 clearly showing how uneven my window panes are!

(But who is ever going to be close enough to notice that ...?)

Here is the dormer seen from the interior of the room.

 I painted the interior of the dormer a color similar

 to the wallpaper which will be used in this room...

 we will see how it looks when the paper is added.

Here you can see both windows are done!

I really like the view through the window into the room!

And even better the "window shadow" on the floor!

And here the "rooms" are inside the house frame...

 showing the new windows in the attic rooms!

And I hope you will agree with me, Dear Readers,

that in spite of all the beautiful windows that came with this kit,

 it definitely needed a few more!