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Box Chruch
In honor of the start of Spring, I have my annual "Oh, yeah ... pollen"
week where I go through two boxes of facial tissue. Which leads to my
annual make some terrain out of tissue boxes event.
In this case, I will supplement with a puzzle box and a really
nice decorative deck of cards. Since the cat ate a couple cards from
each of the two really nice stained glass card decks, they are terrain
fodder now. And since stained glass screams "Church!" (since it is
not the right style for a
Marc Chagall
display), let's see what we can do ...
Well, the first bit is cut out some stained glass windows. Since cutting
them leaves a white edge, the black marker on the left is needed to edge
the "windows".
Now, I will cut the lip on the puzzle box top. I left a little larger lip
on the front and made it small enough to fit the windows for the back and sides.
This is a standard joint cut. Up from the bottom of the tissue box and
down from the top of the puzzle box, to let them join and overlap.
Like so.
I could measure the tissue box cutout for the lid, but instead I just
line it up and mark it.
Leaving us this. A nice fit and the lid still comes off.
Repeat the process for some cardboard as a support for the
peaked roof. Note that I am lining it up inside the box lid by the
width of one miniature base. This will make a ledge that minis can
walk on and also leave room for some minis as gargoyles.
We get a nice fitting roof now.
But need to close the end. I hold a piece of scrap paper up to the end
and mark the edge, then cut the shape out to use as a template for cutting
a piece of cardboard to go inside.
Again, I leave space to get a few figures in there during a game.
Since the roof is dry now, I will "tile" it with some corrugated cardboard.
Then add a cupola and some railing along the edge of the roof (it was
track from a marble racing toy).
Here are my gargoyles. Or saints. Or whatever.
Statues.
I will put two Hawkman and two Fury (black gargoyle female) figures on the
steeple and the rest (using some extra Hawkman wings) on the sides of the roof.
For the tissue box, we need an entrance on the inside.
By cutting the doorway leftover piece into strips, I can make a lintel piece
to keep it from looking like just a hole in the wall.
I could have made a lintel for the puzzle box double doors,
but since they will be partially hidden,
recessed inside the steeple, I didn't bother.
And here we have the finished project.
Like the interior lintel, I could have done stonework paint on the outside
of the church or the inside floor. And a bunch of other details.
But this was a three-hour afternoon project, and I think it came out quite
nice for play.
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