Dancing with Paint
Friday, March 13th, 2009There are two principles at work in dancing back and forth between painting and gluing when building a dollhouse. The structural strength of a dollhouse requires gluing to un-painted surfaces, but the tidy look of clean paint-lines requires that the parts are painted before they are glued together. How can you do both?
The short answer is to plan ahead – to assemble before painting where the colors are the same, and to paint before assembly where they are different. Well, like most short answers, that’s not always true. (more…)