15mm Italian Chapel - Spring Clean Challenge
Problems with the base
I plan to mount the chapel and walls on a base and then build the cemetery inside the walls. I was planning on use 3mm mdf for the base and then gluing some textured wallpaper over the top. So, using PVA, I glued the wallpaper to the mdf and placed it flat under a heavy weight. This was the result:
As you can see, it warped. Badly. So I thought I would try foam board, wallpaper and PVA….
Same problem, which surprised me. I should have spotted the problem here but didn’t and tried again with 3mm plywood, wallpaper and pva…
At least is warped in a different direction. I then applied a little bit of brain power and changed the glue from pva to spray on floor tile adhesive and used foam board again. This time success!
I’ve then gone and primed the top with a Halfords yellow plastic primer. Then sprayed it with a Kobra Desert spray paint. This has, finally, given me a decent base and base colour to start building on.
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