It takes a village to....

Starting after coffee on a lazy sunday afternoon, I decided to work on the chimney’s.
I cut several blocks to fit in the pieces of wall where I didn’t put any stone work.
One of the chimney’s will be internal.
I put my hotwire at a slant and cut the left and right side of the block. Then, using these as a guide, I knew where I should put my guide on the proxon to make the slanted sides join up. This is one of the first times I used the proxxon for something more than straith lines and I haven’t touched the surface yet.
I also cut some rectangles to fit on top op these. I made them to long on purpose. I want to took how high a roof looks good on these buildings.

I hollowed the chimney out with a knife. Not the smoothest job, but I figured this might be just as well. I might decide later to use some filler to smooth it out. It needs to look rough.
I also started on the firewood. I had these small pieces lying about. They’re actually for our guinea pigs to nibble on, but the arrogant little buggers thinks this is beneath them, I guess.
Normally I wood put this in the oven to dry and kill germs, but since it’s for pets, I assume it’s pretty clean and dry. I did soak it in a solution of water, alcohol and pva. Just to kill of the last stuuf that might eat the wood and seal it. This will get a couple of days to dry.

I managed to confuse which wall went where, resulting in huts that will be slightly different sizes, as I started cutting windows, chimney-holes and windows and this needed to add up. To prevent further confusion I decided to colour-code them.

Using a small tool from shifting lands I marked the brickwork.
Than the tedious job of drawing them in. I had already roughed up the sides with my rolling pin. Using a dull colour pencil I draw in the brick work. Since I want these grooves big and rough I use this type of pencil. A hard and sharp pencil tends to rip the material if you go in to deep. That’s best to draw liitle details you want to cut.
Oh, yeah. Remember I said I cut so many small strips?
I needed way more of those.