How To Make Clapboard Siding For Dollhouse

The scale of your dollhouse matters when selecting materials to make clapboard siding for your dollhouse.

How to make clapboard siding for dollhouse. Please follow my facebook page for more miniature madness. Wooden coffee stirrers craft sticks and tongue depressors all make good clapboard once you trim the round ends and decide whether or not to stain weather or paint them. Have a helper hold the foam. Use a utility blade to.

But again just a newbie i might be. Wooden coffee stirrers craft sticks and tongue depressors all make good clapboard once you trim the round ends and decide whether or not to stain weather or paint them. How to make siding for a doll house. Make templates for each wall of your dollhouse from sheets of shirt cardboard or thick poster board.

Nov 15 2013 the scale of your dollhouse matters when selecting materials to make clapboard siding for your dollhouse. That said i bet this how to sand dollhouse clapboard siding could apply to the kind of clapboard siding that you buy as a sheet and attach to a shell that doesn t have it. Cut a piece of rigid craft foam or very thin styrofoam r to the dimensions of each side of your doll house. It is usually easier to first cut along the vertical lines then across the horizontal lines.

Hold or temporarily tape your siding sheet in place then using a pencil mark any doors and windows from inside the dollhouse to indicate your cutting lines. Cut your choice of siding material to the lengths needed to lay across each foam side panel. Select the material. Use 1 by 6 or 1 by 8 lumber.

That said i m going to bet this how to doesn t apply to clapboard siding you make on your own as in one board at a time. Remove the sheet and cut along the pencil lines with your knife. Choose straight 3 4 inch thick lumber that is free from open knots splits and checking. This is a tutorial that will show you how to mark your lines so your siding can be even once hung.