A (very) little experiment

[Phred]

Thanks, Mountain, for those very interesting video links. Such a lot to see in one place! Those wooded hills in the background must have some beautiful walking paths. Easy to see where you get your passion for narrow gauge as well.

Meanwhile, back at the shed…
Poured some of the fine gravel around the walls and flooded it with PVA mix. I know, it looks as if the dog threw up. I also sprinkled some sand over the walls and drizzled on some PVA mix so as to fill some of the gaps and give it a less ‘rocky’ appearance.

Now I’ll go and play with some random materials and see what I can use to make grass/foliage since I’m too lousy to buy a bag of commercial stuff.

[Phred]

Right then. Here’s what I’ve come up with:

In the front is green tea leaves thoroughly mixed with a blob of “Oxide Green’ acrylic paint. I figured black tea would come out too dark.
Behind that (in the middle) is sawdust mixed with ‘Grass Green' acrylic paint.
Back right is sand mixed with ‘Sage’ acrylic paint. Dried nice and crumbly. Easy to sprinkle.
Back left is the same sand mixed with ‘Olive’ acrylic paint. Dried out solid as mortar, but it can be crushed with pliers, so it might be useful somewhere.

Now I’ll go and see how I can apply this so that it looks a bit like foliage.

[Mountain]

Looking good to me.

[Phred]

Cheers Mountain!

Applied some ‘grass’ etc. and a creeper growing up a back corner.

I found that the easiest method was to paint the PVA mix on with an artist’s brush and then sprinkle the foliage mix over it. Give it a good tap on the roof and under the base to settle things in, then leave it alone overnight.

Now I’ll get on with adding vegetation to the rest of the shed and post the results tomorrow.

[Phred]

Well, it’s tomorrow already and here is the final result:

Now that it looks a bit picturesque, I expect someone will be along to have it condemned and demolished before it can be heritage listed.

Until next time comrades!

[Mountain]

One would need to whitewash it and make it look new if it has been listed.

[Dad-1]

What a brilliant (very) little experiment.
Just the thing to have hidden at the bottom of the garden.

Geoff T.

[Phred]

Mountain wrote:
One would need to whitewash it and make it look new if it has been listed.

Too true! Might be time for a mysterious fire to break out...

Dad-1 wrote:
What a brilliant (very) little experiment.
Just the thing to have hidden at the bottom of the garden.

Actually, that's not a bad idea. I might hide it in amongst the flowers so the grandkids can discover a little 'fairy house'.

[Bigmet]

Now that it looks a bit picturesque, I expect someone will be along to have it condemned and demolished before it can be heritage listed...

That last of your pictures looks like a shed on a small island in a large freshwater lake; never mind putting it in among the flowers for the grandkids.

... I might hide it in amongst the flowers so the grandkids can discover a little 'fairy house'.

Cautionary tale relating to young girls, and such suggestions of 'little folk'. Long, long ago, a friend (somewhat older than I was) had a decorative very gnarly small tree in the 'wild' corner of the garden, and I was enlisted to install a door where the bark had cracked at ground level, and a window somewhat higher up where a branch had long before been lopped off, leaving a hole in the bark. The granddaughters 'discovered it' without any prompting and their friends came to see it, and a couple of years later great was the distress when the 'Michael Fish' not a hurricane struck and the tree fell over...

[Phred]

Bigmet wrote:
looks like a shed on a small island in a large freshwater lake

Bet they can't get flood insurance.

Bigmet wrote:
great was the distress when the 'Michael Fish' not a hurricane struck and the tree fell over...

Oh dear! I hope it wasn't this one:

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