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Just Get On With It Man!


KH1

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blog-0622539001386634796.jpgAfter completing last nights post where I practically convinced myself that I wasn't going to bother with this advert business I realised that would just not do so gave myself a couple of bracing slaps and just got on with it! Didn't actually take me that long as had got further than I thought with the Dubonnet ad. This was the inspirationblogentry-16008-0-87190500-1386633911_thumb.jpg

 

I opened it in PhotoShop then transformed it to remove the perspective then on separate layers, traced the outline of the letters. I then dragged this over to a new canvas that I had drawn an outline of the building end and scaled it to fit. A blue layer was added and a distressed plaster layer then a bit of a play with the layer blending styles gave me this blogentry-16008-0-88092400-1386633883_thumb.jpg

 

It was time for bed then, so in a spare moment this afternoon I printed it out on decal paper, bunged it in water and onto the building. A little more distressing when dry gave me this blogentry-16008-0-38298800-1386633732_thumb.jpg

 

Pretty pleased and will certainly do some more that will be a bit more visible on the finished layout. Now I really must get to grips with that brick colour as this is one job that really would be awkward once the building is stuck down.

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Now you're cooking with charcoal.....

You're right!  Should have made the rafters from wooden barbecue sticks

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