Rita's Workshop

• Builders foam 1" thick (Bufoam)


http://www.manuelsweb.com/in_cm.htm For Metric conversion

You will need 3 pieces of Bufoam:

26 x 26 cm (10 x 10 inches)
21 x 25 cm (8.2 x 9 ¾ inches)
23 x 25 cm (9 x 9 ¾ inches)

• Cardboard, not too thin, but can easily be cut with scissors
• Waterbased paints, the kind real house painters use for inside walls:
  
              Umber green
              White
              Black
              Honey yellow
  
• Spackling compound
• Very soft white artist pastel-chalk
• White wood Glue or Tacky Glue

• 1 sheet of Balsa wood, 1/4 inch thick or Balsa wood sticks, 1/4x1/4 inch
• Artist watercolors:

Yellow Ochre, some call it light Ochre
Raw Umber
Paynes grey
Brown Madder or Caput Mortuum deep or Indisch red light
Olive Green

• 2 small wooden turnings or 2 oval beads (1/4" long or a little longer)
• Fimo - Best is white doll fimo or porcelain fimo or translucent Fimo. Don’t get Fimo soft !
  Gluesticks for hotglue-gun
• A few leftover mini bricks or brick-cutouts or bricks on a sheet
• Granite stone paint (It makes things look like stone )
• A piece of acrylic glass or thin glass for the window opening
• Some leftover landscaping material from model railroaders supply like " grass", small stones, flat stones, moss, etc.

Tools:

• Ruler (cork backed is the best)
• Exacto Knife
• Pencils
• Paint Brushes
• 2 sm. Spatulas (Palette Knives), one with a pointed tip and one flat at the end.
• Hot Glue Gun
• Sandpaper – Medium or fine
• Scissors

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