Making the sweet shop

(Left) I started by using the templates I had created from my white model to make the parts I needed.  I used three layers of ticket card instead of mount board as the sweet shop is circular and mount board would be too thick to use.  I glued the window sills on before bending the three levels of the sweet shop together.  I couldn't completely put the sweet shop together until I had painted the window frames and put the windows in place, which were made from acetate that I had printed the window design on.

 (Right) In these pictures I was making the shop window, I made it out of mount board and painted it a wood effect.  I then made sweets for the window out of Sculpey and foil and painted them bright colours.  The window seemed to to look a bit empty when I put it together to see what it looked like, I realised that it was missing a shelf.  So I made one to fit inside and made some bowls and put beads in for sweets, then stuck the window pane and window sill/shelves in place.  I put three arches in a couple of millimetres apart so that it would give the curve of the top of doorway more structure.  The next step was to paint the door and window sills and then the main sweet shop.

(Left) This is the completed sweet shop with my design next it.

Creating the base board and trellis

 To create the bases for my sets I cut out two boards.  The board for my stately home set is 2ft by 4ft but was cut in to an 'L' shape so that the sweet shop set could be placed behind it on a separate podium higher up.

(Image above) First I drew out ground plan and painted the board with three layers of paint to get natural tones of grass, I also used a sponge to create a stippled effect to get more of a grass texture.  I then used a product similar to flocking called Fine turf over the paint to create the grass areas.  To create the gravel path up to the door of the stately home I used a product made from ground up nut shells.

(Image above) This is the trellis I made for the side of the stately home.  I made it from a very soft thin piece of wood which I cut up into strips then glued into place.  To make the flowers I used green florists wire and then got small strips of purple/pink and green tissue paper layered it on top of each other and twisted the wire which created the flower.  I then wrapped the strips of flowers round the trellis.