THE MUNSTER HOUSE

The plan is to build a Halloween village with some well known House and creatures all made with Super sculpey clay. The first thing I did was make a paper house using index cards and tape. I collected a few pictures of the Munster house from the internet. I want it look like the Munster house but If I like the way some thing is going I will keep going that way. Above you can see the base with some pieces of  index card tape to it. Thats the way I make my templates which I will use to make 1/8" walls out of clay.

Here we have more pictures of  cut outs tape on the base. The nice thing about using paper is if you make a mistake just throw it away. The seam don`t really look that great now but I will be covering them once all the walls are up. I will add another layer on clay over them so I can add details like window, doors, & bricks.

This is the base which will grow some before I`m done. Now its about 11" wide  7" high & 8 1/2" deep. I plan on building trees and tomb stone around the house so it will get bigger. The ground will be about a 1/4 " thick. I`m also going to added the Munster theme song and leds.

Here is the clay cut outs and the base on my tile that I will be putting in the oven for 15 minutes at 275 degrees. Just like baking cookie. In the picture on the right you can see I added more ground, build out the porch, & started to add the roof.

Here I added the porch roof and second foor window.

Some pictures of the roof. I use the clay like glue to hold the pieces together.

I added  more to the second floor

More roof pictures. I layed the flat piece to the roof on for the picture. I will be removeing a piece of the bottom so I can added some leds to different room later.

Sorry the picture are so dark. The house is broken up into three different areas so I can light then up using different colors and have some  blinking.

I started detailing some of the front. As you can see its not perfect but this is my first one. I think after doing more the lines will be better,

The window doesn`t look centered but I have to add the second floor porch on the right side. I think painting it will take time.

I added the roof to the sides of the house. Next I`ll added more windows and the upper porch on the right.

I added the siding and the supports for the roof on the right side of the house. I made the supports by cutting strips of clay and heating them before I applied them to the porch. I did the same thing with the fence around the upper porch.

I still have a lot of work to do on the back but I`m getting there. I did not close up the roofs yet because I still have to make a door in the bottom so I can install the leds.

Here a nice view of the house and on the right is some details I`m going to add to the peaks of the roofs. I`ll just drille two small holes add crazy glue them in place.

I added the roof in the center and I also cut out all the windows in the front.

The picture on the left is the back of the house. I did go crazy with it because its the back. On the right is a side window which I  didn`t cut out. I`ll paint it later.

I plan on making some trees that will be part of the house base.

The trees are the last thing I`m going to add now. The next step is painting which I have to look into what colors and  type of paint. The lights will be installed after painting.

I did add a few stones on the front lawn. I think after I paint them they sould look better.  I`ll post the paint job when its done. Thank for stopping by    Frank

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