The Red Door Flour Mill

For those of you wondering where I've been and what I've been up to it is called Greenleaf's Spring Fling Contest. The picture of the "Roof Options" is the kit we had to start with. We could make the kit into anything we thought up. I chose the standard roof option and went from there.

To make the container where the "grinding stones" would be I cut "Skinny Sticks" to size, taped them together and then glued it around an oatmeal container I cut down to size. Then I painted it and put a lid on it.

Here it is put together and painted. I did this while I was waiting for the actual kit to arrive.

Here is the kit put together and on its brick base. The bricks still need the mortar at this point but they are glued in place ready for the mortar. It was quite a process and very time consuming to glue all those itsy bitsy bricks to the wood making sure the spacing was right and that they were somewhat straight.

Another angle of the project. You can see from the side where I have added the board and baton siding and where I haven't. From there I went full steam into bringing my ideas to completion and I neglected to take pictures as I went. But the following three pictures are the ones I submitted as my entry.

The front view.

The front and wheel side view.

The interior.

There are a lot of great entries so I don't expect to win but for my first completed miniature project I'm pretty pleased with myself. The results of the contest will be announced the first week of June. Wish me luck.

Now it is onto the Miniatures.com Strip Wood contest. It is due September 30th so I'll be working on that from now until then.