piece of cardboard for the roof. I covered it with masking tape strips and painted them with a mixture of black & antique white paint. The trim boards and wainscoting were painted with hunter green.
Comic Book Pictures
The comic book pictures were downloaded from various sites on the internet. Another way to get some pictures would be to purchase some cheap 25 cent comic books from a local comic shop. Once I figured out where the pictures should go, I simply sanded the backs of them with an emory board and glued them onto the walls using Aleene's tacky glue. I then rubbed my fingernails back and forth on the pictures until the wallboards from underneath started to show up.
Summary
Scratch building is a lot of fun. You can get exactly the effect
Figure 3: The Skeeter's dirt track sign was made on my computer with Paint Shop Pro software. Racing clipart for the sign was found on the internet.
Since I drew my own plans, I wasn't sure if the building would look right. So I decided to make a mockup of the building out of 1/8" foam core. This turned out to be a nice material to use for the final product. I glued it together but I would recommend that you tape the sections together. This way you can untape the sections later and lay the wall sections flat on the workbench while installing window, door castings and all the signs.
Once you have cut out all the window and door openings, add some 1/8" sq. bracing on the inside of the foam core sub-walls. Each wall was covered with 1/32" x 1/16" strip wood boards that had been stained with a wash of Alcohol and India Ink. These boards were cut long and trimmed with a hobby knife to save some time on assembling the building. The window castings where painted green and once dried where filled with Gallery Glass.
The walls were glued together using a 1/4" sq. grid paper to align up the walls. I installed a couple of 1/8" sq. roof beams from front to back and then I added a
