Making siding from foamcore

At our M.E.E. meeting tonight, we decided that next year's project would be "she-sheds". Tina said she would cut the buildings for 1:48 scale but not for 1:12 scale. 

As I haven't gone over to the dark side yet (still have a kazillion pieces of furniture and accessories in 1:12), when the discussion came around to those of us who still do 1:12, I remembered this little vignette that I taught to some friends in Nova Scotia on my last trip (way too  long ago) to visit Cheryl.

I looked at one plan tonight for a 1:12 she-shed and thought, "Ooh, that's simple enough it could be done in 1/2" foamcore." Yipes! That was before I looked at the cost of it! 

So I'm thinking that if you glued together two pieces of the foamcore from Dollarama, you'd get a good piece of 3/8" foamcore which should be sturdy enough for a simple roombox.

I'm pretty sure this idea of scoring foamcore to make siding came from Joann Swanson.

Sorry these pictures are so poor. I took them in the living room where the lighting is terrible.

Here's the vignette...very simple...just a framed bit of siding and door with a decorated porch.

Just a small 4 3/4" wide sample:

On the right hand side you can just faintly see where I have marked  1/2" increments. They are about 1/4 of the way in from the left. 

Didn't want a pencil mark across the paper so I just used a ruler and X-Acto knife to cut across the markings. Just through the paper and about 1/2 way through the foam...which is how you're supposed to make the first cut anyway.

Then I used the top of my X-Acto knife to make an indentation at an angle along the cut line.

Here I've tried to show you the edge with the angle.

(This is driving me nuts!!!   The type is defaulting to blue and underlined. Can change it back to black but can't get rid of the underline! )

Anyway, that's just my little tip for today. 

(Finally figured it out! The underlining was creating a link so I had to tell it to delete the link and that erased the underlining.)

Real life has caught up with me big time. My DD Leanne has been doing my shopping for me since the first time we were put in lockdown because of the pandemic and every two months or so, she goes to Costco and gets me a big order of hamburger, chicken breasts and pork tenderloin. That all, of course, has to be cooked and/or frozen into individual servings. Great once it's done but time intensive until it's all been taken care of.

Got all the paperwork (well, 90% of it) done from the workroom cleanup. Got my taxes done and will do DS Shirley's tomorrow.

Have had another interesting project to do that I'll tell you about tomorrow. It's non-mini but such a pleasure and a joy to do.