My first building went together pretty easily. But clumsy me had to grab it one day while it was drying right on the frame of the windows and my finger broke right through causing four windows to become one. It also caused my what should have been a four story building to look more like it was a old town malt shop instead. It still worked though because it was a building and it also is a candle holder. With this building I was actually successful at making a bottom fitting tray to place a candle on.
For my second building I wamted to make a building that would have long windows along the top of it. Which I was successfully at accomplishing, however instead of it appearing like a building with cool looking long windows across it's top floor it instead appeared at least to me like a church type building. Which I def was not intending for it to resemble at all. And when it got places next to my first building they instantly became some old mining ghost town. Which was fine because then my mine had other pieces to go with it and it no longer was standing alone. I am definitely glad for that because it had been to me looking kind of alone and out of place which I was not liking. So I most certainly am glad of that.
For my next building I wanted to try something different that would hopefully make my next building look more like a city building like I wanted. When I made my first two buildings I used a boxes for their frames. For this next building I was going to try to make it like the one I had seen searching Google. It had multiple floors and you could see through to the other side of it. I figured I could pretty easily create a building similarly to those I had seen by creating a frame cor each floor that would have several pegs standing on it creating windows all around it. I had figured that it would not be very hard for me to be able to build a possibly 10 story building as long as I did the floors individually and assembled them together one on top of the other. So I made a whole bunch of pegs because each floor was going to need to have 12 pegs standing from it. I created the first floor just how I had seen andit came together really easily. The second floor too. But by the time I was finished with the second floor I was seeing it drying before I was done making the other floors so I figured I had better start putting them together before they got to dry. I flipped the second floor onto the first and it fell off on a couple of the sides but I was able to save the floor by just setting it back on top of the first floor where it was supposed to be. I went back to securing the pegs to the first floor and it was not untill I haalmost all of them secured that I noticed that I had flipped it on to the first floor incorrectly and I now was hoing to need to do some corrections if I was going to get this floor on correctly. I had figured that I would be able to keep the peg framing from falling in on itself by placing plastic inbetween the pegs which made each window but I saw pretty quockly that this was not going to be enough to keep them from falling in so I took some thick card broad that I had and cut out little cubes that would fit inbeteen the peg and make the windows not be able to cave in. I covered each cube with plastic so that it could be separated once it dryed enough to be able to support itself. This worked out pretty well and I was able to get the two floors together. Much more time had passed by the time I had this accomplished so that there was no was that I was also going to be able to create one of the other buildings which I had thought maybe I could have also have created. The first of them being my favorit building The Transamerica building the other being like the round one that is just outside LA that we always saw off I10 on our way to Magic Mountain each time we went when I was a kid. While I was thinking that this could be possible I researched all I could on the layout of the Transamerica building because I wanted mine to be a fairly exact replica of it but lots lots smaller. As I researched I also keep working on the next floors that I would be placing on the ones I had already gotten together and I also started making walls that were going to be the walls of my round building. So by the time I had gotten the two floors of my first building securely together I also had the walls of the first to floors of my round building made and ready go be placed together along with the next two floors that were suppost to be able go be placed on the first two. This ended up not happening though because both of the new floors I had made I also managed to mess up. I had also been working on putting together a middle divider floor that would be totally different from the others. I felt I still have enough time to be able to at least get a few more floors for this first building made and secured to the others before it was due but that sure was not going to be happening once I totaled the two floors I had just created. I did however still have the round building coming together pretty well and I was just to the point where I was just going to be able to place the first two floors of the round building together. Unfortunately when I tried putting them together it did not go very well and the second floor fell into the first. This totally messed up my round building and put an end to its creation. I however thought that I could probably save the buiding by making it into a light house rather than a skyscraper. So I rolled out and cut out what was to be the top part of a light house and was letting them firm up some before I attempted to try and place them on the messed up round buiding because I did not want them to do as its second floor had done and also cause this building to be a bust. I ended up letting the new top pieces dry more then they should have and I figured this was the end but I still tried. I placed the 4 sides over the first part that I had created and I sealed it all up hoping that this might save it and I could still make this into a lighthouse. At the sme time I was also working on that middle piece I mentioned earlier and it was not going as easy as the floors had because with this floor I could not easily place some cardboard into the areas that might fall in. I was instead just having to rely on plastic to do the job. While I worked on this middle floor I also began working on another set of two floors that were to go over the middle floor. I was also working on what was to be the bottom part of this building and be were candles would be placed. I had come up with the idea of creating small bricks that I could create a wall at least 4 bricks high. I quickly came to my senses amd desided that, this was heading to be a task which I in no way had the time it would have required. Just creating the approximately 50+ bricks which I used to begin crearing a botton candle tray and whatever it was that it took for me to line up side by side just above the second floor took me awhile toform and place. I could and wanted only to imagine what m8re it would have taken me to form and place the remaining bricks would have taken me forever. So I ended my brick idea with the single layer that I had already placed above the second floor and ceased my progress on the bottom tray that I had started.
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