The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . Figure 344 shows the pat-tern by which to cut the five pieces of cardboard, ofwhich the walls are made. The edges of these piecesshould be glued together with strips of linen. Cut thedoor openings at F, G, and H, two window openings at/andy, and slots in the tops of B and D at K, Z, M,iV, (9, and P, as shown in the drawing. Make the doorsout of pieces of cardboard, hinging them to the openingswith linen strips, and draw the window-sash and their SCENERY, PROPERTIES, AND MECHANICAL EFFECTS 323 divisions upon tissue-pap
The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . Figure 344 shows the pat-tern by which to cut the five pieces of cardboard, ofwhich the walls are made. The edges of these piecesshould be glued together with strips of linen. Cut thedoor openings at F, G, and H, two window openings at/andy, and slots in the tops of B and D at K, Z, M,iV, (9, and P, as shown in the drawing. Make the doorsout of pieces of cardboard, hinging them to the openingswith linen strips, and draw the window-sash and their SCENERY, PROPERTIES, AND MECHANICAL EFFECTS 323 divisions upon tissue-paper and paste them over theopenings I Oil the paper if it is not very trans-parent, so the audience can see the villain when he passesby the windows. Make a wainscoting around the wallsto the height of the window-sills, ruling the boards witha lead pencil, and draw a line across wall C a little belowthe bottom of slots M and N in walls B and D, as you have used white cardboard for the walls, and notinjured its calendered surface when cutting the openings,. Fig. 344. — Pattern for Walls of Interior Scene. it will have a good plaster appearance. Otherwise, coverthe cardboard with white or tinted paper. Paint thewainscoting and the door and window trimmings set up the room, bend the walls into the shape shownin Fig. 343. Then cut three strips of cardboard severalinches longer than the width of the room and slip theminto the slots you have cut in the tops of the walls Band D (see Q, R, and 6, Fig. 343). 7 is a drop like 6,but is suspended in front from the gridiron. Thesestrips form the ceiling of the room, and generally have 324 INDOOR PASTIMES beams or mouldings painted across their bottom edges,but it will simplify matters to leave them plain, as shownin the illustration. The line which you have drawnacross the rear wall corresponds with these strips. Cuta number of illustrations from a magazine for pictures,and either hang them upon the walls or paste
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