Santa Clara
Built by: Darrell and Kari
This was a school assignment, No kit, built from scraps, and modeled after the actual mission.
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| Made many years ago,
and now the left statue is missing. vandals? We took pics of the real
statues and shrunk and printed them. The mission made entirely of
styrofoam, cardboard, and paper. |
Here is our shortened
back. The assignment had size limitations. The palm tree is lost though
there WAS one. |
Right side view. All
of the doors are scanned and scaled dollhouse floor to door plank size.
We made the window panes the shape and color of the real mission too on
the computer. |
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| The roof was made from
strips of cardboard and painted terra cotta color. Like the spanish
tiles on the mission. |
To duplicate the real
thing, we mixed a few other colors, for some individual tiles. Several
different shades of nail polish got the colors used. |
We slopped this on
quickly, because the assignment was due. We were out of time. Odd color
tiles could be a little neater. The "deep set" of the windows also
matches the orginal which has thick adobe walls. |
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We used a jewelry finding, and toothpicks to make the now missing crosses, at the front roof peak and on the tower. |
This entire project
only took one evening. You know how kids are at letting you know when
an assingment is due. LOL! First we had to visit the mission, take
pics, and get them developed then build our own. But it was fun. |
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