To cut your own
wood: Trace the pattern onto the wood piece.
Use the line you’ve drawn as your cutting line, making
sure that when you cut the wood, you cut on the inside of
the line.
Cut the animal shapes from 1/2" Baltic birch. The barn/silo
piece is cut from the 3/8" wood and the roof and ground
is from 1" wood.
Before cutting the wooden pieces, lay the apple half and
cherry half onto the line drawing and trace around them.
This ensures they are the same size and shape as the pattern.
Sand and wipe the wood pieces with a tack cloth. Seal with multi-purpose sealer.
Allow to dry and lightly sand again. Wipe with a tack cloth. Transfer the pattern to the wood pieces.
Please refer to the pattern
for dotting and “x” ing, which indicate exact
areas of shading and highlighting, respectively.
Paint, as follows, remembering to well.
Barn: Base with Antique Rose and shade with Country Red.
Base the roof with Slate Grey and shade with Neutral Grey.
Base shutters and ground with Arbor Green and shade with Hauser Dark Green.
Base loft opening with Charcoal Grey and shade with Lamp (Ebony) Black. Base nail heads with Lamp (Ebony) Black.
Silo: Base with Desert Sand and shade with Honey Brown.
Base the opened brick area with Antique Rose and shade with Heritage Brick.
With a liner and thinned Slate Grey, paint grout. Shade the grouted areas with Charcoal Grey.
Base the silo dome with Slate Grey and shade with Neutral Grey.
Hay: Base with Golden Straw and shade with Honey Brown.
Corn: Base the corn stalk with Hauser
Light Green and shade with Hauser Dark Green. Highlight here and there with Moon Yellow.
Base the ears with Moon Yellow and shade with Honey Brown.
With Moon Yellow and the berry maker, paint dip-dots for the individual kernels.
Rooster: Base with White Wash and shade with Desert Sand. Base his comb and waddle with
Antique Rose. Base beak with Moon Yellow. Shade the comb,
waddle and beak with Country Red.
Hen: Base with Desert
Sand and shade with Honey Brown. Shade again here and there
with Burnt Sienna. With thinned Burnt Sienna and a liner
brush, paint lines in tail feathers. Base comb with Antique
Rose. Base beak with Moon Yellow. Shade beak and comb with
Country Red.
Cow: Base with White Wash. Base muzzle with
Flesh Tone and shade with Shading Flesh.
Base the spots
and hooves with Lamp (Ebony) Black.
Shade the cow with Desert
Sand. Highlight the hooves with White Wash.
Goat: Base with
Desert Sand and shade with Honey Brown.
Highlight the beard
and tail with White Wash. Shade rings onto horns with Burnt
Sienna.
Horse: Base with Slate Grey and shade with Neutral
Grey.
Base the hooves with Lamp (Ebony) Black and highlight
with White Wash.
Highlight tail, mane and spots on the back
of the horse with White Wash.
Pig pendulum: Base with Flesh
Tone and shade with Shading Flesh.
Fence: Base each fence
post with White Wash. After assembly, shade them with Desert
Sand.
Attach the roof line to the barn and the ground to the
barn. Drill the small holes first and then nail from the
back side.
Attach the fence, one craft stick at a time, by drilling
a small hole first and then finishing with a small nail.
When all the vertical fence posts are attached, tacky-glue
a horizontal fence post on each side behind the vertical
fence posts.
Blush cheeks on the sun and all the animals with a stencil
brush, using Blush Flesh.
Finish all pen work on each piece, as indicated on pattern.
Tacky-glue
heads into place on the critters, and domed disks onto
the pig, sun, hay and silo.
Tacky-glue corn stalks into place, and the pigs ear into
place.
Dip dot eyes with a stylus and Lamp (Ebony) Black. Base
noses on the animals, using the same color and the spotter
brush.
Spray the finished wood pieces with matte sealer.
Drill a hole into the rooster where indicated and a hole
above the hay. Tacky-glue one end of a coiled piece of
wire into the hole in the chicken and glue the other end
into the hole above the hay.
Fashion “N,” “S,” “E”
and “W” out of wire, as indicated on the pattern.
Tacky-glue each end of the letters into a hole drilled
into each point of the “x.”
Twist a loop from the wire and insert through a hole drilled
in the middle of the wooden weather vane “x.”
Tacky-glue the weather vane into hole drilled in the top
of the barn roof.
Assemble the clock as per the manufacturer’s instructions.
