Here are two of the Playskool Sesame Street buildings masked and ready to paint.
Between the photo above and this photo, I have also dusted the buildings lightly with flat white paint to brighten up what will be the "concrete" and "limestone" bits once the rest is painted. This also adds a bit of "texture."
You'll notice that where the detail is fine, I used many little pieces of tape rather than trying to do anything heroic and clever. For instance, to do the arch in the store's second-story windows, I used strips of tape that I curved around to get the edge, then I roughly cut another piece to fill in the "gap."
I plan to paint the roofs flat black. Ordinarily I might not have bothered to mask them, but when I masked the stone "molding" around the edges, I had tape overlapping the roof anyway. So masking the whole roof now means that I'll have a more even painting surface when I come back with the black paint.
Again when you do one of these yourself, you start realizing just how much detail the company molded into these shape. I've actually contacted BOTH Fischer Price and Playskool to see of the old molds are laying around somewhere, but neither company ever got back to me.
Also, you'll realize that you don't want to do this twice, so you'll REALLY pay attention and make sure you do it right in the first place.
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