Gorram Tracy Island

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Part eight - Thursday’s child has catching up to do!

January 29, 2026

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Tuesday and Wednesday got away from me with work but I did make it to Hobbycraft for the pipe cleaners and crepe paper I’m going to need and B&Q for some house paint.

Tonight I managed to get home from work at a reasonable time and got a few hours for the next stage.

The instructions call for covering the cliffs with scrunched up tin foil. It says to use a little PVA in the middle and at the edges to get it to stick and then press it into the papier-mâché to give a good rock texture. I also used some to build out areas that felt a little weak after the last step dried, especially around the main house platform.

It sort of worked. The rock texture is good but getting the foil to stick was much harder. Any areas where the foil had to overlap just wouldn’t reliably stick down. This was clearly going to be a problem, especially at the painting stage next. Normally I’d just take some stronger grab adhesive and use that but as I’m problem solving like an eight year old, I decided to make a slurry of the PVA and flour and to use more paper over the cracks. I think it should do the job but we’ll need to wait and see once it is all dry. I have a feeling that the texture difference is going to be more noticeable when it is dry but that’s a future painting me problem.