A little more progress on Carl’s house...
The house itself is mostly done, with just some touch-up and light weathering work needed on the “above ground” portion. Underside detailing still needs to be done. The white wire coming out of the top is the hanging wire, while the red/black one is for power.
I also needed to start building out the balloons. I bought 25 plastic mini balloon bundles (with 8 balloons each) from China (via eBay) a while ago. The plan is to bunch these together like a bouquet to create a somewhat convincing set of balloons to lift the house. They are a bit out of scale (probably more like G-scale+), but this was the smallest I could find.
..of course, these balloons are somewhat lacking in variety as there is no blue. I am repainting 20% of them blue so as to create a more pleasing, balanced, and screen-representative set of colors:
...more to come!