Desert mural

Now, I am working on adding a wallpaper mural of a Route 66 view to the front curved wall. This was an early idea to go alongside reducing the front windows. I bought the mural in about March, so really want to see this finished...

The front wall is faced with standard 3.6mm plywood on the lower section, this is nailed in place. A couple of joints are not quite perfect. The top section is faced with flexible plywood and is NOT square, this will be an issue with the paper.

I buy thick lining paper and this goes on OK, I have to make several darts across the top to deal with the curve. Some joints and nails are still visible, so I add another layer of lining paper.

I hope I have learnt how to do this shaping with the cheap paper, now for the real stuff.
The mural is in 4 parts that you paste clockwise from the bottom right. The size is about 3 m wide and 2 m high, so I choose which view to go for (van about 2 m wide). I measure it so that the vertical join is down the right hand side of the window.

All through I am pasting the wall, although I am not supposed too; no choice. It just means each piece is a bit slow to put up as I wait for the paper to get damp and deal with the bubbles etc. I got a bit confused with the measurements, obviously it matters with this stuff, but nothing I haven't been able to cope with as I go.

First piece up successfully.

Pretty happy so far. There is a small tear in the paper halfway up the window, it doesn't show in this picture. I hope it will be unnoticeable when I fix the windowsill.

That's all I managed, back this weekend to finish it.