Matching all the pieces turned out to be very hard. I have a lot of gaps in this that I am not happy about but I suppose for my very first project it isn't bad. I learned a lot. I found how easy it is to cut hard wood badly. If you don't have a sharp tensioned blade the edges are not straight which makes fitting together a nightmare. The bottoms may match up but the tops don't. I will pay much more attention in the future to how perpendicular the edges are.
Just to recap the use of wood this is what I used:
- Ash
- Top of sky
- Red Cedar
- Middle sky (sunset)
- Alder
- Bottom of sky
- Blue Pine
- Water
- Aspen
- White part of lighthouse
- White part of houses
- Cherry
- Middle of lighthouse
- Roof tops
- Walnut
- Top of lighthouse
- Mountains
- Rocks in foreground
- Ebony
- Windows and Doors
- Poplar
- Green foreground (bushes)
- Oak
- Light ground in foreground
- Bocote
- Frame
