| Miniature Paintings |
[06 Apr 2012|10:27pm] |
I've been creating some miniature paintings this past month. These are mostly acrylics on wood board, using frames from the craft store. I used pins and cat whiskers to apply some of the smaller details.
( pictures under the cut )
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[16 Dec 2011|02:04am] |
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| Tiny Nativities! |
[25 Nov 2011|10:48pm] |
This community has been pretty quiet lately, but I thought I'd post some pics of the tiny stable I made for my Playmobil Nativity set today. :) I got the Playmobil set last year, and loved the quality of the people, animals, and accessories, but the stable was disappointingly made of cheap cardboard! A few weeks ago I saw these stables, made of untreated wood on a particle board base--at Target of all places--and thought it would be perfect for my Playmobils. :) I stained the wood and covered the base with this plastic sheet that is supposed to look like rock, something I originally got for my hobbit dollhouse but never used. I wove some pieces of plastic fern through the back to make a backdrop, and glued some fish gravel, sand, and coloured lichen here and there to make the stable look a bit decrepit.
Here it is the final result:
I really like the three Playmobil wise men; they are quite colourful, and came with a camel. :) The angel on top is interesting... she came with a little gold wand that had a star on top, which I found rather puzzling. Was it supposed to be a magic wand?! I must have missed that part of the Christmas story. :P ( Read more... )
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| Question about resources and maybe some tutorials |
[10 Sep 2011|11:36pm] |
I'm dipping my toes into creating miniatures, made quite enjoyable now that I have a new craft table in my office and a glorious little lamp that makes details quite nice.
Anyways.
I am hoping that you guys can steer me in the direction of some good resources on how to create various miniature objects. I have googled and googled and found lots of useful sites but most SELL the furniture and don't show HOW. Fairly high on my list are sinks! Also lamps. Also maybe glass vases (or glass looking vases). I'm pretty good at making some simple furniture; I'm working on it and also saving for some nice little handy tools to use.
So yes. Sinks and lamps and vases, but anything you think are useful, I will take!
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| Sylvanian Family Quandry... |
[09 Sep 2011|11:24pm] |
Hi guys,
Looking for honest advice from people who appreciate the cuteness of miniatures!
Five years ago, I lived in England for a year. (I'm fom the US.) I was looking around a toy shop and saw Sylvanian Families for the first time. I don't remember ever having them in the US, and totally lost my mind over how CUUUUUTE they are! I bought a single baby bunny figure as a souvenir, but nothing else.
I moved to Japan about four years ago. Upon moving here, I started collecting miniatures in earnest for the first time. I finally had the disposable income to do so, and LOVE getting the "mystery boxes" of miniatures that are popular here. I figure they're cute, usually Japanese-ish, will make great souvenirs for myself when I return home, and will be easy to bring with me, since they're so small. I display them in shadowboxes hung in my apartment.
Sylvanian families are really popular here. Not only that, but they have special Japanese sets I'm pretty sure you wouldn't find in other countries... Japanese-style lunch sets, etc. Every time I go to a toy shop, I squee over how stinkin' CUUUUUTE they are! Particularly the little accessories. (My local supermarket is in a big department store with a toy section, and I always make a special trip to the toys to squee over them!)
But... I'm 30 years old. I don't have any kids. I'm running out of places to display stuff. (My apartment is TINY!) But dammit... the Sylvanian stuff is just so CUUUUUUUTE! My boyfriend often offers to buy the sets for me, and I always tell him no, I'm too old for it, what am I gonna do with it, blah blah blah.
Do you think it would be silly of me to start collecting Sylvanian family stuff? I'm mostly interested in the accessories, not so much the actual dolls. (Though the dolls are very cute.) Is it creepy or weird for a grown woman to have such a collection? I find my mystery-box minis to be more of a kitschy, grown-up type thing. The Sylvanian stuff isn't so kitschy, just really stinkin' cute. I know it is silly, but I waaaaaant it! Ha ha.
Halp! Your opinion is appreciated! :) (X-poste
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[08 Sep 2011|12:17am] |
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| Printable ruler for miniaturists, inch=foot |
[12 Feb 2011|10:40pm] |
I made a ruler for miniaturists! Well, I made it for me. It shows the ratio of an inch to a foot, and all the little fractions. It took some fiddling to make it print out full sized, so I wouldn't recommend using it to actually measure something. It's just handy for seeing ratios (like something that's 3/8" in miniature would equal something 4 1/2" in real life.)
Help yourself! And feel free to tweak it too, and share it, and post it elsewhere. I made it because I thought such a thing just OUGHT to exist. (And maybe it already did, somewhere. But it definitely exists now!)
Inch=Foot ruler
x-posted at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=91.7) doll_houses .
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[14 Sep 2010|12:57am] |
Here are some miniatures that I didn't get around to posting a while ago, plus some new acquisitions!
Click to my journal!
   
x-posted at doll_houses .
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| Dollhouse advice needed! |
[23 Aug 2010|06:22pm] |
Hi everyone,
I have a problem. I am 23, and moving out of my parent's house sometime soon...and in the meantime I have acquired an extensive collection of dollhouses. Two I had as a kid but have updated with nice wallpaper, collector furniture, etc. Two more are small 1/16th scale houses. Another one is my big beautiful dream dollhouse I bought a couple years ago and decorated with much love and happiness. Then I have a "turn about house" that is pretty but very awkward in shape, and a couple small room boxes.
The main question now...
WHAT ON EARTH....am I going to do with my beloved lovelies once I move out? They fit in my parent's basement just fine...but in the type of apartment I'm going to be able to afford, there won't be much room. Not to mention possible parties, friends, pets, etc that might bash into them or just simply accidentally break something tiny.
What did ya'll do when you move from place to place? I don't want to pay to put them in storage, and my parents really do want their basement back. And I most of all don't want to sell the pieces since I spent so many years putting together cohesive collections...70s, modern, 40s, edwardian...eek!
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
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