tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86151151892479079862024-03-06T06:44:28.615+11:00Dollshouse DaydreamsAlennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.comBlogger453125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-82418125149182971122016-02-19T10:49:00.002+11:002016-02-19T10:49:47.308+11:00The Workshop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Workshop for the Tower of Magic is now finished. There isn't anything particularly magical about it; in fact the clockwork gears under the table give it more of a steampunk feel than anything. Still, I hope it will blend in well enough when it's put with the other rooms of the ToM.<br />
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In the back corner is an area for woodwork with a wall mounted rack for spare timber from which also hangs a range of tools.<br />
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Next to this is a painting station with a range of paints and brushes stored in a hanging shelf unit.<br />
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On the central table a broken orrery is being repaired.<br />
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The fire in the back corner is largely lost behind everything else in the room.<br />
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And my other current project, the 48th scale Woodnock Cottage, now has thatching on it's roof and is ready to have furniture added inside. (And for an idea of scale, the blue surface you can see under the cottage is the top of the Workshop).<br />
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One of two new projects I've started work upon is yet another room for the Tower of Magic. This is the last of the boxes I've been using for the ToM so unless I can find more to match this might be the last room of the ToM as well. The room is the 'Workshop' where assorted magical devices and contraptions are built.<br />
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The Workshop has an open stone fireplace which can be employed as a forge to heat metals for working. In the corner beside the fire is a stone stair that disappears behind the chimney and provides the illusion of access to the room.<br />
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The furniture in the workshop has been painted in a range of different colours and for a change I actually like how the paints I've chosen are working together.<br />
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While waiting for paint and glue to dry at various stages in the Workshop I filled in time by starting my next Petite Properties kit. It's another 48th scale property and is called 'Woodnock Cottage'.<br />
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Woodnock is another rear open job (I won't remind you again how much I dislike open at the rear houses) but in this case altering it to be front opening wasn't really practical so I've assembled it more or less as the manufacturer intended. I really must be slipping.<br />
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The main room on the ground floor is going to be a country tea room. <br />
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The adjoining room will be the kitchen where the goods on offer in the tea room will be prepared. <br />
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There are also two rooms upstairs. At this point I'm not certain whether these will be an apartment for the operators of the tea room to live in or possibly a more 'commercial' space, say an art gallery selling local landscapes or a shop selling handicrafts?<br />
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One change I did make to the basic kit was to move the internal wall dividing these upstairs rooms across a bit so I get two good sized rooms instead of one huge and one small room.<br />
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Finally I went into the local Post Office the other day and found this child's dollshouse kit reduced to $20 from $90. How could I refuse? It's about 24th scale in size and very nicely finished for a basic child's toy. Now the only question is what to do with it . . . ? Alennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-62677325591471654962016-01-20T12:13:00.000+11:002016-01-20T12:13:20.510+11:00No Ravens Here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The 48th scale house I started as my Christmas project is now finished. It's a kit called "Raven's Perch" by Petite Properties. They intended it as a spooky Halloween sort of a house but I made it into a neatly maintained home. Inside it has seven rooms over four floors.</div>
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Above you can see the basic kit how it is meant to be built. Needless to say, I did not build it this way. The kit is one of those with no back walls with the rear left open for access and viewing (and also for dust and cat paws). I always find houses made this way hard to arrange inside so whenever possible I adapt them to open at the front.<br />
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This is what I did with Raven's Perch. I used foamboard to create solid back walls and glued the front walls and porch together but left them separate from the main structure so they simply lift off. Adapting the roofs was a little more tricky. Like the walls, the two areas of roof were supplied open at the back. For the roof over the main house it was a matter of using a piece of cardboard to create a back roof section which is fixed to the back of the house and then leaving the top and front roof section loose. Some struts made of foamboard glued inside the roof hold the roof in the proper curved shape. This meant that I had to cut the chimney at the roof line so that the bottom of the chimney was affixed to the house but the top was glued to the removable roof section.<br />
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The tower roof also formed the walls of the top room in the tower. At first I thought this would mean I had to fix three sides of the roof in place and leave just the front panel removable so that the room still had walls when it was opened for viewing. What I couldn't figure out was how to hold this one removable piece in place. I solved the problem by using cardboard to add separate walls for the top floor that are fixed to the house and tuning the roof into a cap that sits over the top of these walls and lifts off.<br />
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I don't quite understand how the folks at Petite Properties managed not to put a balcony on top of the porch. To me it just seems like such an obvious thing to do especially at the porch roof was flat. I altered the double window that overlooked this area by extending the frame down to the porch roof so that the window looks like a set of doors and added a railing around the edge of the porch roof to create a balcony. The railing is a piece of lace painted to match the rest of the trim on the house. I would have liked to cut out the railing around the porch and replace it with this lace rail especially as the rails that came with the house were left crooked to add to the spooky abandoned feel the manufacturers were after. I decided attempting this was too dangerous as it was too likely I'd inadvertently damage the posts that hold up the roof/balcony and end up with a right mess. Instead I settled for painting the porch railing the same colour as the floor so they blend in and the crooked bits aren't too noticeable (at least in theory).<br />
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The house is covered in strips of cardboard to simulate weather boards. The roof is clad in shingle look strips made by Petite Properties. Two packs of these strips was the perfect amount to cover both sections of roof on this house.<br />
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Inside, the basic kit had no supplied features aside from the bare chimney breasts. No doors, just open doorways connecting the rooms of the main house to the tower rooms. No stairs to connect the floors, no fire surrounds. There is a trapdoor supplied to access the top tower room, but no ladder.<br />
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The ground floor in the main part of the house has the dining room and entry hall; the two areas being separated by a partition wall. Another wall was added at the back of the dining room with an arch cut into it. This does two things; it stops the room from being too deep and narrow and it gives the impression there is more to the house that you can't see.<br />
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The entry hall area has steps leading up to the next floor. These are another kit from Petite Propeties intended to be used in the Le Petit Palais kit. The hall stand by the stairs is another PP kit and is decorated with tiny umbrellas and felt hats.<br />
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Opening off the hall on the ground floor in the tower section is the kitchen. This is probably my least favourite room in the house as the colours in here are just all wrong. The walls are too neutral and the metallic pink cabinets too powerful against them. I solved the no door problem by adding a simple piece of cardboard to create a faux sliding door.<br />
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The middle floor in the main house holds the living room. Like the dining room I added a faux wall at the back to create a hallway behind the room. Another set of stairs leads up to the top floor from this hallway. <br />
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It took me a while to find a furniture arrangement I liked in here and when I did I forgot one thing. Remember the faux doors that open onto the balcony outside? Well, it you were to walk through those doors you would smack right into the back of the sofa and need to climb over it to get inside. Luckily the sofa is a deep colour that doesn't show looking in through the windows in the door and when the front is removed for viewing you tend not to realise there should be a doorway right there.<br />
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In the tower room on this level is the bathroom. It opens directly off the living room which is . . . not ideal but there was no other place to put the bathroom. I realise now that I should have blocked off the doorway that came with the kit and added a fake door in the back wall so that the bathroom opened off an imaginary hallway rather than the main living space. The bath, toilet and sink in here are all more PP kits. The shower in the corner is simply a piece of curved wire with pleated fabric curtains and another piece of wire looped at the end to make a showerhead (it's there, it's just hidden by the curtain in this photo).<br />
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The top floor of the main house holds the bedroom. Like the two levels below it I added a fake wall at the back of the room, this time to block off the sloped roof at the back and instead have a straight rear wall. A rather unconvincing fake door connects this room to the rest of the house. Due to the supports inside the removable roof I couldn't add too much furniture at the front of the room or it would be pushed askew every time the roof was put in place.<br />
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The bed is a round jewellery finding that was cut in two to create a head and a foot which were connected by a piece of balsa wood.</div>
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Opening off the bedroom in the tower is the dressing room. This room definitely needs a little something more but at this point I haven't thought what I might successfully do in such a small scale. In the back corner is a balsa wood ladder leading up to the top room in the tower.<br />
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Up in the very top of the tower is a small study with a desk and chaise. The desk is a little like the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid, larger than the only doorway it had to come in through. Maybe like the sarcophagus, the house was built around the desk? Even the chaise would have been difficult to get up through that trapdoor.</div>
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You may have noticed a couple of rooms have people in them. These are cheap 'O' scale model railway people. They work reasonably well in 48th scale but have a couple of drawbacks. Firstly, being cheap they're pretty badly painted but that's easy to improve although I wouldn't claim to be able to get them perfect. Secondly, they're all dressed for the outdoors. They wear overcoats, the women clutch their purses and so forth and they really don't look right inside. Finally, they're all fixed in a set pose which makes it that bit harder to make them look at home.</div>
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So there you have it, my version of Raven's Perch which is decidedly minus the Ravens.</div>
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Starting in August I worked on this 24th scale house. The house itself is two cardboard storage boxes joined together to create one large five floored town house.<br />
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It is the residence of a doctor whose surgery occupies the main floor.<br />
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Like all houses, this one did not turn out the way it was initially intended to. The bedroom for example isn't really quite right for a respectable Victorian gent - it's too lacey but I like it too much as it is to redo it.<br />
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The attic holds what is probably everyone's favourite room of the house, the doctor's research lab.<br />
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Next I dropped down to 48th scale to fill this recessed frame with ten little boxes each containing a separate room or scene.<br />
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One of the first rooms finished for this project was the Roman dining room complete with chaises for the diners to recline upon while they eat.<br />
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The Art Deco room features some furniture kits from Petite Properties (the couch, chair and fireplace). This was one of those rooms I just couldn't layout nicely. I also apparently never managed to get a really good photo of it.<br />
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The Arabian room features (printed) tiles and lots of cushions (which are little squares of felt).<br />
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The modern kitchen is dwarfed by the really huge cake on the counter. <br />
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The Japanese room is simple and uncluttered.<br />
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The double height hallway uses pieces of bamboo fan blades to create a carved railing and the tops of fancy toothpicks for staircase spindles (too bad they're so crooked).<br />
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The Greek balcony has a stunning view and lots of potted colour.<br />
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The bedroom uses up left overs from when I did Le Petit Palais.<br />
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Finally, the garden room or conservatory is filled with colourful plants featuring flowersoft flowers.<br />
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Put together, the ten boxes (or nine rooms) look like this. The best thing about this project is that the finished item hangs on the wall; no need to find shelf space for it.<br />
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By now it was December and not wanting to start anything major until after Christmas I worked on two 12th scale vignettes. The first of which was this wizard's table laden with magical supplies and paraphernalia.<br />
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The second vignette was one of those things that refused to work out right. It was initially supposed an empty sofa with a very colourful highly patterned upholstery. This looked terrible so I substituted this sofa which then looked too empty so hastily dressed and added a lady to lounge upon it. I don't really know if I like the end result or not.<br />
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Finally for the year was my project over the Christmas break. It's the Petite Properties kit "Raven's Perch" in 48th scale. Needless to say I haven't quite built it as the instructions say to but I'll tell you all about this project in detail in the next post.Alennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-67122274131098870872015-12-15T13:49:00.000+11:002015-12-15T13:49:46.662+11:002015 In Review . . . Part OneWith another year almost gone, it's time yet again to start looking back at the projects I've completed in the past twelve months.<br />
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First for 2015 was the Sitting Room for the Tower of Magic. It is absolutely not my favourite room in the ToM, but one way or another most of them do end up disappointing me.<br />
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My favourite part of this room is probably the grate in the fireplace. It was made from plastic fence railing and wire mesh with red and black beads for coals and embers. I think the effect is quite good.<br />
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My next project of the year was Pumpkin Cottage from the 48th scale kit by Petite Properties. It was one of those kits I just knew I had to have the moment I first saw it. The one thing I don't like about it is that it's one of those kits that's just open at the back. I find this arrangement makes it harder to get the inside layout right and let's face it who wants to have to dust inside a 48th scale house on a regular basis?<br />
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Inside, the cottage has one large room per floor connected by a rather clever staircase (so clever in fact that I copied the idea for Orchid House later in the year!). Downstairs is the kitchen and living space.<br />
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Upstairs is the bedroom. I was going to put twin beds in here but sadly that meant that the bed closest to the fireplace actually ended up with it's covers poking into the fire - it looked entirely unsafe and thus unrealistic.<br />
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As much as I like the way Pumpkin Cottage turned out I wouldn't mind doing it again, this time totally differently . . . and I understand Petite Properties have now released this kit in the larger 24th scale version as well . . . .<br />
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Another 48th scale project came next, this time it was a castle (yes, yet another castle). It is open to view on both sides with a solid front and back. I'm not too sure I like this design as it means you can never see the whole inside at once and makes it feel a little like two castles instead of a cohesive whole.<br />
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On the other hand I really do like how the insides turned out. Working in 48th scale meant I had more room to use for features that I just couldn't have squeezed into my earlier (12th scale) castles. I finally got an opening to a secret passage (even if it doesn't lead anywhere) a dungeon and a fancy vaulted ceiling to name a few.<br />
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From the outside though I'm not so pleased. It looks OK but it just doesn't really say castle does it? I should perhaps have added more towers and turrets but even in 48th scale there is only so much room and the more complex the structure the more likely I'll make an even bigger mess of it.<br />
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Still, I learned a few things for the next castle, the next one will be better . . . . What, you didn't think four castles was enough did you?<br />
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The castle is the only 48th scale property I've done to date with 'people' in it. The people are hand made from polymer clay and as no one seems to make moulds for 48th scale people they look only vaguely human. Next time I want people in 48th scale I'll try some O scale model railway people and see which sort of person I like best.<br />
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After the castle came the bathroom for the ToM. It's the final reason why I gave up on the ToM for a while. It's all right I guess - the problem is that it looked all so much better in my head.<br />
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Alongside the ToM bathroom I worked on Orchid House using the 'Orchid' kit from Greenleaf. This was my first plywood house kit and I suspect my last. I found the plywood, well, annoying really. It splintered and/or cracked (always in precisely the worst spot), it sagged, it warped, and was generally impossible to finish nicely. Also, given my dislike of rear opening houses I adapted this kit to open from the front and to be a sealed unit which is a lot of work when you consider there is no reason the manufacturer couldn't make it the <i><u>right</u> </i>way in the first place if only they would go to the expense of supplying a solid back wall and roof. It really makes me feel sorry for people in the US where almost all dollshouse kits are made this way.<br />
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Inside, beams help stop the plywood ceiling/upper floor from sagging. This piece of plywood was already bowed (i.e. sagging) when I built the house and by installing it upside down I have the rather unusual problem of a ceiling that sags slightly upwards. The one redeeming feature of the plywood was that it was easy to cut extra door holes in the end wall to create access to the staircase I added at the side of the house.<br />
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For the most part, I worked on this house with the intention of using up as much as the old furniture I had laying about the place. I did a reasonably good job of this but was surprised how little would fit into the house. Even leaving out the internal walls and adding an annex for the stairs to maximize the floor area I still couldn't fit in as much as I had initially expected and then of course I spent weeks trying to decide how to arrange it nicely.<br />
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There is still more to come from 2015 in Part Two including some current projects I've not shown you yet.Alennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-23633471692513852842015-12-07T14:45:00.001+11:002015-12-07T14:45:12.703+11:00Larger Boxes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Next in the ongoing campaign to use up the various boxes and containers I've collected because I'll put <i>some</i> miniature scene in them <i>someday</i> is this little vignette of a wizard's work table in a white wall display shelf.<br />
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I do have to apologise for the poor lighting in these photos. It is summer in Tasmania so of course we haven't had a sunny day (thus good light for photos) in ages, at least not when I've been home to take advantage of it in photos. I'll try and get some better lit photos to show you soon.<br />
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The vignette consists of of a long table laden with wizardly essentials and some similarly laden long wall mounted shelves overhead. I'll point out all the details when I manage to get a photo in which they can actually be seen. For now I'm afraid you'll just have to squint and see what you can find.<br />
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In the matching box to the wizard's table I've started on something completely different. This vignette has a padded back wall and features a sofa with gold brocade upholstery. I'm not too sure about the white cushions though . . . I do think I might add an arched front panel like this one to the wizard's vignette.<br />
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These plum coloured crushed velvet curtains will sit inside the arched front panel, they just need more time to dry first.<br />
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Do you remember the Oriental Folly from a few years ago? This is what it looked like back when it was first finished.</div>
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And this is what it looked like last week after a few years of being in the same house as a couple of cats. The paint of the roof had been scratched when they took flying leaps across the room to land on top of it, the front had been pushed off and after the first few times it hit the floor rather badly smashed. Inside, the furniture had been pushed aside or broken when some lovable feline decided to curl up inside the house.<br />
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A little TLC later and the Folly again looks like this. This time there are hooks holding the front firmly closed which should at least slow down the rate of damage in future. I won't guarantee that though!<br />
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All nine of the 48th scale room boxes are now complete. In no particular order, the nine rooms are:<br />
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Room one is an Art Deco themed room. This room features a fireplace and sofa and chair from kits by Petite Properties. The side tables are metal beads/tubes with the top opening filled.<br />
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Room two is an Arabian themed room. It has hanging filigree bead lanterns. <br />
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The 'palm' leaves started solid leaves. I snipped parallel cuts into the leaves on both sides of the central wire to create palm like look.<br />
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Room three is a modern kitchen. It has a central island with breakfast bar.<br />
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A simple table and chairs were made from balsa wood.<br />
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All the cupboards and cabinets are solid balsa wood with pieces of card glued in place to create the illusion of doors and drawers. All the knobs are blobs of gold faux lead lighting outliner.<br />
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Room four is a Japanese themed room. <br />
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The recessed shelves hold a bonsai made with brown wire and a little lichen moss.<br />
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Room five is a Victorian style hallway. If you've been wondering why the post title is "Ten Boxes" but there are only nine rooms, it's because I joined two boxes together to create this double height room.<br />
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Mirco beads in red and black make the coals in the fireplace.<br />
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The bookshelves under the stairs swing open to reveal a hidden door.<br />
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Room six is not a room at all but an outdoor balcony overlooking a view of Santorini in Greece.<br />
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Beads have been used as pots and filled with colourful flowering plants.<br />
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The table is made from jewellery findings with a felt umbrella while the chairs are wire bent into a chair frame shape and planks of balsa wood attached as seats and backs.<br />
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Room seven is a conservatory or garden room, again with lots of flowering plants.<br />
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The central French doors are from a Petite Properties kit (leftover from Le Petit Palais) while the windows are balsa wood surrounds with faux leadlighting outliner drawn onto clear acetate to create the panes.<br />
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The plants are all lichen moss with flowersoft flowers in either bead or balsa wood pots.<br />
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Room eight you've seen before as it was the second room to be finished. It's the Roman dining room.<br />
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Finally, room nine is another you've seen and the very first of these rooms to be made. The Georgian bedroom was made largely with left overs from Le Petit Palais.<br />
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The 24th scale house is now finished. Overall, the house has eight rooms over five floors.<br />
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On the top floor is the Lab where the resident doctor can conduct scientific tests. <br />
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The room is filled with reference texts and storage for various chemicals.<br />
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And on the subject of rooms that don't work out quite right there is this 'masculine' bedroom. The only thing about this room that looks right for a bloke's room is the furniture. Everything else is entirely to floral and lacey for a man. I could change the feel of this room quite easily by changing the wallpaper and bed coverings but I do quite like it as it is. It's just too bad it's nothing like it was supposed to be . . . .</div>
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Next door to the bedroom is the hallway where the maid is busy with a red feather duster cleaning the stair rails.<br />
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Working in 24th scale, 12th scale tester Harry hasn't had much work to do lately. He got tired of just sitting on the shelf and decided to try out the bed, but just couldn't get comfortable.<br />
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Down another floor is the sitting room which also doubles as a music room as evidenced by the cello and upright piano.<br />
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On the ground floor is the doctor's surgery (or consulting room, office, etc).<br />
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The doctor is busy with a patient . . .<br />
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While another patient waits in the hallway next door.<br />
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Then Harry interrupted the consultation to complain about the cramped accommodations.<br />
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Finally, on the ground floor is the kitchen. Here the cook is busy making a pie for the evening meal.<br />
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Remember way, way back when I started the 24th scale house I also started on a couple of 48th scale roomboxes? I had left the Roman dining room unfinished as it seemed silly to pull out the polymer clay just to make a few dished that could all sit on my thumbnail. When I finally reached the stage of making clay goodies for the 24th scale house, I also made those last few additions for this room as well. The central table is now filled with a selection of rather unconvincing foodstuffs.<br />
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And poor Harry still can't find a comfy spot to stretch out. Unfortunately for Harry my next task is to create seven more rooms like this one to fill up the small display unit so that I can finally get it and all ten little boxes out from underfoot.<br />
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With the furniture (mostly) finished, I've been adding accessories to the 24th scale house this week.<br />
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In the scullery, the dresser is now filled with linens while more are hung up to dry on the drying rack.<br />
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There are an assortment of odds and ends in the kitchen from plates and platters to cannisters and the odd bit of food.<br />
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The entry hall is still fairly bland and empty at the moment though. The red chair in the photo is not staying there it just one of those pieces I made especially for this house (the lab on the top floor to be precise) before coming to the decision that it just won't fit in.<br />
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In the surgery, the cabinet has been filled with books but not a lot else has been added.<br />
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The sitting room furniture has moved about again and a couple of small ornaments added.<br />
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The upstairs hall is another quite bland space in need of some pictures on the walls and maybe a vase of flowers on the desk.<br />
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Now the bedroom . . . It really does not look like a man's room does it. Between the lacey wallpaper and floral sheet on the bed it has a definite feminine feel. Despite the fact that it was supposed to be a masculine room, I'm quite happy with how this room is shaping up at the moment.<br />
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Not so happy with the bathroom. My idea to coat carved blocks of balsa wood in pollyfiller to create the bath, sink and loo worked quite well. When it came time to paint it I discovered I had absolutely no white paint left (dirty off-white yes, but that would look terrible as a bathroom suite). So rather than but more paint and wait a week or two for it to arrive in the mail I went for plan B and painted the suite forest green instead. I can't quite decide whether the colour works or not but as it will be so hard to cover with white, green it is going to stay.<br />
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The final room is the lab. As you can see, there is absolutely no room for that red chair. There is lots of space to store books and scientific equipment and supplies.<br />
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On the central table a green liquid is being distilled to create a blue liquid. The rug on the floor is a cut out from an old dollshouse magazine.<br />
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There is still a lot to be added to this house but at last it is finally starting to look like I might actually be in sight of finishing it.Alennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-40422662878641358372015-10-15T13:02:00.002+11:002015-10-15T13:02:39.071+11:00A Few Sticks of Furniture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lately, I've been focussing on filling the 24th scale house with furniture. The kitchen has the usual shelves and tables all made of balsa wood and painted in a dark blue. I've also made a basic range oven and fitted it into the recess at the rear of the kitchen.<br />
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The raised area on the right of the kitchen has become a scullery/laundry area with a balsa wood sink on the back wall. At the front of the space is a airing rack made by impaling sewing pins through balsa wood dowels. Between sink and rack is a shelf unit made from a kit.<br />
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Above the kitchen is the Entry Hall which is now home to a small corner table, a narrow seat and a hall stand, all finished in tones of brown.<br />
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Next door is the doctor's surgery/consulting room. Most of the items in here are pre bought furniture with the obvious exceptions of the unfinished screen and desk which have been hand made from balsa wood.<br />
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Up yet another floor is the sitting room. The pre bought suite in here has been augmented by a upright piano and secretary desk, both in balsa.<br />
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Next up is the bedroom. As usual I intended to have the bed head on the back wall but ultimately came to the conclusion that the layout worked so much better with the bed on the side wall. This was meant to be a masculine bedroom but the lacey wallpaper gave it a decidedly girly vibe so the furniture was painted in a very dark brown to try to counter this.<br />
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On the top floor, I have a cunning plan for the bathroom fittings. Last time I bought a 24th scale bath set (bath tub, sink and loo) the bath tub was quite clearly too small and out of scale. As all the other set's I've seen look to have the same problem I decided to save some money and make my own. Above you can see the first stage of this process which is to carve a rough shape out of balsa wood for each item. After taking the photo I coated each piece in pollyfiller. I am now in the process of sanding this smooth to (hopefully) create a smooth porcelain effect.<br />
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I've been busy working on the outside of my 24th scale house so that it no longer looks like two cardboard boxes stacked on top of each other and instead actually looks like a smart house. The basement and 'street' level of the exterior walls are clad with stone 'blocks' of EVA foam (same as the 48th scale castle was earlier in the year). The upper walls were intended to be a dove grey but came out distinctly lavender grey instead.<br />
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Inside, I've moved the wall separating the stair/hall from the rooms across about a centimetre which means that the stairs no longer look so confined. The stairs themselves have been carpeted with either woven ribbon or velvet ribbon. <br />
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Another change is that the chimney breasts have been removed from all the rooms. I decided that they took up too much space in the rooms and given the way the fireplace kits I bought are assembled they're not really necessary anyway. Another reason for removing the breasts is that once I started playing with furniture I decided the fires would be better on the back walls than the side walls where I originally had them. That's this week anyway . . . by next week the fires will probably be back on the side walls again.<br />
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In addition to the furniture I've bought for this house, I have made a start on making my own. If the seat of this chaise were about half as wide it would work quite well in the entry hall where is was designed to go. I also don't like the two different greens (stair carpet and chaise) in such proximity. So most likely I will use this chaise elsewhere and make a new one for the entry.<br />
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I have to apologise for the first couple of photos in this post. They are not supposed to be sideways but have a stubborn determination to be displayed that way. The first photo shows the to lower floors of the house while the second shows the remaining upper floors.<br />
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With all the internal walls in place, this house has now reached the point where I've come to the conclusion that I really do not like it. The problem is the stairs. The stair/hallways are too narrow and claustrophobic looking and the stairs too dark and dominating. I am hoping that adding a carpet runner to the stairs and adding white rails will solve the second problem but fear they will only make the first problem worse. Technically given the era I'm planning for the house I should also add a picture rail along the upper walls which should make the ceiling look lower and therefore the hallways should look wider in comparison. So maybe it will turn out OK in the end. Maybe.<br />
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Even on this level where the stairs are separated from the main room by an open divider rather than a solid wall, the stair area still looks too cramped. I am quite pleased with the room divider itself though I'm not to sure if white is the right colour for it. Perhaps it should be a little darker, say a beige or light brown?<br />
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Most of the furniture for this house will be hand made, but I cheated and got a head start on the furnishings by buying some ready made which arrived in the mail a couple of days ago. I had planned to recover the sofa and chairs but surprisingly the blue and white fabric seems to work quite well in this room and it makes the white of the room divider look more at home too. It's starting to look just a little like maybe I do know what I'm doing after all.<br />
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On paper, there was oodles of space in each room to fit in everything I wanted to and then some more as well. As usual, reality has proved to be more cramped (hence my dislike of the stairs). The furniture in this room (which won't be staying where it is) shows it is a very good size for a dining room . . . too bad this room is supposed to be a doctors surgery/office. If the desk is about the size of the dining table and I try to squeeze in an exam table behind a privacy screen, a shelf of medical texts, a chair for the patients to sit as well a various other items that should be found in a surgery . . . . well it may all fit in, but I don't think I'm going to be able to arrange everything in a layout that is really going to work. I guess we'll find out soon enough.<br />
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Now these few pieces of 24th scale furniture came from Lorraine at <a href="http://fairymeadowminiatures.com.au/index.php?sef_rewrite=1">Fairy Meadow Miniatures</a> in Sydney. In addition to what I ordered, just look at what else this wonderful person sent me as a free gift:<br />
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All I can say is Wow. And of course a very huge Thank You to Lorraine. I think I've filled entire houses with less than this. Many items are of course broken or damaged, but just as many seem to be in pristine condition. I haven't done anything to deserve this generosity (no Lorraine, sharing photos of my miniatures does not qualify) so I would like to ask everyone to at least pay a visit to her store's website at <a href="http://fairymeadowminiatures.com.au/">http://fairymeadowminiatures.com.au/</a> and browse through some of the lovely miniatures there.<br />
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There were so many wonderful things in this parcel. I love the colour of the rug, a sort of burgundy purple, there is a gorgeous little lace fan, but my favourite has to be these round bookcases. I tried to make something similar once, but gave it up when it didn't work out. I am definitely going to have a lot of fun thinking up ways to use all these wonderful items.Alennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-55501751071877439882015-08-26T12:05:00.000+10:002015-08-26T12:05:23.904+10:00Romans and Room Dividers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The 48th scale Roman dining room is now furnished. It has three wooden chaises arranged in a 'u' around a central table. Romans would dine reclining on chaises quite similar to mine so they must have been more comfortable than they look. In the Mediterranean climate, piling them with cushions would probably have made them too hot so I've added a single cushion of maroon felt to each chaise just for a little colour and interest. The room is still missing some food and drink. I will make this from polymer clay next time I have the clay out for something else as it doesn't seem worth the effort to pull the clay out just to make a few things to sit on a table less than an inch in diameter.<br />
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The 24th scale town house is looking a great deal less polished than the Roman room. Most of the levels in the house have had flooring installed. The exception is the third or middle level. This is because I haven't quite decided where I want to divide the rooms on this level and I naturally want to try and hide the join in the flooring under this divide.<br />
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The rooms on this level won't be divided by a solid wall though. I took some 12th scale plastic fence railing, cut it into pieces, re-arranged them and glued them back together between strips of balsa wood to create this room divider:<br />
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Now I just need to decide whether it should be dividing the room so that it leaves a narrow passage along the stairs and a large single room space on the floor or if it should be positioned more centrally to create two even areas.<br />
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In the basement, the kitchen floor has been started using polyfiller to create a stone effect. It still needs a few more layers of paint at this point. Some plastic coated cardboard tiles line the recess for the range/oven. The right side of the room has been raised up a couple of steps just to add a little interest to the space and to make it really hard for me to get paint down to the narrow bit at the back and no doubt to make it hard to get the furniture to work in the space later on. That is of course despite the fact the furniture will be custom made for the space.<br />
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When I finish one project I always have ideas lined up for the next project. . . . . Okay, for the next half dozen or so projects. This time however I wanted to hold off on starting something new in order to firstly clean and tidy my workspace and secondly to find a use for the various containers I've collected on the basis they will make a great case for a miniature scene someday. I have boxes, small shelf cubes, a glass lantern and sundry other items that I still don't know exactly what I want to put in them but I've been tripping over them too long to leave them hanging about empty.<br />
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Amongst those containers are this framed white display shelf and a stack of cardboard boxes just the right size for a 48th scale room. I figured out that if I knock the shelves out of the unit I can stack ten of the boxes into the unit. So the plan I've come up with is to make ten roomboxes, each with a different theme to display in the unit. This will get rid of both display unit and boxes. The catch is that I don't have ideas for all ten rooms yet and probably won't fill all ten boxes straight away but rather work on them gradually between doing other things so the unit and boxes will still be hanging about for a while yet.<br />
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Not knowing what to do for all ten boxes doesn't mean that I haven't made a start on a couple of them. The first box now holds this Georgian style bedroom with canopied bed, dressing table and chaise. If you're thinking that it all looks a little like the rooms in Le Petit Palais then you would be right as the room is decorated with papers and other items left over from that project.<br />
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The second box is going to be something completely different. This box isn't furnished yet, but it will be a Roman dining room with chaises for the diners to recline on while they sip their wine and eat whatever it was Romans ate that is easy to recreate in 48th scale. I still need to do a little research before finishing this one. The remaining eight boxes will be set in similarly different times and places.<br />
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I also had on hand a pair of flat packed cardboard storage boxes that I had hoped would hold old dollshouse magazines but the boxes were a little large to suit that purpose. Now they have a new purpose. By sticking one atop the other and adding foamboard floors inside I now have a five floor 24th scale town house. This is actually a case of two birds and one stone as I wanted to find a use for the boxes and a 24th scale town house was already on my list of future projects. It's going to be set around 1860 and it will be the home of a doctor. From the bottom up the floors will hold: a kitchen, the main entry and surgery/consulting room, a living space or reception room, the bedroom and up in the attic will be a bathroom and either a private office or a small medical lab.<br />
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This still leaves me with a lantern, two display cubes and possibly a few more boxes to find uses for . . . . . . . .Alennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-45539087383031369542015-08-05T14:35:00.003+10:002015-08-05T14:35:51.012+10:00Orchid Cottage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Orchid Cottage is now finished. Well, finished-ish. There are a few things I'd still like to do such as find a trim to add to the bottom of the two small dormers as there is actually a gap between the front of the dormers and the roof tiles below. Sadly nothing I've tried looks quite right, so for the time being they will remain as they are.<br />
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Each of the two levels inside consists of a single large room. The kit is designed to have two rooms per floor and an internal staircase occupying part of the rooms. I found that I kept running out of space working without the dividing walls and moving the stairs into an annex on the side.<br />
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Despite the lack of internal walls, each floor has two separate areas. Upstairs has a sitting area and a sleeping area in the bedroom. The sitting end of the room consists of a cosy chair by the fire beside which is an embroidery table. The wash stand also inhabits this area.<br />
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The other end of the room holds the bed with little space left for anything else.<br />
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Downstairs the two areas are the kitchen and the living area. These two areas are squeezed in quite tightly. Each has exactly fifty percent of the floor area but each really needs at least sixty percent before they could have a really pleasing layout. The living area in particular does not please me but there is simply no better way to fit everything in (and you'd better believe I have tried every single possible way).<br />
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I might have done better to make or buy furniture specifically for the house instead of using so many items from my stash, but you see the whole point of buying the house was to use up some of the furniture from my stash and get it out of the cupboard. This, and the fact I doubt I'd have had any more success with custom made furniture, is why I stuck with what I had.<br />
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Ethel, the lady of the house is a cheap porcelain doll re-dressed in a plum coloured cotton dress.<br />
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My Orchid Cottage looks quite close to the basic Orchid kit despite all the changes I made. The kit is supposed to be open at the back, mine opens at the front. I blocked off all the side windows as they just messed up any possible interior layout. The other major change I made was to add the staircase annex on the left side of the building.<br />
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Firstly, I'd like to remind all of you who choose to leave comments on my blog that Blogger will not let me respond to them directly (nor leave comments on your blogs). This is why I will occasionally start a blog post by responding to a comment. When I fail to make any response to a comment, it is usually because I've forgotten that I intend to do so by the time I get around to writing the post. If anyone ever does ask a question and not get a response, please just keep asking and jogging my memory until you do. I do appreciate comments even if my inability to respond to them directly leads to my forgetting to do so.<br />
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In response to Rosie's comment on the Tower of Magic page: No, I don't know any other miniaturists in Launceston. There is at least one group/club out there as the Examiner once published a photo of a little vignette made at a group workshop, but it had only a one sentence caption and did not include any contact details for the group. I googled them at the time, but got no results. There is the 'Miniature Enthusiasts of Tasmania' based in Hobart and they may know of groups or people based in Launceston if you ask. The only contact point for them on the web seems to be their facebook page here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Miniature-Enthusiasts-of-Tasmania-Inc/475351902532998">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Miniature-Enthusiasts-of-Tasmania-Inc/475351902532998</a>. <a href="http://www.laracopper.com/contact-us.html">Lara Copper</a>, who make full size and miniature pots and kitchenware, are based in Launceston and may know about local groups and individuals if you ask them (especially if you buy something too!).<br />
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In the ToM bathroom, I've added a shiny gold . . . . thingy to the ceiling. It's not a chandelier as there are no provision for candles or light bulbs on it. It does however fill in the bland empty spot that was there before. It's made from five large filigree flower shaped findings bent to a slight curve and tied together with gold wire.<br />
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With this addition in place I'm calling the Bathroom finished. Am I happy with it? Of course not. I should never have reduced the size of the bath tub. Yes it was too large for the space, but now the mermaid looks like she doesn't have anywhere near enough room to splash about in. The colours are wrong. If I weren't so lazy I might have repainted the furniture in a different colour, perhaps a deep purple like the mermaid's tail?<br />
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Whatever my overall opinion of the room, there are some elements of the room that do work. No one will ever confuse my stove with one of the versions made by the likes of Reutter Porcelain, but for something that cost less than a tenth the price of a Reutter stove I think it is highly effective.</div>
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By now you've probably noticed that I like doing girly dressing tables with lots of sparkly pots and treasures with this one being a fine example of my style in this area.<br />
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Last week I did promise to show you Orchid Cottage totally finished. Unfortunately, it's not quite there yet and still needs a few small tweaks before it's ready to be revealed. I'll show it to you next time and until then I'll leave you with this sneak peek at the front porch.</div>
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I've continued to add details to Orchid Cottage this week. Some of the furniture has moved about or simply been added or removed and I think I've finally gotten it right. Probably.<br />
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The floral throw across the foot of the bed was all wrong so I've replaced it with some velveteen in purple and wine with a little lace trim and I like the bed much better because of it. I've added a storage chest at the foot of the bed and added some faux cupboard doors which access some imaginary storage under the eaves of the roof.<br />
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I've dressed up the top of the chest of drawers with some typical dressing table items.<br />
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Downstairs, the sofa is now at the front of the room and the dining table at the back. This looks more pleasing than having the two tables right at the front but makes it hard for the resident to sit and gaze out the front window. The back of the sofa was quite bland so I added interest with a panel of fabric and recovered the rest of the sofa in the same fabric. <br />
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On the back wall the wrinkled wallpaper has been covered up with this large framed picture. The table holds a floral arrangement but still needs a little something more - perhaps a lacy doily under the flowers. I don't want to totally cover up the wooden top, but at the moment it's a little too bare.<br />
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The ToM Bathroom now has all the features that are part of the plan for the room but it's still lacking something. I tried sitting the partly made canopy back in place, but that still looks wrong. Perhaps a canopy with thinner, more delicate supporting posts or perhaps some sort of large chandelier hung overhead. Overall, I think it's time to give up adding rooms to the ToM, they rarely co-operate and it's just as rare if I actually whole heartedly like the end result.Alennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-64654120440397533622015-07-15T12:54:00.000+10:002015-07-15T12:54:38.193+10:00Moving Around<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just once, it would be nice to have a house where everything just fell into place; where the vision in mind just worked out in reality exactly as intended. Sadly, Orchid Cottage definitely is not the one. The furniture has been moved around in here dozens of times and I still haven't managed to get it right.<br />
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Upstairs in the bedroom there is currently a bed, a chest of drawers that will double as a dressing table, a writing table and chair and an armchair and embroidery table by the fire. The hip tub and washstand I wanted to have in here are currently shuffled out. The problem I have with this space is it just looks awkward, crowded and confused no matter how I lay it out.<br />
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The other issue is in the fabrics I've used. They are different for every piece of furniture with clashing patterns. I did this to try something different from my usual style but it is pretty clear why I have a usual style that does not involve mixing patterns. Although I think the geometric purple fabric on the pillows and top of the bed actually work rather well, the large floral fabric across the foot is just wrong. I'm not sure if it's the pattern I don't like or if I just need to use a darker coloured fabric to anchor it more. And the everything different look - some people can pull it off and make a room look really good done that way. I am not one of them.<br />
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One piece of furniture that has been made and installed and will not move (I hope) is the kitchen range. This was made from balsa wood, toothpicks, scraps of cardboard and some beads. As you can see above, it was made in two sections but I still had trouble wiggling the finished pieces into the hole in the wall created to accommodate it.<br />
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It was made using images of Victorian era ranges as a guide and includes a water tank for hot water on the left. A yellow bucket hangs from the tap used to release the water. Beside the water tank is a grate where coal (beads) are burning to create the heat with a hotplate above. All down the right side are enclosed ovens. Along the wall beside the range is a filled dresser and an icebox. I think the ice box could use some decals or other decoration to liven it up a touch.<br />
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Originally, I intended to have just the round table in the room to double as a kitchen workspace and dining table, but at some point in my indecisive re-arranging I decided to add a second table for the kitchen and reserve the round table for dining. The kitchen work table was quickly knocked together using balsa wood and some turned posts. I like the kitchen half of the room with this new table but the living half of the room is still wrong.<br />
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Again, the fabrics used on the sofa aren't working but mostly the layout of the furniture just doesn't look right. I'm thinking I might put in a fireplace somewhere are this end of the room but I want to be sure I like how the furniture will be laid out before I do anything so permanent.<br />
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In the ToM bathroom, I've finally filled the bath tub and because it is the Tower of <i>Magic </i>I decided to add a mermaid<br />
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Her top half is a cheap porcelain ballerina doll whose legs were chopped off while her tail is a cone of purple fabric stuffed with fill and a length of wire to make the tail bendable. Purple fantasy film was used to create the fin at the end of her tail. The tub is filled with glass marbles. Over the marbles is a layer of Scenic Water treated to create the effect of bubbles. I make these bubbles by firstly putting some detergent in a jar with a little water and shaking vigorously to make foam. The foam is left to stand while I heat and melt the Scenic Water. The water in the jar will collect in the bottom once it's been standing for a while and the water can then be tipped out leaving just the foam behind. I then add some melted Scenic Water to the jar and shake again so the Scenic Water coats the bubbly foam. This was then spooned out into the tub and squirted into the harder to reach places with a large nosed syringe. <br />
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Before doing this I reduced the size of the tub as I had reached the conclusion what I had was too big for the space. Unfortunately, what I left myself with now looks far too puny. So I'm going back to plan A . . .<br />
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. . . Which was to have a step around the bottom of the tub. This is the original step cut for the larger tub so it needs to be reduced a little as well. And now I'm wondering if I should bring the over-tub canopy back again too . . . .<br />
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Finally, a few weeks ago I complained about the size of a 12th scale hip tub I'd bought online. To further illustrate this complaint, here is the new tub beside the larger 12th scale tub I've had for years. These were both sold as 12th scale, yet they are totally different sizes. Even in the 'big' tub it would be hard for an adult to fit themselves and some water in at the same time, the the 'little' tub, no chance. If you are in the market for a hip tub like this, please be very careful to check exactly what size it is even if it is sold as 12th scale!Alennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-33502960905351941932015-07-01T11:00:00.001+10:002015-07-01T11:00:30.638+10:00Sparkly Things<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week I added a lot of the accessories for the ToM bathroom.<br />
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The cupboard has been filled with spare towels and bottles of soaps and other supplies.<br />
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The dressing table is loaded with bottles of perfumes and unguents, a bowl of assorted jewellery and some candles for extra lighting.<br />
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There are more sparkly bottles by the sink and a raised soap dish that brings the soap up to the level of the top of the sink.<br />
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The canopy over the bath has gone; it just wasn't going to work in the space. I may replace it with a large chandelier or some such hanging over the tub.<br />
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In the back corner the toilet has been finished off with a chain and a roll of loo paper. This room now just needs the bath finishing off and a few people and accessories adding.<br />
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Over at Orchid Cottage I've started working inside and have the floors, walls and ceilings covered.<br />
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Upstairs, the walls are 'papered' with a pretty floral fabric. The floor is covered with a shiny floor board look paper. It doesn't look as authentic as a real wooden floor would, but something I've noticed about the way I decorate is that there is very little visible floor left at the end - so why fuss over what you'll not see anyway?<br />
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The ceiling beams downstairs are my solution to prevent the ceiling from sagging without an internal wall to support it. The floor is paper again, this time in a parquet pattern.<br />
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The walls are covered in a green stripe paper topped with a balsa wood plate shelf. The furniture will be refinished in a different colour.Alennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-7352980484241910152015-06-24T11:13:00.003+10:002015-06-24T11:13:51.008+10:00Almost Moving Indoors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another week and still the outside of Orchid Cottage is not quite finished. It took an entire day just to sand all the bits of gingerbread trim for the house (and I'm not even using all the bits that come with the house). This wouldn't be so much of a complaint if the horrid ply wood bits were anywhere near smooth after all that. Sadly, the ply wood edges are still rough but trying to sand them until they are smooth just makes them disintegrate (and even then they're still not really smooth anyway).<br />
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Eventually there is nothing to do but give up, paint the stuff and stick it in place. The problem with doing this is the rough surface doesn't take the paint well and if you poke the photos to enlarge them you can see dozens of spots (including the wooden roof) where the paint still needs to be touched up in the rough areas. The good news is that once I manage to jab paint into all these spots and add some extra trim to tidy the edges of the roof, the construction of the outside will be finished.<br />
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I used clear plastic to glaze the windows rather than the horrible printed windows that came with the kit. Most of theses were printed crookedly, or unevenly and in any event simply did not look 'real'. Once I remember to buy some more outliner, I will add a stained glass look to at least the large octagonal window above the front door.<br />
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With all the sanding and painting for Orchid Cottage and resisting the urge to throw the whole thing through the window not much happened in the ToM bathroom this week. I did pin the fabric for the canopy over the bath into place, but I'm not sure I really like it at all. I might make another tub without anything overhead and compare the two to see which looks best in the space. Perhaps a more oval shaped tub would look better in the space too . . . .Alennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-32835946051603510192015-06-17T12:22:00.001+10:002015-06-17T12:22:46.338+10:00Walls, Roofs and Tubs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Most of the past few weeks I've been working on the exterior of Orchid Cottage. The walls are clad in balsa wood weather boards painted in lavender grey and for the roof I used the wooden shingles that came with the kit.<br />
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Surpriseingly, the kit came complete with enough shingles not only to cover the roof that came with the kit, but also the side extension and filled in back roof. Despite this generosity of shingles I can't really recommend them. The shingles are so thin that every type of glue I tried on them made them curl up. Double sided tape actually held them down quite well, but I worried how long this hold would last. Eventually, I used hot glue as recommended by the manufacturer. This allowed me to fix the shingles in place without them curling up or distorting, but come next summer the hot glue will melt in the heat and the shingles are liable to start falling off.<br />
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I've also been continuing to work on the furniture for the ToM's bathroom. The re-purposed hall stand makes a convincing sink unit while the stove beside it has been repainted in white.<br />
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The storage cupboard and dressing table have had gold accents added.<br />
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The central bath tub has acquired four posts that will hold up an overhead canopy. I just need to figure out how the fabric of the canopy will be draped for the best effect.<br />
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Finally, I'd like to warn those of you in the market for a hip bath. I bought this Streets Ahead bath (code D2230) to use upstairs in Orchid Cottage. In this photo it looks pretty fabulous doesn't it? But look what happens when 12th scale Harry tries it out:<br />
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There is no way Harry will be able to get himself clean in that. This is sold as a 12th scale item, yet it is too small for a 12th scale doll to ever use.<br />
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On the other hand it is a little too large for a 24th scale doll. All I can think is that it is intended for use by a 12th scale child rather than an adult. Gee, it'd be nice if the website said that before you bought it. My advise to anyone else in the market for a tub like this is to avoid the Streets Ahead tubs (assuming they are all the same) and get the measurements of the item before you buy it.<br />
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The tub you see in this photo of the nursery in Preston House is at least half as big again as the new one. . . . And it's in a nursery. . . . . So my current plan is to swap the tubs and use the child size one in the nursery and the large one in Orchid Cottage. This isn't ideal as I didn't want a tub full of used water in Orchid Cottage, plus the colours won't be the best compliments to the rooms they'll be in but to use a little tub in a grown up's house would just look plain stupid.Alennkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177190501199984083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615115189247907986.post-79788643150498679122015-06-03T11:47:00.002+10:002015-06-03T11:47:28.721+10:00Construction and Colour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've continued to work away on the Orchid kit. The basic house is now assembled and here you can see the small extension that houses the stairs.<br />
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The stairs are made from balsa wood and modelled on the ones that came as part of the Pumpkin Cottage kit from Petite Properties. I started by cutting two holes in the side wall of the house to create access to the stairs then cut and built the stairs to join the space between them. The stairs were then painted and glued into place.<br />
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After the stairs were fixed in place I added walls to enclose them and was left with a small but effective extension.<br />
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These stairs have worked really well and are a great solution to the common problem of how to fit stairs into a house - just move them outside!<br />
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In the house itself I've added a rear wall (remember this kit was supposed to be left open at the back and I've come to the conclusion that is something I hate in a dollshouse). An extra wall has been added a couple of inches in from the back on the top floor. This serves a few purposes; first it helps support the roof which due to my modifications has a large patch filling in what should be open space. Next it creates a back wall against which furniture can sit rather than having to have everything pulled out to fit under the slope of the roof and just looking messy. It also creates the opportunity to add some recessed shelving - hence the cut out on the left.<br />
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Downstairs there is a small jut in the rear right corner which will house the oven. You'll notice in this photo how the top floor bows upward. In most photos of this house I've seen on the internet the floor is sagging downward. My plan is to add beams to the ceiling that will hopefully hold the top floor level and flat (or at least as level and flat as the beams turn out).<br />
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This house is the first 1/12th scale, plywood, rear opening American made dollshouse and on the whole I think it will probably be the last. Firstly, houses left open at the back don't work for me. Its impossible to layout the furniture nicely and well, it's open to the air so how are you supposed to keep things like dust and cats out? Secondly I am really disliking the ply wood. Sure, it's light and the house weights virtually nothing but it warps and it splinters. I have been trying to get the front of the house to sit nicely against the main structure and then realised why I couldn't, the front was no longer flat but bowed out at one end. I suspect this is why plywood kits all tend not to have removable/opening walls; if it isn't forcibly glued into place and thus unable to warp, it will warp. And the way the edges splinter this house needs ten times the sanding of an MDF house which all adds to the time and irritation factor not to mention the chances of getting splinters painfully lodged in your flesh.<br />
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And moving along now to my other current project, a new room for the Tower of Magic. This is the ToMs bathroom. The round structure in the middle will be a feature tub (but is currently doing a great job of storing bits and pieces). The toilet will be behind the partition in the back left corner for extra privacy (and to hide that the loo is a dodge homemade job). The remaining furniture is from my stash with the exception of the 'stove' or heater in the back left corner. This is a small plastic spray bottle with wooden bead feet, jewellery finding finials on top and a cardboard door on front. At the moment everything is painted a pale seafoam green, but I'm not sure it's the right colour. The stove definitely will go white. Um, maybe. Should the rest of the furniture stay the colour it is, or should it be darker, lighter or a different colour altogether?<br />
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It could be the Elizabethan manor house. If you've seen the "<a href="http://www.tedshop.com/barnsdale-manor-12th-scale-jacobean-manor-housebarbaras-mouldings-679-p.asp">Barnsdale Manor</a>" by Barbara's Mouldings then this is the sort of house I have in mind except mine would be in 48th scale due to space/size restrictions. Mine would be finished in red brick with (of course) lavish interiors <a href="http://cubits.org/AllThingsHobby/thread/view/11247/">much like the one you can see if you click this link</a>.<br />
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Or I could make a start on the row of Victorian Terrace Houses. These would be a series of separate houses each one room (and a staircase) wide and four or five floors high. In appearance they would be much like these old kits from DHE: <a href="http://www.dollshouseforum.com/attachments/wish-list/23707d1336756927-wish-list-discontinued-dolls-house-emporium-houses-scan0020-2-.jpg">Baker Street</a> or <a href="http://www.dollshouseforum.com/attachments/wish-list/23728d1337088198-wish-list-discontinued-dolls-house-emporium-houses-scan0003.jpg">Eaton Square</a>. Again due to size I would have to do these in either 24th or 48th scale and although similar on the outside I'd tailor the interiors to the needs of the residents. For example one could be the home of a doctor with his consulting room on the ground floor, the residents of another house could be preparing for a wedding while a third could be the secret headquarters for a gang of spies. The possibilities are endless . . . and once I get started the number of houses I do will probably be too.<br />
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But . . . having been working in smaller scales of 24th and 48th for six months it really seems like time to do something in 12th scale for a change.<br />
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A couple of months ago I discovered that fishpond (kind of an Australasian version of Amazon) sell dollshouses. Among the items listed was the "Orchid" kit by Corona Concepts (Greenleaf). It's listed price was $125 and that is the minimum I would expect to pay for a kit like that, but it was reduced to just $65. When you add in free postage . . . well, there was no way I could resist that deal.<br />
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So now I have this cute little cottage kit but no real idea what to do with it. I hunted the internet for pictures of what other people had done with the kit and saved them to a <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/alennka/the-orchid-by-greenleaf/">board on Pinterest here</a>. What I learned from this research was that if you don't use the internal wall downstairs the top floor will sag (badly) unless you add a supporting post or ceiling beams, that it rather surprisingly looks great if adapted to have a Tudor look or given a stone finish, but I like it in weatherboard the best and that most people leave out the internal stairs.<br />
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To get a good grasp on what will and won't fit into a space, I really need to see that space, so I clamped the base and side walls together and started playing with furniture layouts. Almost immediately I decided I would have to adapt the kit which was left open at the back to instead be front opening - there is simply no other way to go if you want to build in features like a fireplace and an old fashioned range oven. <br />
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Next up I learned why so many people don't include the stairs in the house - they leave no space to fit in and nicely arrange furniture in the rooms. I hate houses without logical access to the rooms; stairs are ideal but failing that fake doors to give the illusion of the possibility of stairs is essential. Fake doors won't really work in this kit, but every possible positioning and layout of stairs (at the side, the back, straight, L shape, etc) will not work. Finally, I had the brainwave to include the stairs, but not inside the house.<br />
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Remember Pumpkin Cottage? The stairs in that kit were in the little annex outside the main structure. All I need to do is cut doorways in the side wall of the kit and I can add the stairs on the outside of the house and enclose them in a lean-to type structure. Now there will be the space to have well laid out rooms in the house.<br />
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Of course, planning isn't all I've done this week. This is the start of the next (ninth?) room for the Tower of Magic. I'll leave you to guess at the purpose of this room until next week . . . .<br />
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At long last the 48th scale castle officially has a name - Dragonsdell Castle. The castle is also now finished. I recommend giving the all the following photos a 'poke' to see all the small details.<br />
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The left side of the castle features the stair tower and from the basement up: Treasury and Well Room, Armoury, Library, Gallery, Blue Bedroom and Sitting room.<br />
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On the right side (again from the bottom up) there is : Dungeons, Kitchens, Great Hall, Purple Bedroom and Dressing room and finally Alchemists Lab and bedroom.<br />
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The Alchemists Bedroom features a bed that's something of a cross between a canopied four poster, a sleigh bed and a day bed. There is a storage chest on the left side wall and a writing desk and chair in the centre of the room.<br />
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The Alchemist is at work in his lab. He, and all the dolls in the castle were made from polymer clay on wire armatures. As there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a 48th scale doll mould none of the people of the castle are exactly beautiful, most don't even look particularly human. Sculpting, especially on so small a scale is not a skill I will ever have. The Alchemist is wearing black and teal felt robes and sports a long wispy beard.<br />
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Various herbs hang from the overhead beam, drying ready for use in his future potions.<br />
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I've talked about how disappointed I was in the doors I bought from Petite Properties as they were too low to really be 48th scale. You can see in this photo the Alchemist (who is the equivalent of six feet tall) would have to practically bend double to walk through the door.<br />
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And just to help show the scale of the rooms, here's 6" tall Harry standing in the Alchemists Bedroom.<br />
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Skipping down to the Armoury and Fred is preparing to start polishing all the weaponry to keep it all nice and shiny.<br />
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Down in the dungeons and the prisoner is still in chains and has acquired a pair of guards who are wiling away the hours of guard duty with a jug of ale.<br />
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Next door the torture chamber is vacant at the moment, but perhaps the hapless prisoner in the cell will be visiting it soon . . .<br />
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Through the door behind the seated guards is the well room where the castle's water supply is accessed.<br />
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The door on the right side of the well room leads into the treasury or strong room or vault (etc) where the castle's valuables are stored.<br />
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Through the door on the left of the well room is the bottom of the stair tower where some extra storage has been slipped in.<br />
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Heading down the stairs to the well room is this maid sent to fetch some water.<br />
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Jumping up a few floors now, Rosie is in her bedroom, preparing to head out and face the day.<br />
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A pair of ladies are having a chat in the gallery. You may have noticed by now that the people are not only kind of ugly, they're also badly dressed. Trying to sew fabrics for clothes this small tends to make the fabrics just disintegrate. Felt works well, but is really too thick and make people look like they're wearing padded clothing. <br />
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The the Great Hall, one lady has settled in a seat by the fire while another tests out the balcony overhead.<br />
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The Hall is decorated with 'tapestries' and colourful runners on the tables. None of the decorations I tried for the tables (candlesticks, goblets, plates, etc) really seemed to work, so aside from the runners, the tables are largely bare.<br />
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In the kitchens below the Great Hall, the staff are busy working on the evening meal.<br />
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At the kitchen end of the room, a pair of cooks are hard at work.<br />
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While at the 'buttery' end of the room (where the booze is kept) Sam is mixing beverages in an attempt to create the perfect accompaniment to the meal.<br />
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And from this angle you can see the Turkey roasting over the fire at the back of the kitchen.<br />
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In the Library someone is sneaking out of the secret passage.<br />
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The purple bedroom is empty of people as the residents have already gone out for the day . . .<br />
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But their maid is left behind in the dressing room to catch up on mending some of her mistress' favourite gowns.<br />
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Outside, the castle was given a few finishing touches. A vine grows up the front wall of the castle adding a bit of colour and filling in a section of wall that looked a little too bland before.<br />
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The little gatehouse has finally had it's roof added. Some 'water' was added to the stream bed and some bushes planted along it's banks. Makkena the dragon has taken up residence at the base of the gatehouse.<br />
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The sides of the castle were covered with clear acetate to protect the rooms inside. I added a cut away roof over the acetate to finish it off. The roof is a piece of thick card over which I laid tiles cut from the same foam as used on the walls and painted them a blue-grey.<br />
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I compromised a lot with the outside of the castle. Originally, it was supposed to have more towers and turrets and crenellations and a much larger gatehouse but as usually I had to simplify for the sake of practicality, accessibility and ability. This is why the outside doesn't look like a castle so much as a really tall stone house. Still, not too bad for my first 48th scale scratch build.<br />
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This week I've been continuing to add accessories and details to the castle. Unfortunately, my camera can't focus on items as small as most of the accessories I've added, so I can't show you close ups of details.<br />
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The Great Hall walls have been adorned with 'tapestries' and the tables covered in runners made from pieces of woven ribbon. There are a pair of goblets and plates on the high table but you'll need some imagination to see them in this photo.<br />
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On the long table are a pair of candle holders, each containing four candles made from pieces of white foam. These are not the best pieces in the castle and I will be replacing them with something else . . . as soon as I figure out what that is.<br />
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In the dressing room adjoining the purple bedroom, wooden beads serve as storage boxes stacked atop the bank of cupboards on the back wall. A piece of self adhesive faux cow hide makes a cosy rug for underfoot.<br />
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Next door in the purple bedroom there have been a few changes. The steps leading up to the raised area have been moved forward so that the raised area is accessed from the centre of the room rather than against the back wall. Some black lace creates a railing around the raised area. The half tester bed has been draped with satin ribbon (for the bedspread) and with a woven cotton ribbon for the hanging 'curtains' and central stripe down the bed.<br />
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The furniture in the lower portion of the room has been re-arranged since last time with the shelf unit originally intended for the Hall being re-jigged for use as a wash stand and decorated with a basin and jug made from polymer clay. To give you and idea of the size of things, the jug is about 5mm high. A vase of flowers stands on a table by the door while a rocking chair sits in the middle of the rug by the fireplace.<br />
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Above the purple bedroom is the Alchemist's Lab. Shelves on the side and rear walls give the alchemist plenty of storage. He has a small writing desk for writing up the results of his experiments and a large central work table on which to carry them out.<br />
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A bowl of purple fluff is being heated over a small brazier on the worktable. I couldn't tell you what the alchemist is hoping to achieve by doing this though. Bunches of drying herbs hang from the overhead beam. Overall, I really like this room, but think it's a touch too neat at the moment; it needs more mess!<br />
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Adjoining the lab is the alchemists bedroom with what I suppose you could call a four poster sitter/day bed, storage chest and another writing desk, this time by the fire.<br />
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Coming back around to the other side of the castle is the Library which hasn't changed too much. A rug covers the flawed floorboards and some books and scrolls have been added to the desk.<br />
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Above the Library is the Gallery, which again looks very much the same as last time only with some cushions added to the seats and a length of woven ribbon laid as a floor rug.<br />
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The bed in the blue bedroom has been dressed with golden yellow satin ribbon for the bed cover adorned with some patterned red woven ribbon trim. The curtains are made from a pre-pleated fabric. A tiny polymer clay hairbrush and comb sit on the dressing table along with some small bead perfume bottles.<br />
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Finally, the Solar seats have had maroon and green felt cushions added as well as a plain felt rug laid on the floor.<br />
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