Finally I can post this, I couldn't before incase my father saw it. He has a model railway & for his birthday at the weekend I had made him some train/railway bunting. Stitched by hand I'm quite chuffed with how it's come out, & the background is a map. Its full size not miniature!
He really loves it
& its brilliantly unique
!
Last photo shows the planning but complete with feline assistance from Checkers, Tom & Tobacco :-D
Well thats the second final coat of underneath paint & both & front & back of the church & porch walls are finished. Underneath not undercoat as it's what the stone blocks making up the stone walls will be fixed to. The stone blocks are to be made up from egg boxes! The rough side is now painted over & will be cut into block shapes for the wall stones another time. Then other bits into parts for the door frames & window frames. Hope it goes as well as I hope it does!
I woke this morning & there instantly in my head is i believe the solution to making a miniature windchimes in several types that will hold together. Can't wait to have a go but need to finish the painting first.
Got the Zombie church & porch walls painted with the underneath cover of paint, it's not undercoat but used as a base to build up the stone blocks on. Also done the same with the Dark Dreams houses dungeon. Nice to get on with it again. Photo shows the parts of the church before building. No point photographing the Dark Dreams dungeon, at present nothing as such to show.
Another solution to long standing work halting issues has been solved. I've been stuck on the Winter Wonderland scene, this is a nocturnal scene set in a room box. It has dark blue walls & sky/ceiling & has snow on the ground. Tiny stars glittering in the sky... (fibre optics). There's trees in the wood, a pair of foxes, badger & cub in their sett underground, a barn owl on the wall, a rabbit & a cheeky poacher who's Top quality artisan made created by Hazel Voice whose name I only found out tonight.
And so I've plotted the meandering stream to create with Scenic Water & Still Water & have solved the problem (I hope!) to stop the stream leeching when I create it. Plus White insulation tape will help with securing the fibre optic star lights, it's So obvious to me.... now. Some months ago would have been better :-D So happy when my brain works :-)
Following on from my previous post this is a detailed breakdown of the display cabinet in the living room of the Beds, Knobs & Broomsticks house.
The top shelf has the CinderelIa coach in memory of my adopted Auntie Cuckoo, 3 mounted special crystals I put together (2 are amethyst, I've forgotten what the other stone is!). There's also a fairy treasure chest that I created. I also made the crystal ball too.
The middle shelfs mounted stones are 2 quartz, amethyst, lapis & tigers eye. The little ghost ornament I made from fimo & the unicorn is actually a small figure from Tudor Mints Myth & Magic series :-)
The bottom shelf has a small pewter wizard & dragon, an amethyst, quartz & I've forgotten the green ones name too lol
This is Weetmans 'CinderelIa Ware' made in the 1950s. An adopted aunt, known as Auntie Cuckoo had the mouse sugar bowl, cream jug & the pumpkin carriage in a display cabinet (& the rest of the set left to her sister.) As a child I Adored this set, so magical & enthralling. I own it now :-) Some weeks ago I spotted by chance on eBay a pumpkin coach keyring charm & knew straight away this would go into the display cabinet. It was £7.49 Plus postage in the UK.... Or £1.46 free p&p from China..... Ten days later it was here. All I needed to do was cut & file. Its finally placed in the little display cabinet in the living room of the Beds, Knobs & Broomsticks house :-) Quite a few of the items in that house are dedicated to people either living or passed on.
The first photo shows the miniature pumpkin carriage in the cabinet, the second my inherited CinderelIa Ware & the last the coach before alteration.
Well I'm quite pleased & busy plotting my latest addition to my dolls house & miniatures collection. My father bought this on my behalf from Oxfam on Wednesday. The poor old lass is a half completed project & it's a bit out of sync with itself... And so I decided almost instantly it's to be created into a 1930s/1940s wartime house that's suffered serious bomb damage on one half. This will have caused the roof to partially collapse, taking part of the bedroom floor & crashed down into the kitchen below. I'm already seeing a pantry door hanging half off, stores & provisions on show in the back corner. Perhaps the chimney tilting at a threatening angle.... Rats in the rubble & a dog going after them.... Don't worry the family who live there are fine, I don't kill my characters on a miniatures scene based on real life. However like with The Grime Reaper & Zombie Graveyard scene anything goes ;-)
I've always been interested in the social history of World War 2 & this would be a chance to bring it to life. Research & build, they'd have a mix of prewar furniture & some Utility furniture too.
The house came with 5 lights all working, loads of miniature electric extension cables which also work (hence the lit photos!) & a whole bag of bits & pieces including windows, doors, wallpaper rolls, hinges & moulding pins. I actually need the extension cables for the electrics on the Dark Dreams house.
And so, another surprise project has arrived! The entire front requires rebuilding & there's some structural support work required. But that will work with the bomb damage & instead of being hidden will be a feature in itself . It'll be a LONG time til this old lass is Finished but I enjoy the the plotting, planning & research. The building of various aspects & creating of the miniatures to go in. As I write more ideas are running through my head.... ;-)
Made a start on sorting the lights for the Grime Reaper & Zombie Graveyard & I'm well chuffed. I got these from Peter Barret garden centre 2 or 3 years ago but haven't been at a place on that scene to start work on them. The lights are meant for those little domestic Christmas village scenes you can create but I pounced on them when I saw them knowing straight away they're to be used for the Zombie Graveyard. They're not full height but half height which I've seen in by real church path. As they're meant for Christmas they had wreaths on them whereas I want blood splattered 'Beware of the Zombie' signs... Fortunately with pliers & a fight they came/broke off :-D
Photo shows the line of lights with the end one showing the lantern with the wreath removed.
I didn't record how I hid the battery box! The back of The Goblin Treasure House is very basic but in keeping with the design. The coins are stuck on the main body, and the hidey hole is covered by thin card & coins on it to disguise it. It simply lifts out, revealing the battery box to switch on. The hole is dug out of the 25p car cleaning sponge I got from Wilco lol
