Painting the Goblin House

Working on the house shaped lantern for the Goblin & Dragon Treasure House earlier I removed 4 glass panels, fixed all the masking tape in place, then sprayed the textured paint onto the floor, walls & chimney. Its looking quite good if I say so myself. The paint is marketed as resembling mineral stone but looks like earth which is what I was hoping for. I did the second coat then brought it back into the house, put it on the floor & promptly added cat fur to the bottom! Bugger! Will have to peel it off later now! Gotta turn it upside down tomorrow to get right up into the tall roof cos I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my miniatures & diaormas details :-D
Picture shows the before appearance :-)

The Oddities of a Miniaturists Evening

And so tonight, I found that the dragon is still tacky so I can't paint his second coat damnit. Which is good as I've run out of paint brushes! I use those childrens brush sets for 99p, but as my agency budget still isn't through I can't get out for my supported outings that have been temporarily dropped. Hence running out of various craft/miniature supplies in the meanwhile.
So instead I spent 2 hours cutting out tiny brass coins, the tiniest of which at 1.5 mm across nearly drove me crackers trying to get the flash? flashing? off. The biggest was 3.5mm & there was some 40 of these microscopic coins. Done. Finished. Thank Gods lol
The Goblin & Dragon Treasure House is moving on :-)

Goblin & Dragon Treasure

I've been working on a new miniature scene for a Goblin & Dragon Treasure House. Tonight I've painted a shield, helmet, swords, barrels, duck shaped oil lamp & amongst various other things a bird skull & the dragons had his first coat of paint :-) Trying to keep my mind & brain busy after the news on Friday of my friend Maries death :-(
I have also realised that I forgot post pics of the finished Clock Man & Time Thief diaorma. Oh well another day now :-/

Clock Man & The Time Thief is Finished!

Over the next few days I hope to post up some photos of the Clock Man & Time Thief diaorma which is Finally finished! Today's photo is simply of tiny fob watches I made from jewellery fastenings & I'm rather chuffed with how they turned out. The pencil gives a good idea of how tiny the scale is.

Creating the Unexpected

Finally one month on from my father buying & collecting it for me the day after Boxing Day, (the day I learnt my 'care' agency were dropping me with 5 days illegal notice) I have Finally, had a chance to actually look at the dolls house kit from Oxfam. For my level of work (hark at me!)  it's way too poor quality to use as a house (I considered creating a gothic/derelict house) but it's Bloody Good quality as spares & components, including slim strips of veneer often hard to come by :-)
For the new idea of the Treasure House (being a goblin with dragon treasure stash) I can use its roof tiles for that diorama. For the Grime Reaper & Zombie Graveyard diorama I've got the church door I need, the wood for the porch & components to create a porch roof plus the tiles too,  the actual arch window frame which FITS well the stained glass acetate of the Dove of Peace which will overlook a scene of blood & gore (I love my sense of humour) & has the wood for the church body/back wall of the scene & also two gravestones! My father couldn't see how I could possibly get gravestones from a house kit but it's from window components, squat arches become traditional shape gravestones!! I love creating :-D So much fun & distraction in the plotting & planning of a miniature scene :-)

Opps

For ages this bugged me, I kept thinking what was wrong was that the centre numeral wasn't central. Eventually I gave up & moved to the next side, fixed up numbers ten, eleven, looked at the last number left..... Nine or eleven.. What the hell, where's twelve?
Yup my little brain that had been saying you're tired, stop decided to teach me a lesson :-D
Thing is, I've had these numerals Years for the finishing touches to The Clock Man & The Time Thief & when I Finally put them in place I do it wrong lol Thank Gods the glue isn't strong!

Living Room Bureau

Distracting myself before a difficult Social Services meeting tomorrow I decided to put together the Bureau in the living room of Beds, Knobs & Broomsticks.
The radio is an exact copy of a
PYE MM 1931 & is signed DW 1992 UK. The paintbox with a kingfisher on is in memory of Coz/Kevin & was also created by a miniaturist. The apple pot was carved by Brian Taylor of Grandads Miniatures. The Orkney chair with drawer is (unknown) artisan made & in the drawer traditionally was a bible... & a bottle of whisky :-D
Both cats are Falcon Miniatures & the bits in the cubby holes are made by me including the glasses & their case.