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grace_poppy

miniature picspam

May 23, 2009 15:35

There was good lighting today, so I decided to take some daylight pictures of the cabin. After all, its not always night time with music and candlelight.

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miniatures, aubrey-maturin miniatures

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mollybarton May 23 2009, 21:17:49 UTC

Oh, man, that is so amazing...

If I had money, I would have a whole room dedicated to dollhouses and miniatures. I love little things.

grace_poppy May 23 2009, 22:00:03 UTC

Thank you!

Heh, so would I. I love them too...!

sharp2799 May 23 2009, 23:21:47 UTC

This is so wonderful! And now, a newbie question: How did you get the walls so detailed? Can those be bought or what?

grace_poppy May 23 2009, 23:57:15 UTC

Thank you!

I made the walls from scratch, pretty much. Well, I bought little strips of molding, but I made all the panels myself. I had to, since I needed them to fit such a specific weird shape of wall. For normal walls, though, you can buy panels. In most online shops they have a section of building materials including molding, doors, shingles, etc., and paneling is often in there.

Here is where I wrote about making the panels, though I don't have pictures of cutting all those fiddly little bits of molding.

Is it for your House house? :D

sharp2799 May 24 2009, 02:33:22 UTC

Yep. :D I'm nowhere near building walls yet (or a floor) but I like to gather the information in bits and pieces and let it percolate in my head.

Hmm, I should post a few more pics on that.

grace_poppy May 24 2009, 03:06:17 UTC

Ah yes, I know how that works. Percolating is good.

mariaandjordan May 24 2009, 02:38:01 UTC

They are absolutely amazing! I've tried to find those things but when I want to buy them they weren't there. I'd also like that kind of thing in real life one day. Well done!

grace_poppy May 24 2009, 03:05:54 UTC

Thank you! What kind of things could you not find?

mariaandjordan May 24 2009, 11:56:59 UTC

The desk in the first picture. I prefer buying it off the few stores or markets around my area. I also have trouble describing it so I can't find it on the Internet. I'm new to this hobby but I'm hoping to get more serious now that I have more money behind me.

grace_poppy May 24 2009, 20:19:31 UTC

Ah, that is the House of Miniatures "Chippendale desk on frame" kit. I got it on ebay. I don't have any dollhouse stores near me, alas, so I have to get nearly everything on the internet (apart from stuff I make from scratch.)

chrisisthelawr May 24 2009, 06:47:27 UTC

They are just SO adorable. *sniff* *wants to hug them*

I've watched HMS Defiant. It be a mix of Bounty and Potemkin, but it also has a very hot super-sadist bad guy. (Soooooo soooo familiar.) Who also played Aschenbach later. There are no coincidences. And it has Captain Obi-Wan. *wuw*

grace_poppy May 24 2009, 20:14:48 UTC

Thank you!

Oh I haven't seen HMS Defiant. I'll have to seek it out.

chrisisthelawr May 25 2009, 19:02:20 UTC

Watch it, it has a pretty midshipman, and the villain is a wannabe-Claggart-but-fails-but-still-pretty-evil.

grace_poppy May 25 2009, 19:12:26 UTC

Oh, it's aka Damn The Defiant, which I do have in my Netflix queue! I thought you meant it had Ewan McGregor when you said it had Obi-Wan, and I thought it must be some new movie I hadn't heard of. I was all confused. I do really like Alec Guinness though, so I'll probably enjoy it.

tootsiemuppet May 24 2009, 08:33:17 UTC

It's nice to see the scale of it. :D

Is that a little watch on the desk? Kind of looks like Harrison's H4. :D

grace_poppy May 24 2009, 20:20:29 UTC

Thanks! Yes, I suppose it does look kind of like H4 - maybe Jack stole it! But actually, that isn't really Jack's watch. Jack has a nicer watch, but I couldn't find it when I was taking the photograph. Jack's watch is a little smaller.