Two little dolls

(Quarterscale) arrived yesterday. I bought them from Jan Stockwell at Ebay and , of course, I put them into the garden of Flowerpot Cottage. Like DM in CAMP said- there is going to be trouble, baseball next to that window????!!!!

bedroom furniture for Flowerpot cottage

And she soldiered on...
Today I made up some kits of a bedroom set and a washstand ( bought from BJ MIniatures ). The kits are really excellent, even for a hamfisted and impatient animal like me :-) I still need to drape the quilt, of course; it is printed fabric and looks very nice, I think!
I also love the washstand, but I need a pitcher and basin. Anybody?

Flowerpot cottage again

When I was in Arnhem, I discovered a lady who had several wonderful small scale accessories for sale, even 1/48th ( which is not a popular scale here). Most things were, alas , too refined for my little cottage, but I managed to nick a kitty( sitting on the left, on the floor), some flowers in pots,  a coffee/tea set and a wonderful grey-and-blue kitchen pot.
Today I finally got to actually photographing them.
I have started now on some kits to furnish the bedrooms. Problem is, it is not really my scale and I have trouble thinking up the accessories, which I find EASY in 1"scale!

hollyhocks for Flowerpot cottage

Today I made some hollyhocks for my quarterscale cottage . That was a lot of work !!! I always found 1 inch scale pretty small, but it is no comparison to what 1/48 can do to your mind...( tearing hair out, shouting at the cat and going crazy generally....)
Well, I have planted them now ( they are the yellow guys on the left), one more down.

OK, here is some more Flowerpot...

Today I added the furniture and some accessories to the cottage.As you can see, the hearth and the chimneystack are not in alignment, but otherwise one would have to see the side of the hearth, which is definitely not its best side, while the front is OK.
In case you wonder where the furniture comes from , it is here. The  service is prompt and excellent.
I also proudly took a nearer pic of those pesky flowers....:-)

Not my scale!!!!

 

 

 

 

Today I made some furniture for Flowerpot cottage ( the little quarterscale house I was working on some weeks ago). It is definitely not my scale at all.I used kits, not being great with working from scratch,even though I have Fiona's book, but even so I manage to bloop all the time.I get impatient!(no surpise there, I am afraid).
I also decided to add some paint to the roof , since I did not like its color. It looks like a drunk tiger now, so I need to have another go. Well, all in all I have happily been busy, in spite of my grumbling and even forgot about the near-computer disaster that I nearly walked into today.Don't ask.

And here we are!!

 
 
 


OK. it needs some touch ups here and there, as yet, the paint unfortunately has a soft shine, so I need to try and "matte"it more. And the brickwork IS horrible, will see whether I can touch THAT up ( hmmmmm)

For the "grass" I used some crumbled oasis(florists foam), mixed with some colors of flock, not seeing any railway landscaping materials in the house:-)

about paperclay and Fiona's tips

 
 

Fiona gives a good tip for rolling paperclay if you don't have a board nor lay your grubby hands on them quickly:
use baking paper for the underground. I did so. using silicon-coated paper, byw;I used some scrap wood for thickness, like you can see.
For makingg the faux thatch in this scale she advises using a hard brush ( toothbrush for smaller edges like near the chimneys),going over the applied but still wet clay. I happily combed my way over the roof. In paperclay you have got lots of time to do that.

Flowerpot cottage continued

 
 


Today I made faux-thatch for the roof( with a hard cleaning brush over the paperclay). It doesn't look too bad, actually.At the moment, it is drying.
Since the walls of the cottage were not dry enough as yet, I decided to work on the brickwork and the garden patch. I need to make windows and windowsills as yet, do not know whether I will make it today. We will see...

Flowerpot cottage -next chapter

 
 
 
 

Today I clad nearly the whole cottage plus the chimneys in paperclay(thank you Patty, thank you Sue and thank you Rik Pierce for the tutorials I found, and big thanks to Bea for her beautiful workshop coming with this kit). I also made the brickwork - well, I can assure you that every quarterscale bricklayer should be heartily ashamed( or heartily drunk) to deliver this kind of work. As long as I don't use a magnifier to look at it, it will be fine, though, and besides, this kind of cottage is not really neat, either.
Since the paperclay has to dry before I can get on, I will leave it for now. Hope everything will be dry enough tomorrow to get on with it.
As you can see, Floris is still watching me. He loves me mini-ing.

My first adventures in quarter scale

I started working on Flowerpot cottage, as I am off-job(being battered after a meeting with the orthodontist and not being allowed to work during the next few days).Nobody said anything about miniatures being forbidden, though, as long as I don't talk to them , it seems.
Here is the start of Flowerpot cottage. Tomorrow I am going to have a go at working with Paperclay for the outside decoration. Keeping my fingers crossed, it is the very first time I am trying this!
At the top you see the prototype; I wonder whether I can even approach this lovely effect!
PS My little helpers are present again in full force, as you can see....