Miniatures - great cabin, floors, ceilings, light

[nid_dabeille]

I have ceilings!  And floors!  And a light!

My painted and varnished floor cloth in the great cabin.  It was plain white cotton - a very smooth polished cotton, I think - that I painted with acrylics and varnished with many many coats of... something.  I think I used my Realistic Water because I didn't have any other large quantity of colorless clear shiny coating.  I tried several different things, so it may actually be a combination of coatings.


Great cabin and sick berth floors (and no windows or stern locker)


With the stern locker dry-fitted in place


I started adding beams to the ceilings.  The lower room (sick berth) hasn't progressed very far in ceiling development, but it does have a long built-in shelf, and the beginnings of stains.


Unpainted molding added to the beams.


Painted and lovely


This was an earlier test fitting before the floor cloth was in place - primarily to bask in the glow of the beautiful lamp.  I'm very happy with my hanging lamp (from Cir-Kit Concepts).  It's made of nice hefty metal too, to imitate real wrought iron.  It's elegant but solid and unfussy.  And this was my first time using a ceiling adapter with spring-loaded eyelets.  I like it!





This picture is close to actual size.

linked at doll_houses, little_world and hms_surprise.  

Comments

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

wow, these are amazing! Now all that's needed is mini Jack and Stephen. :D Do they fit in it?

(!! I totally forgot to tell you - look (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a348/yonitkorach/IMG_4366.jpg) where (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a348/yonitkorach/IMG_4365.jpg) I went!)

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I don't really want dolls in my roomboxes, though the poppets make occasional visits - like we plebians might visit a grand estate house. Somehow dolls shatter the illusion. Mini furniture looks like small REAL furniture, but dolls look like small mannequins, not real people.

(Oh how lovely!!! If I were rich, I'd go there and buy Stephen presents!!!)

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

Mmm, good point. We can always imagine them there and play music in the background!

(Or buy ourselves things and pretend we ran into Stephen while shopping. ;D)

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

(Or buy ourselves things and pretend they were for Stephen, so we could spend money more freely. "It's not for me, it's for Stephen! He deserves it!")

[stained_glass]

Jesus, Mary and Joseph! O_O That is amazing! It is absolutely fantastic - I've never seen anything like it! There's a light! And wood grain! And the ceiling!

*VENERATES*

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Hee! There you are! I hadn't seen your comment yet. :D Thank you! If you click on the link, you'll see the other stuff! It started as just Stephen's world, but gradually insisted upon becoming Jack's world too.

And when I buy expensive little things (like the scales (http://grace-poppy.livejournal.com/177066.html#cutid1), I can say, "They're not for me, they're for Stephen! And I love Stephen very much. I want to buy him expensive presents."

I also have made some poppets (http://grace-poppy.livejournal.com/93115.html)!

[rum-inspector.livejournal.com]

Oh how beatiful! and so small!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I love tiny things!

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

::gasp:: The whole thing's gorgeous! Test fitting it may be but the cabin looks wonderful with the furnishings in place. The light fixture is lovely, and the glow it imparts to the wood is so warm.

There's something about the beams in the ceiling that grab me, too. Gives it a sense of depth, I think, that feels just right.

Amazing job.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much, my dear!

[superjelly.livejournal.com]

wow, this is truly inspiring!!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Well thank you!

[matimate.livejournal.com]

You are very talented and your work is precise and looking exactly like from the book. You had to spent so many hours on it but the result is absolutely perfect:) I hope that you will continue with this project and soon there will be more pictures of your work:)

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'll definitely be continuing with the project. There's still lots of work to be done, and I'll be posting updates regularly! Right now, for instance, I'm making a sea chest for Stephen. It's turning out to be pretty cute.