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

[saibrrmen.livejournal.com]

Oh! Any particular reason why? Just modeling for the sake of the model, or would rather not have imperfect representations of lovelies, or dolls are not fantastic(haha you're the opposite of me then xD. I just have the dolls. Woe.)

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Hm - perhaps it's that I'd rather not have imperfect representation, yes... in a similar way that I don't like fanfic and I'm not crazy about fanart. And dolls are so fake compared to, say, the realistic lighting and the drawers that open. I'd rather have no Aubrey-Maturin than stiff, awkward, pretentious Aubrey-Maturin.

I love my wooden poppets very much though, because they're rather effortless (even though they took an enormous amount of work, making wigs and all). But they don't have faces, and their limbs are stiffly articulated, and they're very limited, but the limitations make them charming. They're very self aware that they're fake. (Imaginary people who know they're not real.) The roomboxes have no idea that they're fake, though, so they'd see right through any imposter doll that thought it was real. The roomboxes don't mind the self-aware poppets making occasional visits, though, because the poppets are humble and unpresumptuous visitors.

[saibrrmen.livejournal.com]

They are very lovely indeed in their imaginaryness and wigs; something about a blank vague canvas or poppet appeals. It is a good choice now that I think of it-- I do get a vaguely annoyed feeling seeing those rather huge magnificent ship models that are incredibly accurate except for the lumpy clay-faced awkwardly posed box-clothed figures all over them. Just been in a ball-joint doll mood lately :D

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Well I do have people in my regular dollhouse. I don't have anything against dolls in general. But they're just generic people, not portraits of anyone specific.

Also, male 1:12 dolls are very difficult (or expensive) to do well - their clothes and hair are less forgiving than that of female dolls. The men's clothes almost always look stiff and bulky, and I can't abide that.