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

your icon = major lulz

[sexyjohnlennon.livejournal.com]

Oh, its alright, I'm becoming accustomed to it. :D

Re: your icon = major lulz

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Oh that's a relief.

Hee, thanks, (icon)! cutie_snark made it based on quotations from me while watching the movie at mandc_watch. It always disturbs me a little bit that Stephen is lying in the sick berth possibly dying, and Jack is just sitting in the cabin staring at Stephen's cello. What's the cello doing OUT anyway? Stephen was wandering around on deck when he got shot, so either he left his cello propped up in the cabin unattended or else Jack has gotten it out to stare at while Stephen was incapacitated. Maybe Jack was trying to play it. "I miss Stephen. What will happen to our duets if he dies??? Maybe I can play BOTH instruments."

Then again, they were in the doldrums, so I suppose it wouldn't have been unreasonable to leave the cello propped up like that. No expectation that a sudden rolling wave would tip it over, really.

But STILL.

Re: your icon = major lulz

[sexyjohnlennon.livejournal.com]

Maybe he thought that if he stared at it longingly and forlornly enough, it would play itself. Haha, now I'm imagining Jack trying to play them both at the same time with hilarious results. Jack may be lucky, but I doubt he'd be lucky enough to manage that. *snerk*

Re: your icon = major lulz

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Well maybe with his toes moving the cello bow, and his elbow holding the neck... or maybe if it was a duet where the cello only had a range of four notes...