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

[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.