New miniatures - tables, scales
Mar. 9th, 2008 12:16 amMy local doll house store is closing! I grew up there! At least, I guess I started going there when I was about 13, and now I'm nearly 30, so it's been my store for a while. Though there were several missing years when I went away to college. As a teenager I used to take workshops there. I learned how to make fimo/sculpey food, I made a wicker sofa, a gazebo, a dogwood tree... They were so much fun.
Anyway, now it's closing because the owner's retiring, and therefore things are on SALE. So I finally bought my scales! My scales! The Nantasy Fantasy scales! Which I yearned for and loved so much, which swept me off my feet, and which I used to visit every time I was in the store! They're mine. No one else would have loved them like I do. They're mine, and I will give them to the miniature invisible Dr. Maturin. Even if they're unsuitable for life aboard a man o' war.
I also bought a beautiful table by CJ's Miniatures. It's very simple, but it's so fine that the Bespaq things I looked at seemed chunky. Though they were still tempting... but I find that I'm more drawn to simple things rather than the frilly fancy elegant rich Bespaq things.
And I also have a picture of my surgery table. It was an unfinished table I bought and stained and distressed. It was fun. I thwacked it and gouged it, sanded edges, rubbed grime all over it, and... ok, this may sound mad, but I cut my finger while working on it, so I dabbed blood on the table top. It's very subtle, so you can't see it in the picture, and it's just a small spot. But it's like my signature. I'll spread the mini tools across it in the sickbay. (No, there won't be an amputation scene.) And I do know that a naval surgeon would often lash together the midshipmen's sea chests for an operating table, but in the movie of M&C they have a trestle table. And it looks nicer in miniature than a bunch of vague sea chests.)
So here, pictures.
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Anyway, now it's closing because the owner's retiring, and therefore things are on SALE. So I finally bought my scales! My scales! The Nantasy Fantasy scales! Which I yearned for and loved so much, which swept me off my feet, and which I used to visit every time I was in the store! They're mine. No one else would have loved them like I do. They're mine, and I will give them to the miniature invisible Dr. Maturin. Even if they're unsuitable for life aboard a man o' war.
I also bought a beautiful table by CJ's Miniatures. It's very simple, but it's so fine that the Bespaq things I looked at seemed chunky. Though they were still tempting... but I find that I'm more drawn to simple things rather than the frilly fancy elegant rich Bespaq things.
And I also have a picture of my surgery table. It was an unfinished table I bought and stained and distressed. It was fun. I thwacked it and gouged it, sanded edges, rubbed grime all over it, and... ok, this may sound mad, but I cut my finger while working on it, so I dabbed blood on the table top. It's very subtle, so you can't see it in the picture, and it's just a small spot. But it's like my signature. I'll spread the mini tools across it in the sickbay. (No, there won't be an amputation scene.) And I do know that a naval surgeon would often lash together the midshipmen's sea chests for an operating table, but in the movie of M&C they have a trestle table. And it looks nicer in miniature than a bunch of vague sea chests.)
So here, pictures.
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