mini bookcase and marmalade

[nid_dabeille]

I made a bookcase for Stephen's dispensary (which features so prominently in the "Sir!  Sir, it's Mister Hollom!" scene and elsewhere...  What, you've never noticed it?) as well as a random jar of marmalade for him to breakfast upon.

I also adapted an old shelf/dresser thing that I've had since childhood in my old dollhouse, but I never quite liked it.  However, I found that it fits perfectly in the low-ceilinged sick bay, so I decided to use it there with some adaptations.  I think it just may be the only thing that comes from my original collection of miniatures!  Mostly because none of those things are good enough for Jack and Stephen.

     


Bookcase in progress










The shelf with the rail below is to hold his largest bottles that won't fit on regular shelves.  The rail is to keep them from falling out or over in a heavy sea (which is also the reason for doors on the bookcase, I imagine.)  Really I had no idea what was below the bookcase (even after poring over countless screencaps and adjusting the brightness and contrast to TRY to see what it was), so I decided just to invent a shelf for big bottles.  Because it was easy and because I'm kind of lazy and because I really didn't want to have to make more books than absolutely necessary.  (Why does Stephen have to have so many books in his dispensary???)  So far I've made 3 books.  Phew.


Here's the beginning of the breakfast stuff, with the marmalade.  (I keep wanting to type marmelade, which Wikipedia tells me is the name of a town in Haiti and a misspelling of marmalade.  I think I must have been spelling it wrong all these years!)


I made the jar out of some tubing and jewelry findings, and the marmalade itself out of Realistic Water and some shavings of an orange plastic prescription bottle.


Here's the old dresser shelf thing.


So I ripped off all the fronts of the drawers and made new ones, as well as removing most of the varnish and also some of the stain in the lower portion, because I expect it's gotten wet several times in its life.  Probably not submerged in standing water, but what with leaky walls and all, and the sickbay being located right at the stern where the ship goes crashing forward into the waves, I expect it gets wet sometimes.  And I dirtied and scratched it up too.


I don't know what he'll put in there.  Bandages and lint, non-precious things.


And just for curiosity of how it would look, I took this picture of a view out their window.  (I set the roombox up in front of my computer screen.)  "There's the Acheron, and - hey wait a minute, that's us over there!"

Comments

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

You're amazing!

It's great that you put the before and after pictures of the dresser, because you can see what a huge difference you made in the doors. And your use of the plastic pharmacy bottle is inspired.

I love the view out the windows!

[ozfille]

Maybe Stephen would store his coca leaves in one of the draws, but then he wouldn't want the rats to get to them like before, so he would keep them under lock and key in a metal box.

Perhaps you could look up some of the medical terms listed on Kerry Webb's Maturin Medicine site -

Maturin's Medicine

to create labels.

Yes Stephen I'm sure likes Sophie's marmalade almost as much as Jack, but unfortunately no hot buttered crumpets are to be found on a man-of-war, just hard tack. *g*

[shipotl.livejournal.com]

I love looking at your creations. I can only imagine how much more I would like them if I saw the real thing.

[luisadeza.livejournal.com]

Gosh, these are so pretty. I mean, they're pretty cool before you work on them already, but all the loving little details make those special!

[tealight-rookie.livejournal.com]

:D

I especially love the marmalade jar and the view out of the window!

[kindstar.livejournal.com]

How sweet this is! I love the breakfast setting, it looks perfect. I think I remember when you got the toast rack. The marmalade jar is delightful. (Someone, I forget who, said "I cannot trust a man who can only spell a word one way," or something close, which I really like, since spelling was never one of my strong points.)

Everything you make is amazing. The refurbishing of the old dollhouse piece is excellent. It was an odd little piece. It looks like the top over the drawers is not level, but slopes down a bit. But now it really looks like something, and no doubt Stephen will find it very useful. I particularly love the little white knob handles on the drawer. Very nice!

And, what a view! Of course, if any other ships got that close, I suspect Jack would be taking pot shots at them! Oh, but they are British, of course, or they would never have gotten that close!

Delightful, as always!

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

I think half of the joy of these is just to see how you make things transform. I can't even IMAGINE that kind of patience.

*snug* You're a treasure.

[soho-iced.livejournal.com]

I'm in awe of your crafty-ness, as always. Possibly nosy question: did you become interested in renovating and re-modelling (as opposed to only collecting) miniature things before or after you began working in conservation?

[chrisisthelawr.livejournal.com]

SO CUTE. Now all we need are some adorable little Jack and Stephen dolls who can sit, hold tea cup or instruments, and so on. <3


I made a little Stephen with a dollmaker. Don't know how accurate it is, for the pics usually don't show his lower half.

http://christianisthelawr.deviantart.com/art/Stephen-Maturin-Doll-122931753

[thehappyreturn.livejournal.com]

I want to kidnap you for the Hornblower fandom. This is amazing.

(here via despatches - hope that's ok).