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Hello to everybody After some months of silence, this is my new miniature creation. A new shop windows with a showroom of bathrooms and accessories. As always the façade follows the art-nouveau style, with an important sgraffito in two colours, stone arches and a sinuous baseboard also made of stone. the sidewall is made with a new piece of concrete. It reproduces the original design which Antonio Gaudí made for the first time in Batlló House. This house is in Barcelona, in Passeig de Gràcia (one of the most important Barcelona's avenue), and this design was also used for
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Books for Scratch Staircase Building
WeekendMiniaturist posted a topic in Books, Magazines & Research
I have always admired miniaturists who build wonderful staircases in roomboxes and their dollhouses. I remember Paul Moore had (from memory) created the Winterthur Staircase and it was shown on the inside cover of the back of a Miniature Collector Magazine. In my recent quest of stairbuilding and I had a nice conversation with Peter Kendall at Guild School and he recommended a book, A Treatise on Stairbuilding & Handrailing by W&A Mowat. (Excellent Book.) I also purchased, Constructing Staircases, Balustrades & Landings by William P. Spence and Taunton's Building Stairs fr -
Hello This time I want to show you some bathrooms which I have made for different miniature houses. As you know I build houses with an aesthetic of the beginning of XX century but with a contemporary feeling, this is the reason because of I use accesories and lights that, in some case, have been designed one hundred years after. So, in these bathrooms I try to reproduce the atmosphere of these rooms, I keep the ancient cast iron bathtube and the bath sink, which in many cases was made in England, as I can do in a real restoration of a flat. But the toilet and the bidet are new ones. The toi
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This is one of my latest miniature architecture work: an art-nouveau shop window inspired in the buildings of Domènech i Montaner, an architect who work mainly in Barcelona, the last quarter of XIX century and the first one in XX century, the same time that Gaudí, Puig i Cadafalch, Jújol... and so many others, building a new and "modern" city thanks to a very wealthy bourgeoisie who funded many important projects. It is made of stone, granite, sandstone, marble.. (obviously artificial stone). More than 30 new moulds, altmost 450 pieces. A puzzle in which none mistake bigger that 0,5 mm could
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Building materials for 1/12th scale Structures: Plywood
WeekendMiniaturist posted a topic in Structures & Dollhouses
Help need some opinions please! I'm reviewing floor plans from my library of structures and floor plans in books, and am wondering if members of the forum would post their opinions. I've never done a one of a kind structure / scratch build before. So should I use 3/8" plywood for the walls, or would you use miniature 2x4s and build it like a real home? I could use task board for the walls, or miniature plywood, or crescent board, but that is likely pretty expensive, vs. building with 3/8" plywood. (I've only half built 1 RGT kit in the past : - ) I'm dreaming of a scratch build based -
Hello to everybody, I want to share with you one of my latest work of miniature architecture in 1/12 scale. It is something very different, because it is inspired by Barcelona's streets, its sidewalks, its art-nouveau façades. So it is not only a room-box, it is a piece of city. I like to take photos of my miniatures outside, as they were real buildings, It is funny to watch how sun plays with the façade while draws deep shadows, or to see the effect of the miniature bulbs at night. It is my first façade made of stone, artificial stone of course, but it keeps the texture, colour and shine of
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Building materials: façades, ceilings, finishings
miniarquitect posted a topic in Structures & Dollhouses
In this last topic about building materials, I am going to show you some examples of wall, façades and ceiling finishing. As usually I try to reproduce as close as possible the final effect of real ones in order my miniature buildings and structures have a realistic atmosphere. In this first collage you can find head jambs, flat arches, door posts, stone wainscot and pilasters. they imitate different finishing such as mortar, stucco or stone, in many cases made of artificial stone which is polished as real ones -
A few years ago, a client asked me to make a 1:144 Scale version of her brother's house. The modest home, in the nearby town of Manchester, Michigan, was in what I would describe as Late 19th century Michigan Vernacular Victorian style. The work of a local builder, it was a fairly simple structure, with no gingerbread except for a tiny bit of "lace" at the gable ends, and with distinctive windows. The distinctive stone porch was created from the small boulders left all over Michigan when the glaciers retreated. The client's brother had lovingly restored the house, and planted a lovely garde
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Hello again, When I began to build miniature houses I realised that I had to start from scratch. Not only the style and the kind of architecture was different to any "kit", but also all accessories, pavements, finishes... should be reinvented. I would like to share with you some of these "building materials", and will start with carpentry. balconies this is the most common balcony window you can find in many houses of Barcelona. Made of wood and painted in two colours, normally it is in pastel white inside. You have inside shutters and outside you can find two kinds of blinds: "alicantinas
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hello to everybody, this new topic is going to be very extensive, so I will need four messages due to the limit of 1 Mb when I adjoint photos. I hope it won't be heavy nor boring! I want to talk about what I call "miniature houses" or "miniature architecture" in order to distinguish from "dollhouses". a "miniature house" is the same of any other miniature, that is, if you enlarge twelve times, you could walk and live as if it was real. (well, it is not absolutely true, there is not running water nor gas, only electricity: miniature switches and miniature sockets in each room that could wor
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1:!44 Thomas' La Fenetre In Progress By Nell Corkin
NellCorkin posted a gallery image in Fine Miniatures Gallery
From the album: Small Scales
Thanks to an IGMA Guild School Scholarship, I was able to cross "take a Noel & Pat Thomas Class" off my bucket list. "La Fenetre" (The Window) was the building I made in class. The next year was the Thomas' last at Guild School, so I made this piece as a tribute for the annual Guild School auction. It was a cinch, as I already had the information I needed, and a twelfth scale model to work from. The table, by Mark Murphy, seemed the perfect setting. The 1:144 La Fenetre is made from 1/32" birch plywood, with acrylic gesso used on the two side walls in place of the plaster we used on the or© Nell Corkin 2011
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Actually small castles, tower houses were originally built for defensive purposes along border regions in the British Isles. Many are still inhabited. This one would have been built in the 15th Century. Originally, a wooden ladder would have led to the second floor doorway, and could have been removed in times of danger. The staircase, a ground floor doorway (on right side, off camera) and the half-timber solar would have been added in later, more peaceful times. The tower was made from 1/16" birch plywood, with over 3500 stones cut from .015" x .125" strip stryene and applied individually, th -
1:144 Scale Pargeted House By Nell Corkin
NellCorkin posted a gallery image in Fine Miniatures Gallery
From the album: Small Scales
Decorative plaster work, known as "pargeting" was the fashionable way to update your tired old half-timber house in 16th century England. Inspired by Henry VIII's Nonesuch Palace, designs could range from simple geometric shapes to faboulous fantasy creations, depending on the skill of the craftsman and the taste (and budget) of the homeowner. The craft of pargeting is enjoying something of a revival in England today. This house was build from 1?32" birch plywood, with gesso used to simulate plaster. The floral design is my own, but as it took me over 10 years to come up with a satisfactory te© Nell Corkin 2010
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1:144 Scale Midsomer Cottage By Nell Corkin
NellCorkin posted a gallery image in Fine Miniatures Gallery
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A typical half-timber English cottage,made from 1/32" birch plywood. The timbers are stained N scale 2x8 basswood strips; gesso is used to simulate plaster, and the brick infill is printed paper. The doors,windows and chimney pots are modified N scale castings; the roof slates are textured paper. The landscaping was done with Woodland Scenics materials, except for the climbing rose, which is etched brass foliage that has been painted and carefully shaped - literally one leaf at a time. Height to top of roof: 2 1/4"© Nell Corkin 2010
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1:144 Scale Glencairn Cottage By Nell Corkin
NellCorkin posted a gallery image in Fine Miniatures Gallery
From the album: Small Scales
This house is an example of the "Storybook Style" of architecture, popular in the U.S. after the first World War. Supposedly inspired by the villages of Europe, Storybook houses incorporate picturesque details and a variety of textures and materials. This 1:144 version was made from 1/32" birch plywood and textured with acrylic gesso to give the appearance of stucco. The chimney stones and doorway are individual pieces of .020" and .015" strip styrene, with thick gesso added to simulate stone. The shingles are paper. The landscaping utilizes model railroad materials and natural stones. Height© Nell Corkin 2007
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