New miniature

Firstly, some business.

My housemate Luke, as part of his course, has had to make a video to put on youtube. The group with the most views on their video wins a prize! Except noone knows what the prize is.

So if you would be so kind, please watch the video below to help him out.

Also, I think it's pretty funny.
If you like it, pass it on.

Now, I think it's new miniature time.

I haven't quite decided on the narrative of this one, but this is what it looks like at the moment.

It's a box!

No, there are things in the box.

Like that staircase I showed you earlier.

And a light coming from upstairs.

Interesting...

This lamp shade was tricky, I'm still not sure I've got it right.

But check out that floor.

I'm very proud of it.

Each 'plank' was individually laid.

It's really just strips of painted paper with a bit of watery PVA glue on top.

Step up

My latest miniature has this set of stairs in it.

I've made 2 other staircases before but I think this is my best yet, structurally anyway.

These stairs from last year were all kinds of wonky, but it was dark in that box so noone could really tell.

I do really like this set of stairs, but the method was a bit annoying.

See how I made it here.

For this set of stairs I did my best to make sure the steps were all the same size and didn't warp when I glued them together.

I was also feeling ambitious so I went for a banister with spindles.

If I were to make it again I think I'd tried and add carved details to the spindles, but this time I just wanted to make sure that they were all the same length.

You should be seeing the rest of this miniature some time next week!

I'm off to go finish it.

Outside the box

For my newest miniature piece I've been thinking outside the box...cos it's not in a box! Oh, I crack myself up.

Blue front door at the top of steps.

Keys still in the door, bag abandoned on the door step.

Drinks cup tipped over on the step.

Uh-oh.

This doesn't look good. 

The staircase is one of my favourite things I've made. I think they're really impressive.

They started like this; every step is an individual box that I measured out, cut and constructed.

Then I added the sides which were again carefully cut and stuck together. Then I painted the whole thing and got to work on the rest.