1/48 scale attic

Hi all,

I thought I would share with you my latest mini make. I designed and built this entirely myself. It is a 1/48 scale attic room box.

It is made using balsa wood and card and has been aged using Tim Holtz distress inks.

Hope you like it.

Natalie

Shabby cabinet

Hi all,

It seems like ages since my last post but I have been busy decorating my full size house. I wish I could say it was all done, but at least i've done a couple of rooms.

I also had a major dolls house disaster, I fell off some ladders and managed to pull my toy shop down on top of me as I fell. Though I was bruised and battered with a black eye to boot my toy shop came off worse, almost every tile came off the roof, the attic window came off as did a bay window, it really is in a sorry state. Many of the bits inside were also broken in the fall :0(

One of those bits was a display cabinet, this is what it looked like before the fall.

It had come apart into all it's component pieces but was remarkably not broken. As I looked at it trying to decide what to do inspiration hit. I used my trusty mini drill with sanding bit to sand each piece back to the bare wood as well as good old elbow grease and sandpaper.

Then I painted each piece with ivory emulsion paint. I sanded again and used abranet to give it a smooth finish. I covered the base with a patterned paper and cut a piece of card to fit the back which I also covered with the same paper. Then I put it back together..... that was the hardest part!

I used some jewellery pins I had to replace the gold knobs that came with the cabinet and I also replaced the front Perspex as it had become scratched.

It has a little wobble, but I love it. :0)

I hope you like it too.

Natalie xx