Dolls House Room 2! Santas Workshop...

[NickWelford]

Oh, goody. Do love a good WIP.......

 

[monkeybiter]

I'm glad you're still here Melinda_dd [we have a Debbie double-d at work ], do you still get time on the lathe?

Looking forward to a WIP, good luck against the idiots this time.

 

[Melinda_dd]

Lol the idiots will get what's coming to them this year if I get beaten by rubbish again!!

Yes I'm still lurking... although haven't been in the workshop much.... I've been busy with weight loss... takes time all this exercise milarky!! (Although 3 stone gone so can't complain)

I need to get back on the lathe... looked at it yesterday and started twitching! !

 

[Melinda_dd]

Sorry guys but the wip kind of went by the way side as panic set in!
But I'll post what I have.....

This is with the back and sides attached.
Think it really looka like a shed!!!

 

[Melinda_dd]

So the above post shows the roof from the inside.
I wanted to put the perspex in so it lets more light in.
This is where I claim it's woodwork honest....
I made the rebate in the roof for the perspex with my old rebate plane!!

 

[Melinda_dd]

So I vowed never to do shingles again unless I had a lot of time!!!........
What can I say. ...I'm a sucker for shingles! !
They take agggggges

Spot the mistake!!..... I was not taking them all off when I realised what i'ld done!!

 

[Melinda_dd]

So I had a little spin on the lathe
.. nothing fancy as just didn't have the time.
A few pots and.... can anyone guess what the other bit will be!!

 

[Melinda_dd]

Finshed roof with the shingles.
Went for diffent colours this year

 

[monkeybiter]

Enjoying this, it's certainly taking shape/looking the part.

Are you making a little flower pot man?

 

[flying haggis]

Looks like a "gazunder"!!

looking good, keep the wip pics coming and show the judges who is the boss

 

[Melinda_dd]

Mike.... got it in 1 lol
I thought i'ld bring a bit of what I do best to this one..... sarcasm! Speacial for the judges!

SO THE RESULTS ARE IN..... YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT TILL THE END OF THE WIP!!!

 

[Melinda_dd]

Haggis I'll keep them coming as much as the pictures I took will allow!
Missed a few opportunitys due to rushing and dead camera phone battery!

 

[Melinda_dd]

So next I made these.... not as good as I would have liked them but quick non the less.
So the table will be the potting bench. .. no greatness here just cutting and gluing with a hot glue gun (my new best friend)

The shelves used to be a little hinged box, so I cut it down in side widths added shelves and burnt it with my blow torch (sounds impressive but it's a mini thing you'd use in the kitchen!) To give it an old distressed look

 

[Melinda_dd]

Next I concentrated on Bil and Ben.
Now I will admit that the pots for their arms and legs I got from ebay... I could quite easily have turned them myself (as shown in a previous picture, but I just didn't have the time to do the amount needed.) I did turn the body's and heads though
Luckily I have some fence paint left over that was exactly the colour i needed.
I went by pictures from last years show to get them as close as possible.

The legs and arms are threaded on cotton so they can sit down

 

[Melinda_dd]

Who's ready to see a finished miniture bill and ben!!!!

 

[n0legs]

Who's ready to see a finished miniture bill and ben!!!!

ME!!!! Flobadob :lol:

 

[blackrodd]

ME! ME! Flobolob




Rodders

 

[Melinda_dd]

Pmsl ok here ya go!!!

They're treaded with cotton. Not too tight so they can still move and sit upright.
The hair is raffia cut thinly, and the hats I bought from ebay.......

Introducing last years bill and ben winners created in minuture. .... my sarcastic streak coming out!!

 

[Melinda_dd]

So this is were my wip pictures end.

After bill and ben I constructed some plants to put in the pots I turned.
I bought the greenery and some roses from the dolls house shop near me (wishing I had of done this prior to buying a few ready made plants in pots as would have saved me a fortune. ... my plants cost a measly 57p to make rather than the £1.99 I paid for the already done! !!

I gave some tools a bit of paint to make look more realistic.
I covered splats of pva with some very fine sepelle saw dust to look like compost.

Then it was just a case of positioning everything and gluing it in place. Remember this year I have bought some things due to time limitations, so please bear that in mind. (I do feel I've cheated slightly.)
This ended at 10.30pm friday night ready for the show yesterday.
I never have any time on the morning of the show as it's just over an hour away from our house, and we have to have dropped it off by 10am.... and I'm not a morning person!

So the next pictures will be the finished room ... at the show. ... after judging....

 

[blackrodd]

I'm very interested in the unveiling, Or to put it another way, Flobalobadob! Weeed.
Given fair do's, you ought to be a winner!
I do like the The singeing treatment. Regards Rodders