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From the album: The Prancing Pony Gypsy Wagon
The instructions that come with the kit are very detailed, and even include all the paint colors if you want to paint the kit to look just like the photo. They are also in color and include lots of photos! I did a couple of days of research on the wagons and will be doing the colors for mine quite a bit differently from the kit image. -
From the album: The Prancing Pony Gypsy Wagon
This kit is not a tab and slot kit. It has precision cut pieces and fits together very nicely. -
From the album: The Prancing Pony Gypsy Wagon
I've dry fit the interior wall details. These pieces are again intricately laser etched to appear carved. The owners of the wagons were, many times, highly skilled woodworkers and the carvings on their wagons were representative of their work. -
From the album: The Prancing Pony Gypsy Wagon
This is the inside. The back section is a bed, and typically underneath that section is another sleeping compartment behind cupboard doors. In this kit the opening to the upper bed is cut too low. Possibly the accessories would cover this opening, but I don't plan to use them at this point. I had been thinking to open this up, and now it looks like I will do just that. -
From the album: The White Rose
The shingle work I started night before last was a total fail and I had to chip and scrape it all off yesterday, but comforted myself by giving the house two more coats of paint. The trim needs more paint yet. Michael's had a sale on Americana acrylic paints which I love. The walls are now Snow Titanium White. I'm mixing whites in this project which gives it some very subtle coloring. Though sometimes working in all white is blinding. It's like black, you lose the ability to see differences when you stare at it too long LOL! -
From the album: The Prancing Pony Gypsy Wagon
The traditional interior layout of the wagon had a fireplace with stove insert on the left hand side (if you are facing the entrance to the wagon.) A chest of drawers was positioned on the right hand side down near the bunk. There was a lamp above the dresser and the dresser top could be used as a table. Benches were on the right across from the fireplace and on the left across from the dresser. -
From the album: The Prancing Pony Gypsy Wagon
If you were wondering about the small figure in the wagon, here she is! She is a half scale ball jointed doll (BJD), made with a 3D printer. She is resting here in a half scale Bespaq chair. More about her later! -
From the album: The Prancing Pony Gypsy Wagon
I decided to do a dry fit the kit to plan painting and staining. It would be too easy to get the steps out of order. This kit is modeled after a traditional Ledge Wagon which were painted dark reds and greens with lots of gold accents. Many had brightly painted details as well, typically depicting flowers, fruits, animals, and horses. The undercarriage was usually painted cream or yellow, again with accents and details painted to bring out whatever design was carved into the wood. The owners of these wagons were very proud of them. The more ornate the wagon, the wealthier the owner. -
From the album: The Prancing Pony Gypsy Wagon
This is an intricate, very detailed kit. Everything you need to complete the kit is included, including all trims. It was also neatly packaged with various parts already bagged and labelled. For now I plan to use everything but the interior accessories. I've got plans, BwaHaHa! -
From the album: The Prancing Pony Gypsy Wagon
The floor of the wagon comes pre-scored to look like plank flooring. -
From the album: The Prancing Pony Gypsy Wagon
I've chosen deep colors for the wagon. The exterior will be in Americana Cranberry Wine, undercarriage in Americana Light Buttermilk. I'll be staining the interior for rich wood tones, again adding gold accents. -
From the album: The White Rose
I used spackle for the grout on my stone foundation. This was tricky, but it seems to have turned out fine. The stone isn't exactly egg carton. The egg carton bricks I was cutting out were too thick looking (to me) for this half scale project. They will work on others, but looked too heavy on this house. So I used a very heavy textured art paper instead.- 4 comments
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From the album: The White Rose
Yesterday was spackle mess day. Besides using the stuff to grout the brick (see next image) I went over the house looking for all the cracks and crevices that needed to be filled. The buildups along the roof and brow line were a composite I created from mini lumber and molding. The molding is a Houseworks product which has a groove cut at the 90 degree corner to allow wires to be run behind it when used inside as crown molding. This created a gap that ran along the entire edge of both of these assemblies, so I needed to fill it, like I had already done on the one on the kitchen bay. Also, due to the slanted Mansard roof, a gap was created where the roof met the buildup at the brow line. As I was puzzling with my shingle issue, I decided to just fill it while I was doing this clean up. Of course, I got spackle all over me and little crumbles and dust everywhere! -
From the album: The White Rose
Three coats of paint on the walls. (Have I mentioned how much I like Americana craft paints!) Installed horizontal trim along the top of the foundation stonework and vertical corner trim on the edges.- 4 comments
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From the album: The White Rose
Close up of foundation stone work.- 1 comment
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From the album: The White Rose
I installed the foundation "stones" last night. This took a surprisingly long time to do. The paper swelled due to the glue, but shrunk back down as it dried, so the spacing was preserved. I'm going to try piping the grout because I don't want too much of it on the stone's surface, so that's the next step for this part. I worked on starting the shingles too, but had to strip them off this morning as a total fail. The daylighting really shows how thin the first paint layer is. It needs additional coats. -
From the album: The White Rose
All siding is installed. The flat base section will have brick or stonework. The dentil molding is now also installed. The first coat(s) of white paint are on, but the camera shows more coats are needed.- 7 comments
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We are always talking about kits we want in different threads, but I assume Santa (MiniMan) doesn't have time to read it all, so maybe we should write a Christmas List to make it easy on him. I thought I'd go ahead and start the letter, and the rest of you can jump in.... Dear Santa MiniMan: I've been really good this year, so I thought I should send you my Christmas wish list early All I want is a half scale Beacon Hill kit! And if it's not too much to ask, a half scale Vineyard Cottage, Crestview, or Lily would be so nice too! Christmas cookies and milk are on the table (half scale of course!) :xmas: Love, Dalesq
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From the album: The White Rose
I wish I could work faster, but I'm making progress. All the siding is attached and the buildups at the brow and roof line and kitchen bay are glued. The dormer and front bay buildups aren't yet attached. I'm still working out how to do the facade for the bay, and I don't want to attach the dormer buildup until I've finished the mansard roof. I've gotten about 2/3 of her painted with the first coat of paint. The first coat is slow going because of the grooves in the siding. I don't want paint built up in the grooves. My pier block base has helped to keep the house square while drying. An unexpected benefit!- 3 comments
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From the album: The White Rose
Starting to attach the build ups and molding after a LOT of cutting and dry fitting of the exterior siding and trim pieces. The exterior should go faster now- 2 comments
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From the album: The White Rose
I have a small base for the house and wanted a way to secure the house to the base without permanently gluing it yet. I came up with a sort of pier block idea. I cut half inch square blocks that are the same depth as under the base of the house. I secured them to the house in the corners with glue dots. The glue dots aren't permanent and are just lightly enough attached to hold the "piers" in place so that I could position the house onto the base, permanently gluing the "piers" to the base. When the glue was dry, I was able to gently pop the house off the piers and remove the glue dots. Now the base has permanent piers and I can remove the house from the base when needed as I finish construction. This also allows me to work on the landscaping for the base separately from the house. So far, it's working -
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The house sitting on the base "locked" into place by the pier blocks.- 2 comments
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Base with "pier" blocks glued in place.-
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The siding has been giving me fits. I almost gave up and went to clapboard. Almost. But then I decided to slow down and cut out all the window (and door) openings so that I would get the effect I want. It's tedious, but turning out much better. In the top image you can see the piecing, and even though I've lined up the board "planks" the seams will show. Filling with spackle won't hide this, so I had to stop and stare at the house for awhile. I didn't want to cut all the openings; but the oval ones are the most difficult, and while slow going, it's turning out right (see bottom image). -
My question is this, if you were going to build a dollhouse as 'therapy' (something to destress you, make you happy, no other reason) and you were choosing between a (half scale if you're counting) Buttercup and Chantilly, which would you choose? I ordered these two houses, one for my daughter, and she's chosen a different house since. So I have the option of building either. Because I'm having a hard time making up my mind, I wondered how others would think, facing the same choice. Either way, I plan some light bashing and a storybook type look that might hint strongly of bohemian/castle/critter...... If that makes any sense And for those of you who know I'm working on some big houses, I truly need a smaller project. I've always wanted a Greenleaf Half Scale, so here I am
