Start of Rosedale half-scale.
I thought about titling this post "It's the little things" but that wouldn't be very descriptive.
Whilst thinking about my next big step with the Spring Fling, I got into the half-scale Rosedale package. This is the first half-scale kit I've ever tried.
The sheets of plywood are quite thin, but much denser than the old 1:12 die-cut sheets. Also they are pretty curvy due to being so thin, so will have to watch about that. The laser-cuts were very nice-- minimal sanding here.
I punched out the main floors and walls, and put them together in a dry-fit, to see how I need to proceed:
Well, first of all, the only way that I could get the 2nd floor and the staircase wall/left (step C.3) twisted together was to leave off all the other pieces (1st floor and staircase wall/right); maybe it will be OK once they're glued together, but it sure was a tight squeeze. I don't think that step will be easy any way I do it. Everything else was a super-tight fit, which is nice but not something I'm used to, with the die-cut kits! I did have to scrape out the slots in the 3rd floor to get it to fit on.
I broke out a few pieces of furniture:
One of my colleagues gave me the little yellow chairs, which are definitely looking like 3/4-scale. The little easy chair is a Hallmark ornament-- it might work, though it seems a bit big...
I was looking on fov's blog about her 1/2-scale Rosedale and Fairfield builds http://www.emilymorganti.com/dollhouse/, and she showed her Fairfield kitchen http://www.emilymorganti.com/blog/?p=4156 with a little stove and frig that are Acme magnets from eBay. I liked them so much that I went onto eBay and found them!
I am very tickled with them! My RL stove top is 3 ft high, which would be 1.5" in 1/2-scale; this little stove top is just a smidge over 1.5" high, so spot on for scale.
Both pieces are dated 1992; I just noticed that the stove has a $2.49 price sticker on the back-- let me just say that this is not what it cost on eBay...
So, since these are the only pieces of furniture that I have that are 1/2-scale, I staged them in front of my wallpapers for a reality check. I printed the wallpapers onto cardstock; I will see how this works in 1/2-scale...
Isn't this kitchen paper cute! I did a google search for vintage kitchen wallpaper, found a (small) image, and copied and pasted very carefully in Photoshop (this took a while) until I had enough tinily-printed paper.
The bathroom paper is from http://www.jennifersprintables.com/, as are the red (bedroom), gray-brown flowers (living room) and green (attic). The kitchen tile and tiny tile for the bathroom, I found from a google image search. I had to resize all of these images in Photoshop; this is a new way of thinking for me-- I kept having to remind myself to check the pattern sizes against the actual house, since I am so accustomed to 1:12.
I am going to prime the walls and floors, and get back to the instructions; the first step is actually to prep and assemble the staircase, but I had to see how the main build was going to shape up first...! I think I will use acrylic to prime, since I think that latex will be too thick for this scale.
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