Rae86

I keep my antique dh on top of my dresser, and the one that I'm fixing up is on the hutch of my desk. My unfinished Orchid is in pieces on my craft table.

Welcome to the forum! I'm a huge fan of Supernatural, and I can't wait to see what you come up with to represent the show :-)

Welcome to the community, Brittanie! I too am working on my first dh kit, the Orchid. Mine hasn't quite decided what direction its going in, but you will definitely find that as you work on it, the dh will "speak" to you. I actually have an antique dh that I own that was a gift from my grandparents when I was young built around 1900. If you'd be interested to see it, its in my gallery.

I'm not sure what they are called exactly. Just something to hold pieces of the house together while its drying from the glue (when I'm ready for that stage)

Thank you everyone for the input! And havanaholly, I've definitely learned my lesson the hard way about following the directions to a T and using glue before I want to make any kinds of changes, or additions. I've written down the measurements that I need for flooring and marked areas for different wallpaper to be worked on next. Any ideas on where I can purchase these clamps I see that so many people seem to use with their kits? What are they called exactly? And thoughts on estimated price as well?

I followed your advice and now have successfully done a dry fit, thanks so much Chris P.

Thanks, I really appreciate the input. I've been sitting here getting a headache from trying to keep the pieces from falling apart, lol

So, I'm at the point where I'm ready to start dry-fitting my Orchid kit in order to make correct measurements for the rooms so that I can put up wallpaper, laying down flooring, etc. It seems that everything that can go wrong with what sounds like a fairly easy process according to the instructions. Some of the tabs don't fit into the slots correctly, and I can't get the structure to stay together long enough to tape things in place to even do the measurements. Help please!!! This is my first kit and I really don't know what to do now.

I didn't know how to resize, so I took the pictures from my iphone instead of the digital camera and that worked much better, with the pictures coming in at a smaller size.