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Scale : HO....It is nice to know someone of your knowledge and experience is nearby! Maybe we'll meet one day and I can see some of your miniatures in person! (I just took a divorce case in Marshall, MO and I will certainly be there in the next few months....) Here's one more....

THanks. Here's a minimalist one called "Old Folks"

Here's another type of miniature I like to make...this one is called "The Artist and the Photographer"

CheckMouse- here's another miniature with a car...."the Bust!"

Yew, all my life i've made things. So I rehabed a 160 year old saloon. My law office is half the first floor and the other half is art studio. Perfect for gluing! Run from one room to the other, put some parts together, go to the other side, see a client, talk to lawyers on the phone while I'm grouting a patio...works out great! Doll houses seem amenable to working in short but frequent bursts. Keeps me from touching the paint to see if it is dry yet!

THanks everyone for your input. No I haven't introduced myself as yet- I'm just learning the structure of this site. By the way- is it impolitic to mention that I had to remanufacture all doors, window frames, posts and railings, a number of significant and significantly warped panels, and add quite few reinforcements back trim elements and the like to make a decent structure. The "kit" was little more than a box of largely inadequate lumber and some poorly thought out and scantily illustrated instructions. It was much more like building a real house than gluing together rather elegant pre-assemblies as I'm now doing with the street of shops. My unfortunate experience was not limited to the Westville. I also built a log cabin for my grandson that shared many of the same problems but was more tolerable only by virtue of the rougher style of the cabin. Too bad. There is a Greenleaf kit that looks exactly like my 1853 Santa Fe Trail Trading Post that I live in and have my studios in. I don't think I'm enough of a masachist! So bah! Humbug! Now I got that out of my system. I am enjoying getting to know you folks...

Havanaholly. Under my stairs is a master power strip with various area electrical subsystems plugged into it. The door, jam, trim and slanted roof piece easily are removed for access (but fit back invisibly.)

Thanks Blue Bear - here's a closeup....

THanks. I appreciate your encouragement. I have a bunch of closeups but they are too large to upload apparently. Next project is underway- 3 shop street of shops. The corner shop will be my law office, the other two combined to be my miniature art gallery- replicating one I owned years ago with my art work miniaturized on display...in the meantime I built a cabin for the seven dwarfs at the request of my 3 year old grandson (Disney sells a great set of 1:12 seven dwarfs!!!) I need to kick this habit! Actually art production down to zero around here! BUT, I must say these are the first presents I ever made for anyone that actually consumes their attention for hours on end day after day!

This is the first doll house I have built. With some slight modifications it resembles the family home my wife grew up in. As you can see from the pictures, many parts were remade, modified, or replaced. Some because of poor wood and warpage, some for modification purposes. Great fun but about 100 hours of work to this point (including some furniture construction. I'd love to read what you think....