KathieB Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 2 hours ago, Milah said: I think it was meant to be The Miniature Universe is equipped with a tractor beam. You didn't stand a chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shy Spirit Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 It was definitely meant to be. I love the Arthur kit. It is a straightforward build, an easygoing dollhouse. (Dollhouses do have their own personalities, as you will have discovered if you've been reading a lot here!) I wonder what your house wants to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fov Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I won two eBay auctions this week - a half scale artist doll and an easel with a painting in progress. I'm so excited to put them together! I haven't received them yet, so here are pics from the auctions. This will motivate me to finally complete the artist studio portion of my Spanish Revival cottage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debsrand56 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Congratulations! Nice finds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 I love the little artist. Who made her? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fov Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 I don't know, she's not signed. The easel is made by Ruth Mazur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreatureCrafter Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 (edited) Thought I would add a picture of what I picked up at this year's miniatura. Mostly just cheap vintage bits and bobs. Edited May 2, 2018 by CreatureCrafter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 The mug with the skull and crossbones gave me a chuckle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreatureCrafter Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 15 minutes ago, KathieB said: The mug with the skull and crossbones gave me a chuckle. It's from a cool shop called twisted miniatures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minilover62 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 This is what I could snatch from the Chicago Shows, basically all of this is for projects present and future. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minilover62 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 and this: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 The "gold" bathroom fixtures gave me a chuckle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shy Spirit Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 I like the Asian style mirror, very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minilover62 Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Holly, i bought the bathroom set because I have never seen online or anywhere else this type of set. Truly rare to me at least. It will be very good for the oriental house that I am planning.lol Rosalind, you can find this mirror on Ebay from time to time. I bought it there to save the shipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 I'm looking forward to seeing that bathroom set in situ; I can imagine how the rest of the room will look! I really enjoy that painting you got of the deck chairs and seascape; and are those bananas or plantains? They look very real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minilover62 Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Those are plantains, and surprisingly enough I've got them from a dealer from Holland! And more surprising is that the price of the greens was $1.50 and the yellows $4.50!! The painting is for my current project, the Beach House that I can't wait to continue, but my husband has a bunch of stuff on my working table that I am patiently waiting for him to put away so I can move on.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 I love me some good ol' fried plantains, now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodentraiser Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 I went out and bought a San Franciscan locally. Came home and knocked it down and put it in the dumpster along with most of the stuff that came with it. The house was trashed anyway and none of the things that came with it were really worth anything. The reason I went to get it though, was in the pictures there was a Lawbre 360° turnback staircase. So I got that. Then as bonuses, there were two Carlson bay windows, the kind that are going for about $30 apiece on eBay. And I got most of an RGT room addition, which I had wanted and now I don't have to buy it. Plus a bunch of picture frames for the shadowbox walls if I ever start working on that again. So all in all, a pretty good day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1martinimomma Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 You put a San Fran in the trash. I am surprised that you would do that. It must have been so bad it couldn't be saved. Glad you got some other things that made your purchase worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SewMini Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 I actually ended up trashing most of the San Franciscan I had gotten on Craigslist last year. It was in a much worse state than I had expected with parts of it half built but then broken. I ended up salvaging loads of hardwood floor veneer strips, dowels, a few good pieces of plywood and all of the stair railings. It wasn't a total loss. Still felt a bit guilty putting it out with the trash though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodentraiser Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 On 5/6/2018, 5:40:58, 1martinimomma said: You put a San Fran in the trash. I am surprised that you would do that. It must have been so bad it couldn't be saved. Glad you got some other things that made your purchase worth it. Well, for one thing, the way the house is built, there's really no way to knock it down flat without shattering the walls and I couldn't bring up another house into my room, anyway. Also, the people looked like they were going to add the RGT addition onto the house, so there were huge cutouts on both floors of the SF on one side. And the shingles would have to have been all pried off, one at a time. And although they laid the Duracraft wood floor, which is beautiful flooring, it didn't look very good. They also put the Houseworks parquet flooring all through the 2nd floor, and that wasn't done very well either. That must have been at least 3 packages of parquet flooring adding up to about $45, but there was no way to peel it off without wrecking it. Believe me, if I could have, I would have taken both floors off to use somewhere else. The house had also been done in tape wire, the old, one-color tape wire. Just pulling it off so the house could be broken down was a nightmare in itself. None of that includes the kids having colored all over the house and the awful wallpaper that was glued to it and the trim all smashed. The house was on an RGT 32" base as well, so if it were taken off, it wouldn't have had a base to it. So all in all, I didn't really want to put in the time to try to rehab this one. I was just getting it for the staircase anyway, so I already knew the house was going in the dumpster. I figured I spent $50 and got a realistic $190 out of the stuff it came with if I planned to sell those pieces. In good condition, I would have paid about $30 each for the bay windows and about $100 for the room addition if I had gotten them off eBay, and $162 for the staircase if I had bought that off the Lawbre site. So it worked out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancydee Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 (edited) I was at Japan Fair in Washington today and they had a beautiful antique cultural miniatures display that had been donated as displays for the event. Since I am new and have post limits I made an album on imgur so I could keep the giant pictures for you guys https://imgur.com/a/qtrCp7I Edited July 8, 2018 by nancydee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 Thank you for sharing those photos, Nancy. I was once fortunate to see such a Girls' Day display at the Japanese Cultural Center in San Francisco many, many years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Proof that patience pays off. I pursued these two kits for four years. The owner initially did not want to sell them. She was afraid I only wanted them so I could flip them. I finally got both kits a few months ago. The price was right and I am happy! The kits are the Old Granville House from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" and the lobby of the Stratford Inn from "The Newhart Show." I have not seen many kits from this company, but considering the fact that they misspelled one kit and named the wrong TV show on the other, it makes me wonder. I have another kit from this company (secretly my favorite) that I will share in a few days. I build mostly pop culture type builds. These fit perfectly. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodentraiser Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Seems to me they made a lot of kits from famous books, movies, or TV shows. I remember the Norman Bates house, the Southern mansion from Gone with the Wind, and a couple others I can't bring to mind right now. Congrats on getting that house, though. They are few and very far between. I didn't even know they made the Stratford Inn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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