Roxxie2 Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 I received in the mail today, several of the Acme magnets to use in my Chantilly ! They are so darned cute! I wish they had a fridge or a sink to go with the cute stove! Cute Cute Cute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debra from Olde Cape Cod Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 I use to have a bunch of those-one was a side by side fridge. Wish I had brought those with me! Have fun Roxy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caseymini Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 They did make a kitchen sink, but it was a bit strange. The top of it looked normal, but the cabinet underneath slanted towards the back, making the sides triangular. I think that I have one somewhere. I was going to use it in the Fairfield and just build the bottom straight up and down. Another unfinished project... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat57 Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Kat, if you are using the drawer with the 24"(48 feet) as the vertical, you could easily do four stories. 1/2" = 1 foot. Even allowing for the thickness of the floors, you could have at least 11 foot ceilings. You didn't say what you were going to use for dividers. So I am guessing at the height. With 14" (28 feet across), you could have two small rooms or one large room on each level. You also didn't say if you were going to do staircases on each floor. That would cut into the room space. Of course, all of your rooms would be 6"(12 feet) deep. Maybe you could do a doorway at the back of each room, indicating that there is a staircase behind the rooms. This sounds like an interesting project. I can't wait to see you start. Oh,I am so confused!lol I have been doing 12 to 1 converting for so long that it's going to take me awhile to acclimate my brain to thinking about half scale conversions! I'm one who is very fond of words,but anything related to numbers gives me a huge headache!lol But,wow,4 stories? (Yes,I have the drawer turned so that the longer side will be it's height-24"/48'.) I would have a real blast with that,because I could never fit a comparable (4 story)12 scale build in my real home. I plan to try making some 24 scale items (A bed,couch,etc.) to get myself used to it. I may get some balsa wood for the floors/dividers or maybe I could use foamcore? I'm honestly not crazy for staircases,so I won't bother with them. If I could do that many levels(4),maybe I could even do several small 2 room apartments....! Thanx,Casey and Holly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caseymini Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Kat, the foam core would be better and cost less than balsa. If you are worried about strength, you could use two layers of foam core. What you can do to hold up the floors is measure and put 1/24 scale crown molding at the height that you want the ceilings. That will offer support along the edges of all three sides. If you put a wall in the middle of some of the floors, that will also add support. Good luck! This is going to be a fun project! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 False doors in 1:24 are really easy (I would use basswood rather than balsa, though) and on the back walls would give the illusion of more depth and the stairs could be there, behind the doors. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fov Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Roxy, which stove did you get - the modern one or one of the old fashioned ones? I have this one and am planning to one day use it with a retro-looking fridge I got from the miniature shop (I think it's a German import meant for G scale... I'll snap a picture if I can find it!) and a Marx kitchen sink. Also there was a neat retro fridge on eBay the other day: http://www.ebay.com/itm/dollhouse-miniature-1-24-scale-refrigerator-NIP-/181433401912 And Cassidy Creations once had a monitor-top refrigerator, but I don't see it on the Scale Designs website right now so maybe it's discontinued. Anyway, the Marx stuff is great if you're doing an older kitchen (which would look great in the Chantilly!) If you are doing modern, though, the side by side Acme fridge is awesome. I've used that one my Fairfield and also painted one "stainless" for the Queen Anne rowhouse. I agree with Casey on the Acme sink, it's weird. I have one also that I might use just for the sink part, and make my own cabinet. But it would work just as well to make your own sink out of a Smuckers jelly packet or something like that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I need Kathie to teach me how to use a digital camera, and then I need to get one with a macro lens so I can share pictures of the stuff I made for the Fairfields. I made the kitchen sink from a jelly packet that looks like this 1:12 one in my stash: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fov Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Holly - I just bought this digital camera last week -- takes beautiful pictures and the macro is automatic so you don't have to fiddle with the menu, it turns itself on when you get close enough to the subject. Just saying. (Only downside is that it doesn't come with a memory card or a USB cord, you have to buy those separately.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Memory card? USB card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalesq Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Emily, I have two different ACME stoves, the retro and the 50s styles. I was just curious, have you removed the magnets from the back of yours, or do you just leave them and hide that it sticks out a little from the wall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fov Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Memory card? USB card? The memory card is what your pictures are stored on inside the camera. The USB cord is needed to connect the camera to the computer, so you can transfer the pictures off the memory card and on to the computer. Emily, I have two different ACME stoves, the retro and the 50s styles. I was just curious, have you removed the magnets from the back of yours, or do you just leave them and hide that it sticks out a little from the wall? I've left the magnets on mine. In the Fairfield there's a piece of trim up against the stove and I made it a little bigger than necessary to hide the magnet. Both fridges are in a corner with cabinets beside them so you can't tell there's a magnet there (the fridge is much shallower than the cabinets, so leaving the magnet on has the added bonus of bumping it out from the wall a bit). Actually, for the rowhouse fridge, the cabinet I built to go around it accommodates the magnet. The basswood across the back is the same depth as the magnet, so the whole thing sits flush against the wall. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalesq Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Thanks Emily! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fov Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Haven't ordered from them, but Stoneworks looks like it could be a good resource for half scale doors and windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Summersethomes Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I have a question for you guys, when you work in that scale do you divide by 24 so you get the correct scale? I know that when you work in 1/12 scale you divide by 12 right? but I get confused by half scale (ps I got a little house from the thrift store that's as ugly as sin and I want to halloweenie it up so that's why Im picking your brains) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fov Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Yep, divide by 24! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I like to think of scales as 1:24 (1/2 inch = 1 foot) [A 5-foot-long table in real life would be 2-1/2 inches long in 1:24 scale] 1:12 (1 inch = 1 foot) [A 5-foot-long table in real life would be 5 inches long in 1:12 scale] I think better in familiar parts of an inch rather than twelfths or twenty-fourths of something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debra from Olde Cape Cod Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 I think of the size for 1/12th scale and divide by two....(and I didn't even take the new math! !LOL!) I also measure with an answer like "It's 23 1/2 plus three little lines..." Guess who gets to hold the dumb end of the measuring tape..... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fov Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Debra, I totally do that "three little lines" thing! When I try to think in fractions something gets lost between the ruler and my brain. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 I also measure in "little lines". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leafie Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I bought one of the little houses from Michaels during Christmas. I think it's half scale. The half scale furniture seems to big and the quarter scale seems to little. Help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 The puzzle houses aren't really to a regular scale, are they? The 1:24 furniture sets I got from HBS were actually too small for the Fairfield, and are closer to 1:32; you might try a set of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leafie Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Thanks so much. I haven't heard of 1:32 scale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leafie Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I see a lot of cars in that scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selkie Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I have two items for my current 1:24 scale project that don't match each other in proportion, imo. It seems that sometimes different manufacturers use different measurements for their products. See the discrepancy below. You just have to be careful and measure things out according to your preference. Always remember it's the illusion we go for, not perfection since real life isn't ever perfect. Perfect would look unnatural. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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