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Hello! I wanted to stop in and introduce myself. I have always wanted to build a dollhouse, especially because I am in love with the Victorian style, and live in a plain ol' ranch style house. I can safely say I don't have the room to take up this hobby, but I have never let that stop me before lol. I JUST picked up the Orchid (of course) and am ready to dive in. I have experience building various miniatures with polymer clay, and have built (so) many plastic model robots. I also have some experience in woodworking. I feel this will be a fun hobby to start, and to use for posing my various figures!

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Hi Mandi.  Welcome to the little family.   I did the Orchid as my second house.  It's so pretty.  I kind of did my own thing with it though.  Changed out windows and door and left out the dormers.  You will enjoy it.  

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Thank you for the warm welcome! I am on the nature coast, close-ish to Tampa, I would say. I am getting started on my build today. I'll be leaving it pretty close to normal with additional exterior features like some clapboard and window boxes, omitting the stairs, and making my own windows...maybe some "stained glass"

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My MIL lives in Sun City Center, east of Ruskin.  In my section of the Team Arthur building blog:  http://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/forum/?app=blog&module=blogs&controller=entry&id=59 and http://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/forum/?app=blog&module=blogs&controller=entry&id=60 I describe how I made my first-ever "stained glass" window; I gave up on Liquid Lead and mixed a lead color with acrylic paints from the tubes and painted that on for lead lines.

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The colors are actually translucent.

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16 minutes ago, Summersethomes said:

Hi and welcome to the family, Im in Ohio and have never been to Florida but I hear it's nice.  hope to see your finished project and I love robots you have to post a few too

 

 

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Marisa :)

Its HOT in Florida lol! Here is a pic of one of the robots I have built, along with some scale minis I am WORKING on, they need a lot of work still. Teeny upholstery is hard. Mr. Zaku is 1:48, and the furniture is 1:12, but whatever ;) http://imgur.com/a/G5XgE

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On 7/12/2017, 9:37:49, nyanXnyan said:

Its HOT in Florida lol! Here is a pic of one of the robots I have built, along with some scale minis I am WORKING on, they need a lot of work still. Teeny upholstery is hard. Mr. Zaku is 1:48, and the furniture is 1:12, but whatever ;) http://imgur.com/a/G5XgE

I dont know how you did it but I love that robot, any tips on how to make it if I wanna make one for a diorama?

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