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Monday, September 12, 2011
I've had a few enquires about Harrods etc and if they are for sale. So here's a list of forthcoming items:
Harrods £400
Don Quixote & Windmill £75
Indian Pavilion With Elephant
Large Tudor Hall
Tudor / Medieval Watermill
Chester Row - Medieval / Tudor Shops
Medieval Tower
The Barracuda - Ghost Pirate Ship
Gouden Leeuw ( Golden Lion) - Dutch Seven Provences Ship
Victorian Carriages
Christmas Scene £25
Large Dining Tables £50 Each
Victorian Gothic Mansion
I've been away for the weekend and while rushing about I stopped off at a Dolls House Fair. It was packed out and I spent several hours and lots of money on some new bits and pieces for my upcoming projects. There were some wonderful dolls houses there I'd loved to have had a couple but they were so expensive! Beautiful craftsmanship and they've given me an idea for another Tudor style building. I'm working on a row of shops, a tower and a Victorian house at the moment but after that I'll try this new design.
I've had several emails this week asking if I'm going to be doing any more Victorian figures, yes I am. I needed some things from the show and I'm waiting for a few more things so hopefully I should have some more figures available at the start of October. I've managed to get hold of the new skirt design so I'll have some new style figures as well as the old ones.
Here's a picture of the new version.
Well here are the pictures of Harrods at last and I've had a lot of trouble trying to take them. The weather is turning here and I've had to dodge showers to try and take photos over the last few days.
As I've said I got the idea to create Harrods from the colour scheme I used on Claridges which turned out so nice I just had to expand the building. Adding a food hall and a ladies and gentleman's department to the original restaurant I've created this larger building. I've built a central spiral staircase to give a grand feeling to the store in keeping with the stunning original building. To this I've added a large skylight in the dinning room so the staircase can be viewed from above as well as being an attractive feature in the room. I also decided not to fix the large Harrods sign to the roof that way it can turn around to face the viewer.
A small progress report on Harrods, I've spent the last couple of days working on the roof and the front entrance to the building. After several changes I've managed to get both sorted out.
The inside of the shop is practically finished. I've the main shop sign to create, some smaller internal signs and a few items to make but it's almost done.
I've taken a couple of quick photos just to let you see how it's going. I might be able to unveil the completed shop next week.
Monday, September 05, 2011
Tudor
I'm currently working on a collection of Medieval / Tudor buildings the great Hall being the largest and first piece created. I'm trying to come up with some new and unusual designs. My second building is a watermill which I'm very pleased with it just looks right - if you know what I mean! The waterwheel does go around and it turns the millstone inside.
I'm part way through building a row of shops and I may do a church and a tower as well.
Saturday, September 03, 2011
I came across a bundle of dolls houses a few weeks ago as I'm always on the lookout for some thing new to customise. This is the first of these small plastic buildings I'm going to decorate. I'm sure those of you who are familiar with my very early work will recognise this as the very first building I ever customised.
As I had previously done a pair of figures as Don Quixote and his trusted servant Sancho Panza what better than to place them with the windmill!
I've been editing some more of my photos and wanted to add some things to my Western Page. Here's a few of the photos I've added today.
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