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Overview of tutorials, tips & trics in the order they appear here for easier searching:
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- Making Flexible Molds
- Imaged Metal Signs
- Great tip for scratched plastic windows or accessories
- Bows
- Homemade Air Dry Clay
- Miniatures Scale Calculator
- Pleating (tea)towels
- Wooden Parasol (Working!)
- Weaving with a selfmade loom
- Weathered floorboards/wood
- Marbeling
- Tiles
- Jug
- Photography
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Friday, January 26, 2013
MAKING FLEXIBLE MOLDS (by me)
For duplicating frames, bottles or whatever you want duplicate, flexible molds are ideal.
If you like to know how to make those, you can find my way as well as an alternative method here.
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
IMAGED METAL SIGNS (by me)
If you would like to know how to make metal signs like this (due to copyright issues, only copyrightfree image is provided, this is the bottom-one), find out here.
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Sunday, January 6, 2013
GREAT TIP FOR SCRATCHED PLASTIC WINDOWS OR ACCESSORIES
Do you have plastic windows in a house or roombox you've build? Or have plastic accessories like vases and so on? Then you know how easily plastic scratches and becomes dull and not very nice looking.
Wish to know how to get rid of them and give them a nice polish that makes them bright and like new again? With only that what you have in your home?
I think you might, here's how.
What you need:
- toothpaste
- window cleaner
- (old) piece of cloth
Instructions:
Source: Airmighty Megascene magazine, Spring 2011 back to overview
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
BOWS
Andrea Thieck has a great tutorial for miniature bow making, for two kinds.
Simple & the little bit more complex bow:
You can find the instructions on her blog, click here for the simple bow.
For the other bow, you go here to make the tool for it, and here to make the bow itself. Enjoy!
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Saterday, April 28, 2012
HOMEMADE AIR DRY CLAY
I just saw this great video on Kathi's blog Beautiful Mini Blessings and just had to place it here too. How nice is it to be able to make your own clay and how fun is it that it also makes it a cheap way of using clay?!
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December 2012
UPDATE: unfortunately the website from Al is shutdown and this miniatures scale calculator no longer available. I hope Al's okay, don't know the reason his site is offline.
I searched for an alternative, but that wasn't easy. This is what I did find: the inches-decimal-chart (the one Al had/made(?), but via Google that found it on other websites) in a reasonable size so you can still look up fraction inches to calculate to cm's.
It's all not as easy as it was with Al's site, but I'm happy I found a way again since I used it very often!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
MINIATURES SCALE CALCULATOR
This is a tip for something I use frequently and want to share with you for hopefully as much enjoyment as I have with it. With this calculator you can easily convert those unfamiliar measurements like inches or millimeters (depending what system you're used to) to what you dó know. On the link (below the picture) you also find a chart with an overview of fractions and decimals which you can use to know what 1/16" is in decimals for example to be able to fill in the calculator.
This Miniature Scale Calculator was developed by Al from The Art of Dollhouse Miniatures. A very interesting site and with loads of other handy tips and information.
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PLEATING (TEA)TOWELS