Welcome to my new blog all about miniatures. I built my first dollhouse about 13 years ago and did a couple rehabs after that, but nothing in at least ten years. So after many months of struggling with motivation and ideas, I decided to venture back to my first artistic undertaking and construct a dollhouse... or six... or twenty. We'll see what happens!
My starting project will be the Dura-Craft SF 555 San Franciscan with some minor modifications but no major bashing. I got it for a steal from a listing on craigslist about a week ago.
Right after bringing it home - Phantom cat is very curious
Anyway, yesterday I finally really started on my house. This has been sitting in a box for close to twenty years - the wood is slightly warped and reeks of stale cigarette smoke, so I've got some wood glue, an army of clamps, various things to use as weights, and some sanding sealer painting primer to start with.
In the beginning, it was going okay - until I discovered that I don't have the finger strength to hold the pieces together and weight them to lay flat at the same time.
So I got clamps out. Then came a bunch of experimenting to see how to get the clamps on without letting the walls buckle all crazy-like.
I have a backup plan though - if the walls are buckled when I go for the initial fitting (taping pieces instead of gluing), then I will add the wonky factor in and make it into an old rickety haunted house. So we'll see what happens.
As for that front door piece that's out in the open when I'm nowhere near ready to use it, I'm going to finish the door early so I can make a stained glass window in the door using Glorious Twelfth's stained glass technique, and I started that earlier while I was waiting on other supplies I needed to get started.
So now we're off and rolling. Hopefully there will be more exciting things to report in the next few days.
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