MitchyMooMiniatures
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In 2009 I decided to build a 12th scale pub to house a collection of action figures owned by my Husband. By 2010, frustrated by the lack of contemporary miniatures available, I began making the accessories I needed to furnish the pub. This blog chronicals everything I make and how I make them.
MitchyMooMiniatures
3y ago
I was lucky enough to be gifted a 3D resin printer for my Birthday last year. This was primarily to help me design and make 12th scale handles for the furniture I make that are near impossible to buy.
It soon became apparent that the realms of possibility for my miniature making had opened up a hundred fold. I'm not a sculptor so 3D printing allowed me to design and make organic forms with a degree of accuracy.
But fear not dear reader. If you want to make an eggbox, you don't need a 3D printer. I follow a wonderful mininaturist called HMS2 on YouTube, who creates amazing mininatures wi ..read more
MitchyMooMiniatures
3y ago
Some of the most mundane, but essential household items seem to take a huge amount of effort to make. I'd been scouring the internet for a long time trying to work out how to make those colourful, transparent toothbrushes. The answer is surprisingly simple but long winded.
I touched on this technique in a previous post but this is a more detailed approach. This is how I make them and not, necessarily, the best way to make them.
If, like me, you intend to make a lot of these brushes, the initial outlay for UV resin, a UV nail lamp, UV resin dye and silicone mold may not seem so onerous. S ..read more
MitchyMooMiniatures
4y ago
The lockdown over the last three months has prevented me buying any new materials. Most of the companies I use were closed altogether, some provided mail order but I felt uneasy burdening an already busy Royal Mail with 'non critical' deliveries.
It occured to me that I don't utilise readily available materials around the house as much as I could. I have a pretty good printer/scanner and an abundance of full scale food packaging that I could scale down for use in miniature. Anything bigger than my A4 scanner bed proved a pain; cutting the packaging up, scanning and then restitching it in desig ..read more
MitchyMooMiniatures
4y ago
I've added some new, free to download printies to the blog. Click the 'Printies' link at the top of this page to view. Click on the individual photograph of the item you want and it will open a new page from my Google drive. There, you can download, save and print them.
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Have a grand day
Pepper  ..read more
MitchyMooMiniatures
5y ago
For the last couple of weeks, I've dedicated some time to my life-size garden. It's something I've neglected in favour of miniature making and an area that really needed improving. Since my house faces North-East, the light is poor and prone to strong winds from the coast. I opted for fake lawn, (which looks amazingly realistic and has won many awards at the RHS Chelsea Show ), and a good dollop of advice from my neighbour who knows all there is to know about plants. The turf was removed just before I went on holiday. Almost four weeks of back-breaking work later I can't relax for long ..read more
MitchyMooMiniatures
5y ago
I've done very little mini making over the last couple of weeks. But I thought I'd post a 'what I've been up to' before I head off to the US of A tomorrow. The Gothic Manor is inching at glacial pace towards being weather tight. I designed a pair of double doors which incorporate the same Gothic tracery that appears on other parts of the building, in the hope that it will bring it all together. I can't decide how to finish them - paint, stain, weather them down. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated! As you can see, the stonework is the same as it was last year. In true miniaturist fa ..read more