I received a miniature kit for Christmas as i'd been looking into buying one. They include everything you'll need to make the whole thing; even glue, tweezers and a small screw driver if it has a music box.
Mine has instructions written in English, some don't but all the steps have pictures as well so they are easy to follow.
The booklet came with wall paper and flooring designs but I chose to use my own paper for the walls and make wooden flooring inside and bricks outside instead.
The walls are nice and thick, I think they're make of mdf.
I didn't use the glue they include as I was more comfortable using my own.
To neaten all the edges I used a nail file, this also got rid of any overflow of glue.
With all of the elements I tried to lay them out with what they going to be used with, so here I've put all the window frames near where they needed to be glued.
This meant that I didn't use the wrong pieces, not so much with the window pieces but a lot of the chair and display pieces were very similar .
This window caused a little fuss, it came in two pieces the larger of which was very snug making it difficult to fit in and not buckle. The bottom ledge had to be adjusted anyway but this meant that not all of it was left green as it had to be sanded down
Because I was making wooden flooring i decided to glue the walls together first so i could trace exactly how much space I had. This would make it less fiddly when making the floor.
I used the floor design they included to ensure the walls were straight. I didn't use this as a template for my flooring as it would be larger than the available space, if you can see the design goes under the walls.
The "roof" has a viewing window, they provide plastic to cover it but no template so I had to very carefully cut round the edges to make it fit snugly. I also found it difficult to glue this down, thus why there are multiply objects holding it down.
This was a small fence at the back of the outside area, I didn't glue the top and bottom bars perfectly so when I added the middle I needed to use a hair tie to hold it together while the glue dried
The inside flooring was made of wooden drinks stirrers, cut into different lengths to make it more realistic. I used tacky glue for this, the brand i used dries slowly enough that i could adjust them if needed for a while but held them in place if not.
I left it overnight to dry then sanded the surface to get rid of any glue residue and even everything out. Then cut off the overhang, it was easier for me to have the pieces go longer than needed then trim once dry instead of cutting then perfectly to size first.
The lighting was a LED and you use different beads to make the shade, some of the openings were very small so feeding two wires through was a tad difficult.
Overall the lighting was the fiddliest part as you had to attach it in such a way so it could not be seen, it was difficult to glue the wire to the plastic.
This was my set up, not ideal for filming as the camera shakes a lot and there's no place to set things aside to dry while working on other things.
These make a raised edge for the whole piece, they came with a brick print out but i decided to leave the white as it makes it more of a display item
Two of them have ledges, this is made if easier to glue the base on
One piece did brake but it was easy to fix. I was surprised that this was the only broken piece as everything was packaged very snugly and a few of the wooden components were fragile.
I didn't use all of the print outs they included, they had things like magazines, posters and leaves for a small plant, because they were blurred but the menu was cute and really detailed.
Thanks for reading, stay tuned for part two
If you'd like to see a short video of me making this feel free to visit my Youtube video..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDr90DMNkaA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCabGMVS8nrvr0DKTbQaBaHw
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