#**miniatures

[aimmyarrowshigh]

13-hour clock progress shot -- made of paper and cardstock, although the pendulum will hopefully be metal if I don't screw up the soldering job, and I'm also aiming to cap the clockface with glow-in-the-dark resin once it's placed. Plus all the painting/aging/etc. But I'm still already pretty dang proud.

[aimmyarrowshigh]

new dollhouse idea: brewster house from arsenic & old lace (complete with two bodies in the windowseat)

[aimmyarrowshigh]

@and-classics​ replied to your post: “🌻”

" figuring out how to “flatten” 3D objects so that I can make them out of paper" - did you just trial and error your way through that one, or did you have any resources that you used? bc i am coming to realise my spatial reasoning in that area is at negative values which is real awkward for someone who does 3d crafts and i have no idea what to do about it 🤯

I usually start with trial and error and then if I get REALLY stuck, I'll google a really basic (like... primary school) geometry tutorial for the biggest/flattest shape of the object I'm working with. Anything with circles is my biggest weakness because you just need to math circles and I hate it. I also do a lot of building objects upward instead of outward? Like, making a relief, rather than trying to build a hollow object, for me, is easier, because I can see layer by layer where the next pieces need to be adjusted. Apparently that’s not the ~traditional~ way to do things, but I really like dimensional papercraft lightboxes and stuff that use that technique, so, whatever.

From my ig --

The ~mystical cabinet~ on the left, I made with more traditional flat “carpentry” (or like, singular pieces, cut to size and scale, and then assembled... it’s wrinkly because I used the wrong type of sealant afterwards UGH).

But this decorative door and doorframe, I made as a relief (it’s 26 layers iirc at its thickest) and it turned out WAY better, especially in terms of being sure that everything was sized correctly because I could make adjustments as I went. The cabinet is squared off properly and everything, but it was a lot more stressful to make. The way that I put the door and the frame together “should” have been done with flat building, probably, but it works for what I want the way I did it, so I’m fine with it.

And then this 1:144-scale (one inch = twelve feet) dollhouse for my dollhouse is a combo of both, I made the shell using flat geometry or whatever but then all of the detailing is done in layers of relief instead of trying to fit them into the actual build because I. don’t know how. Also the dormer windows and the gable or whatever it’s called were THE WORST to try to flatten out and then also make super tiny. THE WORST.