I have been collecting miniature (1/12th scale – 1″ = 1′) books and book kits for several years, many of them from Ann Vanture at www.paperminis.com . When she offerred the kit shown above, the McLaughlin Brothers Bookshelf, I ordered it immediately. It sat in a bin for several months, patiently waiting for me to take it from kit state to completion. (Storage bins feature heavily in this blog ~ have you noticed?)
I started this project in early July, just after completion of the quarter-scale green house. There were three major steps: Build the basic bookcase; install the ceiling and wallpapers, glue down the rugs & flooring paper; glue the outside graphics in place on the exterior back of the unit. The back of the bookcase suddenly becomes a very decorative dollhouse and it’s interior is ready to be furnished with 1/144th scale furniture. Still, its intended use is as a bookcase. As I blogged earlier this month, all went well until I carefully glued the wonderfully detailed “front facade” paper on Upside Down! I set the shelves aside, contacted the creator of the kit for replacement artwork and began sorting the pieces of my next
I am so grateful to Ann; she quickly mailed a replacement of her original art work (for a very low fee), and I was able to complete my bookshelf today!
Here is a view of the interior, before I packed it full of tiny books (i.e. “short stories”)
And here it is, holding a portion of my collected books (almost all of them with readable pages!)
