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<\/p>\nThere’s a thread on Figurvore about one’s first attempts at set pieces compared to one’s current efforts. It got me thinking about how I used to make sets.<\/p>\n
When I first started in 1:6 scale, I built movable sets on my desktop or more permanent ones in bookshelves. I had very few backdrops and\/or set pieces, so I mostly made do by repurposing commonly available items. One of my favorite examples of such reuse was the jelly bean seat.<\/p>\n
To make the jelly bean seat, I started off using a short cylindrical container for binder clips. I brought it home from the office because it looked about the right size to serve as a table or ottoman or something.<\/p>\n
When I got it home, I discovered that it was, in fact, the right height. However, the flexible plastic bowed under the weight of a doll, so I needed something to balance, solidify and add support. <\/p>\n
It being in the vicinity of Easter, I hit upon the idea of filling the container with jelly beans. Hey, why not? I reasoned that they were attractively colored and also unspoilable [being made mostly of wax :p ]. I filled the container with a pleasing series of jelly beans, then glued the top on with my best friend ever, hot glue.<\/p>\n
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Almost a decade later, I do purchase set pieces specifically made for 1:6 scale, but I also still make my own pieces with creative thinking and HOT GLUE. In fact, the latest survey of my set pieces includes quite a few that I have made\/reused myself: stools [carpentry scraps], bookcase [bamboo drawer organizer], counters [wooden boxes], door [photo album], fainting couch [jewelry box], sink [paperclip holder], toilet [novelty gag], bed [doll box covered with 1:1 scale pillow case], chair [cell phone holder], ottoman [music box], table [plastic jar lids and carpentry scraps], window shade [bamboo placemat]…and probably some other stuff that I’m forgetting. <\/p>\n
At this point in my life, I will only buy a set piece premade because I can’t approximate it myself [or I’m too lazy to]. Though I have many nifty pieces that were commercially manufactured [I adore<\/em> my yellow Rement side table with working lamp!], I almost always prefer my simple, homemade approximations. For example, I recently found myself saying, "Why do I have this Kitchen Littles counter unit with drawers when I have two homemade counter units made from wooden boxes fronted with cardstock that do the job just fine?"<\/p>\n This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1465845.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I’d prefer it if you’d comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a thread on Figurvore about one’s first attempts at set pieces compared to one’s current efforts. It got me thinking about how I used to make sets. When I first started in 1:6 scale, I built movable sets on my desktop or more permanent ones in bookshelves. I had very few backdrops and\/or set… Continue reading Set pieces from the depths of time, part 1, 03\/24\/04: the jelly bean seat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[746,704],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-16-scale-stuff-i-made","tag-sets-16-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5010,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}