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Resin Tinting and Ebay Experiments

I mentioned to a few mini buddies that I am experimenting with tinting my resin casts. As you can see from the images, some of the results are pretty horrible. I bought the generic craft store tints (the set for $30) and not the one that was specifically made for the resin brand, because it was way […]

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Building the Nyne House Part 4: Main Room Flooring

This is going to be a long post with lots of pictures. While it is still work on the Nyne, this is largely an experiment/how-to-guide using Band-It wood veneer strips, wood filler, and wood stain. When conceptualizing the Nyne, my initial idea was to have the floors be removable. To plan for that, I cut […]

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Building the Nyne Modern Dollhouse: First Floor Walls

Building the Nyne House Part 2: First Floor Walls

These pictures have been sitting in my hard drive for a few days, but I only got around to editing and posting them until now. Its not much, its just putting up the first floor, load bearing walls for the Nyne. I used polyurethane Gorilla Glue and “nailed” in toothpicks (pictured above) to join the two pieces together. […]

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Dry Fitting the Nyne Styrofoam Modern Dollhouse

Building the Nyne House Part 1: Dry Fit

Can I tell you how annoying it was to cut 3/4″ thick foam with a hobby knife? Its not as horrible as hand sanding, but it was pretty obnoxious. My cuts are not clean or perfectly square because it was all done by hand. Of course, it wasn’t until AFTER I cut everything out that I […]

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