After a long hiatus, Amazing Miniatures is back to blogging again. Hey all, I am still alive! I’ve been away from the mini scene for several years due to some relocation, new jobs, and starting up grad school again. I think it was a good time to take a break at that time due to burn out as well. So a lot of real life has been deterring me from my mini life and now ...
Amazing Miniatures Post This is another one of those entries I’ve been meaning to write and post up ASAP as it was happening, but you know, life. It’s going to be a long and full of text. You were warned. Tough Decisions You may or may not have noticed that I am no longer shipping internationally. It was a hard decision to...
Amazing Miniatures Post After some user feedback and working on 3 different prototypes, I’ve settled on a more refined and easier to assemble version of the VIKAesque wood kit. In addition to an upgraded design, the whole thing is now cut entirely from Baltic Birch plywood (previous version was a hybrid of bamboo and birch...
Amazing Miniatures Post Oh boy, it’s been a while. Do you miss me? I sure miss everyone! I know my last few posts lacked any substance and I tried to get back into the rhythm for the holidays, but eventually decided to just take a break from miniatures and this blog for a bit. Hope you didn’t mind. 😉 I’ve been telling fri...
Amazing Miniatures Post This was created by ElementProductions for McDonald’s. Go watch it here (link is no longer available). It’s a silly commercial, but I like it! I see a few custom pieces I made as some reseller stuff and some from the lovely minimodernistas as well. Woohoo! P.S. Here’s your chance to win free mini st...
Amazing Miniatures Post I’ve had a few friendly notes from the folks at Cardboard Safari in my public spaces about the cardstock deer head that you may have caught wind of. Here’s a comment on my facebook page: And some comments on my blog: (FYI, he did apologize for this) And here’s the conversation via Etsy: Why am I a m...
Amazing Miniatures Post Please see the photography and write up for the assembly instructions for the deer head. Some of you may have already gotten it (nice!). Some will get it soon depending on your location and which batch your order was made in. As always, if you have any questions, please email me! And while all that ...
Amazing Miniatures Post I want to direct your attention to an article in the New York Times, written by best selling author J. Courtney Sullivan. In it, she writes about the love affair she has with dollhouse miniatures, that so many of us can relate to. But most surprisingly and significantly (for me) at the very end of t...
Showing off a prototype for a dollhouse miniature cardboard deer trophy head where I modeled a deer from scratch and sliced it up to miniaturize it. As a treat to my email subscribers, I hinted at a project I was working on in the first newsletter sent out in July. The picture above was what I included in the newsletter. I was intentionally ambiguous. I didn’t want to make it too obvious, lest things did not turn out as expected. 😉 But I am sur...
Amazing Miniatures Post This is a fairly wordy post. You have been warned. More often than not, I am finding myself designing pieces through CAD or 3D modeling software like Cinema 4D or Google Sketchup and then fabricating it through laser cutting and (soon to be) 3D printing. It’s not how most miniaturists do it, but as ...