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Make a Miniature House Model
In this tutorial I make a miniature version of an actual house. And I show you how to do it step-by-step. You can use these techniques to make your own miniature house , even one of the home you live in.
We use simple materials and a good portion of it is just foam board.
And at the bottom of the page I have a video you can watch on this project.
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Start by Taking Pictures of the house you want to miniaturize. Lots of pictures from a lot of different angles.
One of the first things you have to decide is what size you want your miniature house to be. Here is the beginning of our miniature. It is about 1 1/2 feet by 2 feet.
Knowing the size of your miniature house is important so we can get the scale right and make all the pieces right.
For instance, if you want your house to be 1/10 the size of the actual house it makes it much easier to figure things out.
We are going with about 1/22 scale.
Now do lots of measurements on the actual house and do drawings on paper so you can figure out the size of things in the model.
Break the model down into flat planes. Figure out the size of each flat surface.
And here we go. This is the first piece. It is one whole wall of the house. And it is 1/22 the size of the actual wall on the house. From here our measurements tell us where to put the windows and doors.
You might think that this bay window section of the house is a challenge but we can break it down so it is quite easy. It really is just three flat surfaces that extend out from the house.
So here are those three surfaces.
And here we go. Those three surfaces are glued together and into the front wall to form the front of the house.
Ok, you know to build all the flat major surfaces of the house with foamboard - being very aware of the dimensions of everything.
You can do the whole house like this and it will come out great. People will really be amazed by it.
But we are going to continue on and I am going to show you how to make the detail work on the house.
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If you are looking for high quality, archive quality or you are looking for a backing for photographs you should use an acid free foam board It is more expensive per sheet though.
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