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Completed Billy DIY dollhouse "Naniwa's skewer shop"

I'm done! This project took 4 weeks. I could have done this faster if I stuck to the instructions and made it exactly as-is, but it was always my intention to increase the size to 1:18 scale, and to do a deluxe version of the kit.

 

This pic is taken from the side, and shows the following improvements:

 

1) Paving stones made from egg cartons, trimmed, painted, sealed with clearcoat and grouted with spackling paste.

 

2) Added a samurai armor gachapon. I found this in a gacha machine at Yodobashi Akiba, on the same night that I bought this dollhouse kit at Volks Hobby Paradise Akihabara. I initially wasn't sure what to do with it, but when I did a dry fit of it next to the kushiage shop, something clicked and I liked the look.

 

3) Created a bamboo pot for the plant. The instructions were vague about what to do with the plant. Was I supposed to drill a hole in the base and just stick it in? I had leftover bamboo from a bamboo mat used in an earlier project, so I made a pot by wrapping heavy paper around a marker to make a cylinder, and then wrapping a strip of bamboo mat around it.

 

 

 

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Uploaded on April 24, 2017
Taken on April 23, 2017