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20220416 Hong Kong: Through the Looking Glass. Hong Kong’s past and present are brought to life in an exhibition featuring 40 handmade miniature models, showcasing diversified facets of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Through the Looking Glass promises an immersion in the unique world of miniature art. Photo by Ben Cho
It took 25 days, but my LED lights arrived yesterday from China! Only 11 cents (US). Last night, I whipped out the soldering iron and did wiring for dollhouse kushiage shop.
The time spent waiting wasn't wasted. I was working on some lanterns, because, dammit, I wanted the lanterns to light up. The original instructions and materials intended for them to be made from styrofoam balls covered with paper, but if I made them that way, I would not be able to insert LED bulbs inside.
So, I ended up making them old-school style: by winding cloth-covered floral wire around a marker and shaping to coils by hand to taper at the ends. Then I covered them in Japanese washi paper. I added a small wire handle at the top, so I could hang them from hooks on the roof.
I wired the LEDs in parallel. They were 3v each, at 20mA. Since there's 5 of them wired in parallel, they could all run on a single CR-2032 battery, and I had several battery boxes in my stash. It technically works, but a load of 5 LEDS is a bit much for a single coin cell, so I'm expecting the lights to run down the battery pretty quickly. The battery box is only temporarily taped to the wires. If I can find a dual CR-2032 battery box wired in parallel, and not series, I'd probably want to use that instead.
Lighted dollhouses look entirely different at night. The photo here is actually a pretty good replica of what it's really like to stop at a kushiage shop at night. The Japan I saw (Tokyo) is all skyscrapers, multi-floor mega shopping complexes, bright lights, traffic jams and trains. These kinds of traditional shops still exist in places like Shibamata and Osaka.
I love Japan! Maybe on my next trip, I'll venture beyond Tokyo.
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Miniature Models :
1983 old fashioned food truck,
fresh fruit and vegetables
1978 lifebuoy, P & O Line
70's Bedford CF gelati van
Mr. Dairy Whip
Fairy floss, soft serve, ice cream,
This is a model of a bicycle. It was only about 8 inches long. Like the typewriters, it resides at the Ladysmith Guesthouse in Ullapool.
My thanks to the owners for allowing me to put it on a table.
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.
I dig this shot... a slightly different take on an HDR. The bubble is covered in an armada of fingerprints but shooting into the light with the polarizer seemed to get rid of most of them. Now that I look at this photo I wonder why miniature models don't have miniature weather systems. How cool would this thing be if there was a tiny rain cloud floating in it?
Details
5DII, 17mm, polarizer, fingerprints, -2.0.+2 exposures, twisted in Photomatix, taken down a peg in photoshop with a bit of desaturation.
This shot inspired by: Beard Papas
Soooooooo, for the Labor Day long weekend, we went to San Diego for a couple of days and got to go around sight seeing. We visited Balboa Park and hop around museums. ~ We were a little skeptical when we decided to try the Railroad Model Museum, but who knows that was the coolest museum. EVER!!!!
To check them out, visit their website at sd3r.org/
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Got to get away from hectic work days with hubby is the best : )