1/12th Scale Antiques Shop

1/12th scale antiques shop

This 1/12th scale antiques shop was made along with all of the contents by Roy Louis Taylor (1929 – 2000). The following video shows me reassembling the shop after a thorough clean of every part of the model. The flap on the letter box has “Letters” etched into the brass and opens for post. The … Read more

1/8th Scale Cake Shop

miniature cake shop

This miniature 1/8th Scale Cake Shop was made some time ago by Nigel Taylor and Eileen Careless. The 1/8th scale cake shop was designed to hang on the wall as a 3 dimensional picture. The shop itself is just 80mm deep with a board at the bottom protruding a further 50mm that forms the pavement … Read more

Model Shop Cabinet

The idea was to create a cabinet for Beatrice in the style of a shop. There wasn’t any desire to make this any particular scale, what we wanted was a cabinet of a certain size and so that dictated the dimensions. 14.5 inches (365mm) wide and 13.5 inches (340mm) high (to the top of the … Read more

1/12th Scale Globe

The end result displayed at the moment in what I describe as the model cube. I must admit that having thought about making a 1/12th scale globe my first problem was either making or finding a ball of the correct size. After some scanning through antique books I had a basic idea in my head … Read more

Bog Oak Chair

This page gives an overview of a 1/12th scale bog oak chair that I made some years ago. Some years ago I was given some pieces of bog oak, roughly 1″ x 1″ x 4″. I painted the ends with PVA glue and placed them in the eaves of my shed and forgot about them. … Read more