Some of you followed the making of "Simpatico", the scratch miniature mansion for my new found daughter's 48th birthday present. Last year I posted a thread on rebuilding an antique china cabinet.
Here we go again. Her fiftieth birthday is december 8th. We had a father/daughter vacation in Kansas City back in May. On the last day, we stopped in this unique shop which mostly had antiques for sale but also an upscale restaurant on the top floor and had lunch.
While there, we browsed through the store and we both spotted this corner curio cabinet that somebody had built poorly. Although the construction was really bad, as was the finish, it was a striking piece of furniture. She really liked it. It was, of course, waaaaay overpriced for what it was, so I took some photos and decided to make her one myself from scratch.
I have purchased the materials and I was thinking I would post the build on my master's threads. It will have a lot of processes relative to modeling, including two cameos of Gail and her husband Forrest which I will sculpt in an early Gilberti pattern in epoxy putty. It will be similar to the flats you see at a figure show.
Is anybody interested in seeing this built? Here is the poorly made one I photographed in Kansas City.
The Bronze patina on the front of the curio is something I have been recreating on statues, etc. in my dioramas since the seventies.
As all you fathers out there know, I could never refuse Gail anything she asked. I was just curious if anybody was interested in watching me try to scratch this.
Bob
Here we go again. Her fiftieth birthday is december 8th. We had a father/daughter vacation in Kansas City back in May. On the last day, we stopped in this unique shop which mostly had antiques for sale but also an upscale restaurant on the top floor and had lunch.
While there, we browsed through the store and we both spotted this corner curio cabinet that somebody had built poorly. Although the construction was really bad, as was the finish, it was a striking piece of furniture. She really liked it. It was, of course, waaaaay overpriced for what it was, so I took some photos and decided to make her one myself from scratch.
I have purchased the materials and I was thinking I would post the build on my master's threads. It will have a lot of processes relative to modeling, including two cameos of Gail and her husband Forrest which I will sculpt in an early Gilberti pattern in epoxy putty. It will be similar to the flats you see at a figure show.
Is anybody interested in seeing this built? Here is the poorly made one I photographed in Kansas City.
The Bronze patina on the front of the curio is something I have been recreating on statues, etc. in my dioramas since the seventies.
As all you fathers out there know, I could never refuse Gail anything she asked. I was just curious if anybody was interested in watching me try to scratch this.
Bob
