Tag: accessories

• Art For Sale

  

  And it’ll be the kind you understand. There were a number of trade tables at the WA Miniatures Association weekend show. They were selling furniture, clothing, foods, art supplies, and building materials…all in very small sizes. I counted paper craft and modelling, doll clothing, accessories, furniture, food platters, and any number of other temptations. I…

  Dick Stein

  September 4, 2025

  Collecting, Dioramas, display, Doll Houses, finances, internet, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling exhibitions, Modelling materials, prototypes, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  accessories, model furniture, trade tables

• The Scale Sketch

  

  Versus the final model painting. Which is better? Which is more authentic? Which is likely to get you a medallion on a ribbon at the Big Local Scale Model Exhibition? I think we all know the answer to that one… But not every model is destined to be under the eye of the Judgemental Committee.…

  Dick Stein

  September 22, 2023

  1:72 scale, design, Dioramas, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling Supplies, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  abstracts, accessories, details, sketches

• The Suitcasers

  

  Do you remember seeing a 1960’s George Peppard movie called ” The Carpetbaggers ” ? A rough sketch of Howard Hughes and quite racy at the time. It’s title was taken from the scornful name given to Northern exploiters who flooded into the American South after the Civil War. Conmen, graspers, and get-rich-quick merchants…rather in…

  Dick Stein

  October 21, 2019

  Miniature Philosophy, Modelling exhibitions, Modelling materials, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Tools, Uncategorized, workflow, Workshop

  accessories, carpetbaggers, importers, model show, Tools