Garage with laundry and work bench

The addition of the garage with the workbench and the pottery studio is completed - except for the tiles on the roof and the light above the entrance of the studio.
With this addition the house is getting bigger... and intended to make something small again... haha.
I even had to make it in two pieces so that it would fit through the room door!
Definitely too many ideas I want to see in mini format 😉

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Carol gave me lots of inspiration for the workbench with her tutorials - and even sent me a few goodies I was not able to make, such as the perfect paint tray. Thanks my friend...
And I finally could use her tool and stacking boxes - yipee!!!

The pegboard is made from stuff one needs for circuits, copper lined on the back. Got it as a electronic rummage shop nearby.

Most of the tools (and especially the vice!) are from Superior Dollhouse, and Miniatures World.
Obviously all shipped via my friend Cindy in the U.S. - thanks Cindy!!


The garage door was tricky: the house is situated in a narrow road that does not allow the garage door to protrude into the road - otherwise one can never get into it with a car.
For a minute I thought about automatic openin/closing .. but only for a minute ;-) I mean, how crazy can you get ???

here the meachnism, made it with plastic ASA

  

This is what the addition-to-the-house project looks like right now - I wonder whether there is actually space for the car ?!

Pottery Studio and landscape

Not finished inside... lured by something else than bedrooms ;-)
Great that there are no deadlines in this project... hihi

South European gardens do have Cypress trees! No question: I want...
And I found a great tutorial that works in 1:12 as well.

I used the coarsest steelwool on the market, sprayed it brown, and then added NOCH moss green. Worked like a charm :-)

Southern European gardens do have plane trees (Platane) as well... mh....

Found a piece of wood (seems to come from special oak species, maybe a bonsai..) at the local nursery that could work. Poor thing is going through a tough few months now: the wood is still a little green and I hope that I can straighten out the stem. And then I will be in for a bit of punching and gluening... eventually.

And I made a climbing plant (to cover the cracks in the wall...): using paper covered wire which I could paint and glue on, a mini punch from the punch bunch and tissue paper, which I sprayed with all sorts of greens, a bit of red and orange. Wonderful work to do when 'hearing' TV....

I thought that adding a garage and potters studio is not going to make much of a difference - the project is big anyway... might as well.

I have decided on pottery studio because I did pottery many years back and know what that should look like. The nice part: here, things do not have to be perfect...

After getting that far, I noticed that I forgot old newspapers, which are quite important for a potter to cover pieces so that they can dry slowly. 

Another great turioal on how to print on tissue paper! 

I made some tools already - but need a different container...

and am quite ambitious now to get anywhere close to this potter's wheel...

What fun this is!