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The boys put in long, hard days keeping crime and chaos at bay... so, when they're off shift and they need time to unwind back at HQ from their battles with apes, super-villains, alien invasions, criminals, etc. , what do they do?
A: They sit on their custom sofas and read vintage comic books!
I think I'm bitten by the miniature bug again. I've worked in many scales, from 1:48 to 1:6 throughout my lifetime. I recently discovered Jen's Dollhouse Miniatures site and found a lot of cool do-it-yourself projects. It's not all girly-girly... action figures need comfort and entertainment too!
Since everything is made from scratch, you can scale up or scale down, depending on the size of your figures.
When I saw the comics on her site, I thought it was a fabulous idea! I made a few changes...
1) Scanned back covers, since it's not much more effort, and means you can look at the comic from all sides
2) Used my own (and my brother's) genuine comic book collection from the 70's. These issues are circa 1970-1971 and were childhood favorites. They fit the "MEGO" period.
3) Cut out strips from the Sunday paper and filled the miniature comic books with comics, albeit non-authentic, non-period ones.
4) Chose tiger-striped couch fabric, because it screams "sooooooo 70's!"
By the way, the TV is an old souvenir from Frontier Village, in San Jose, CA, a now-defunct amusement park. Found it in the garage, in a box labelled "weird toys" where some of our toys were packed up decades ago....
Jen's websites: Jennifers*Free Dolls House and Miniature Printables
let's build a dollhouse sofa
A: They sit on their custom sofas and read vintage comic books!
I think I'm bitten by the miniature bug again. I've worked in many scales, from 1:48 to 1:6 throughout my lifetime. I recently discovered Jen's Dollhouse Miniatures site and found a lot of cool do-it-yourself projects. It's not all girly-girly... action figures need comfort and entertainment too!
Since everything is made from scratch, you can scale up or scale down, depending on the size of your figures.
When I saw the comics on her site, I thought it was a fabulous idea! I made a few changes...
1) Scanned back covers, since it's not much more effort, and means you can look at the comic from all sides
2) Used my own (and my brother's) genuine comic book collection from the 70's. These issues are circa 1970-1971 and were childhood favorites. They fit the "MEGO" period.
3) Cut out strips from the Sunday paper and filled the miniature comic books with comics, albeit non-authentic, non-period ones.
4) Chose tiger-striped couch fabric, because it screams "sooooooo 70's!"
By the way, the TV is an old souvenir from Frontier Village, in San Jose, CA, a now-defunct amusement park. Found it in the garage, in a box labelled "weird toys" where some of our toys were packed up decades ago....
Jen's websites: Jennifers*Free Dolls House and Miniature Printables
let's build a dollhouse sofa
And I'm totally groovin' on that couch! Brick M. would love to sit w/ Dynah-Mite on that and watch some good 70s TV!
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