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**ZMOQ** · Mar 12, '15, 5:19 PM

Originally posted by megowgsh

Anybody have a source for these?

Thanks!

Austin

Actually, I was in the market myself for a miniature drum kit (1:15). I ended up having to make one from scratch.

For 1:9, they do have model kits like this:

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-8-ACADEMY-PEARL-SINGLE-BASS-DRUM-SET-PLASTIC-MODEL-KIT-/221713017751?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item339f202b97

It's 1:8, but it should be close. The only issue I can see is that model kits are styrene plastic, and tiny parts (like the hi-hat or the bass drum pedal) would be very delicate.

If you wanted to go smaller (1:10? 1:12?), the McFarlane Kiss Alive "Catman" figure comes with a nice drum set:

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Peter-Criss-The-Catman-Kiss-Alive-McFarlane-/151611317354?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item234cbd1c6a

For a true 1:9, you'd be looking for a drum kit with a bass drum that's about 2.65" in diameter. There's a whole bunch of miniature drum kits on ebay, but they describe the bass drum as 3.5", so I think those are 1:6 (Barbie, Gi Joe).

**firestarcomics** · Mar 20, '15, 2:30 AM

KISS Mego drums set

Does anyone even know what the proper scale for a KISS Mego doll drumset? I have been interested in drums for Peter for sometime but some stuff out there is expensive. How would one make a homemade drum set, especially the cymbals??? im too curious, any tutorials or suggestions? Help
drum set.jpg

**thunderbolt** · Mar 20, '15, 3:55 AM

There was a Bratz rock angels line. There is one set with drums.

**ZMOQ** · Mar 20, '15, 4:39 PM

Originally posted by firestarcomics

Does anyone even know what the proper scale for a KISS Mego doll drumset? I have been interested in drums for Peter for sometime but some stuff out there is expensive. How would one make a homemade drum set, especially the cymbals??? im too curious, any tutorials or suggestions? Help
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You mean a drum kit for the 8" Peter Criss doll? There's plenty of drum kits made for 12" figures on ebay.

To make a homemade one for an 8" Kiss figure, you could follow the same route I did, as illustrated on Flickr.

First thing: look at the web page that describes the dimensions of a drum kit. Such as: the diameter of a bass drum, tom-toms, cymbals, etc.

Then use the handy scale converter (which I just found about here at Mego Museum), set the scale at 1:9 and get the right sizes. Look around the house for cylindrical objects like pill bottles, water bottles, caps, pens, jars, etc. for something that's the matching diameter.

Then go to Michael's, Joann's, Beverly's, or any arts and craft store and find the appropriate paper and cardstock. And 1/8" wood dowels. All the parts should cost you a total of 5 bucks.

http://www.dimensionsinfo.com/dimensions-of-a-drum-kit

http://jbwid.com/scalcalc.htm

Handmade drum kit made from scratch (1)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/17151893@N06/16079676687

My next DIY dollhouse project will be a "rock nightclub", I have the building parts cut, but I decided stop, and to work on the instruments. Now, drum kits are rather complex, and I took a long time to decide how obtain a drum kit that's shallow enough to fit in the nightclub (which is only 2-1/4" deep) and how to keep it in-scale with my figures. I was thinking about BUYING a drum kit Christmas ornament, but that just wouldn't be in the spirit of DIY. Once I saw some amazing papercraft works on the Internet, I knew what I had to do. The drum shell, in its earliest stages, is made from file folders. Basically, you trim a strip of the folder, and you glue one side and wind it around a cylindrical object. You make several layers, so by the time it dries, the drum shell will be very solid. I ended up using the inside of a DAP Concrete Patch tube, because it was 1.75" in diameter- exactly the size I needed.

Handmade drum kit made from scratch (2)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/17151893@N06/16265555415

The drum heads needed to be sturdy, and semi-translucent. Dixie Cups were perfect! I added an inner ring made of heavy paper on the inside of the drum shell. That's so there is something supporting the drum head so it just wouldn't pop inside the drum if it is handled. I trimmed off the bottom of a Dixie Cup and cut it to fit the drum shell. I used Aileen's Tacky glue on the outside, and Elmer's Wood Glue on the inside. Notice that the bass drum is only half of its normal depth. I had to do this to make the drum kit fit inside of a very shallow building. From the front view, nobody would notice.

Handmade drum kit made from scratch (3)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/17151893@N06/15645663233/

Now, it's beginning to look like a drum kit, huh? I added drum spurs (legs) to the bass drum. Those are made from a 1/8" wood dowel and a strip of black paper for the rubber feet. I glued small wood discs to the top and the sides of the bass drum, and then drilled a hole into the discs. That is to provide strength and stability for the drum spurs and the tom tom drum mount. Then I tapered one end of the drum spurs and the tom tom bracket and glued them in to the holes. The tom tom drums were made the same way as the bass drum, just in a smaller size. I wrapped the file folder strips around a dry-erase marker. The rims and clamps are simply strips of silver cardstock.

Handmade drum kit made from scratch (4)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/17151893@N06/16265562945/

The cymbal is made from gold-colored cardstock. The stand is made from more of the 1/8" wood dowel, and bamboo toothpicks. The tripod stand would normally be very fragile, so to fix that, I drilled 1/16" holes partially into the wood dowel, and tapered the end of the toothpicks and jammed them in to the holes. After 2 layers of glue dried, it would be reasonably sturdy. The stool is a 1" wood disc, mounted on another wooden tripod stand. Notice that the lugs are round instead of rectangular. This is because I only have a multi-sized round punch, and not a rectangular one. The last time I had access to a rectangular punch was when I last touched an IBM 029 Card Punch machine at Sunguard. My previous occupation was IT/Data Processing.

Handmade drum kit made from scratch (5)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/17151893@N06/15645984813/

I decided I didn't like the color of the drum kit. It looked too much like "wallpaper at Grandma's house". I set myself a day behind on the project because I had to peel off all of the previous paper , and re-do almost everything except for the drum shells and the drum heads. You can see the completed cymbal stand here, with "adjustment clamps" and "rubber feet". I had also completed the floor tom drum. On the right, the snare drum is in-progress.

Handmade drum kit made from scratch (6)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/17151893@N06/16080048737/

Here is the mostly-completed drum kit. I have not made the bass drum kick pedal, nor the hi-hat yet. Those will be coming up soon. The scale turned out to be about 1:12. So far, the costs have been very low. I used materials that were already sitting around the house, so the only item I needed to go out and buy was silver-colored cardstock.

Handmade drum kit made from scratch (8)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/17151893@N06/16323161345/

All that work making a drum kit would be pointless unless I showed the completed 5 piece drum kit with a drummer, huh? Here's Skully, the drummer for the Skull Boyz. He's actually a 5 inch skeleton bendy toy. These toys are currently being manufactured, and they're mostly used as Halloween favors. Like all bendys, they have internal wires coated in plastic, and you can bend them in many positions. The hands and the overly-large feet, however, are not bendable. But hey, they're easy to get, they're cheap and they're the right scale. What's there not to love about them? Hat and clothing was tailored by me. I'm pretty good at making doll clothing in that size. The vest hides the extreme skinniness of the skeleton bendy.

Good luck and post your results with your Peter Criss figure!

**ZMOQ** · Mar 25, '15, 2:10 PM

I think I just solved the problem with the microphone stands.

They need to be cheap and easy-to-make using readily available parts.

Wooden dowels, wooden discs and cardstock. The cardstock is trimmed into strips, and wrapped around a dowel to make the mike mounts.

The mike stands can be made adjustable by using a hollow Plastruct tube glued to the base, and a wood dowel for the upper stand that fits into the Plastruct tube.

If you wanted to make your own microphones, it can be done by tapering a wooden dowel, and gluing a jewelry bead onto it.

Example of mike stand in-progress (not in Mego scale):

Originally posted by megowgsh

Anybody have a source for these?

Thanks!

Austin

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