Neko

Miniatures

Most of these about 1:48 (quarter) scale, give or take some laziness in the measuring! I've got some confusion going in the actual timeline, because I didn't record everything as I was making them.

Covid is a hell of a drug. I was so incredibly bored that I started this model, with no plan - it's mostly made of scraps of cardboard from one of those little paper model kits, and a bunch of fabric scraps I have lying around.
One of the earliest models I did! I live near Chateau Chillon (the inspiration for The Prisoner of Chillon, a Lord Byron short story), and the "dungeon" is really impressive. I'm really proud of the pillory - the top actually moves!
I made this after I moved away (well, went away) for my last year of university, right after finally losing hope that we'd be back in classrooms that year. It probably shows in how dark the whole thing turned out, but Ottawa winters are probably not a *great* thing to be fully on your own in.
Springtime inspires spring picnic minis, I guess? I was mostly doing knitting and bookbinding between these projects because it was my last semester so things were a bit crazy, and this was a nice break from it. (I'm especially proud of the basket!)
This apothecary was inspired by one of my walnuts, which was a similarly witchy little shelf. It was mostly an excuse to make things that are tiny, but at a bigger scale than my previous ones to give myself a chance to make more detailed minis.
This was the first one I did after I moved back home, and it shows- it's kind of an updated version of the first one I ever made, just in pink for a bit of variety. Most of the furniture is very Ikea-ish (I used the catalog for reference photos), which makes sense for a kid's bedroom and is remarkably easy to build with a foam sheet. This is also the first time I paid real attention to the particular scale.
This was really fun! I felt like I wasn't quite pushing myself enough when I made the bedroom, so I came up with this to make myself build more complex furniture, plus more small accessories.
I can't find resin here, so I needed a way to test a different way to get a water look. This one's just a sheet of tinted plastic, laid very carefully across a painted space, but the effect is alright! The only thing is I had to cover the whole edge of the water, since I didn't cut it well enough to get it well-fitted to the edge.
I bought a rather ugly little Polly Pocket locket a while back, and finally got sick of how bland the thing was and stripped everything except the outside. Then I sort of invented my own even-smaller Polly!