Thursday, 27 February 2014

Hunting plaques

No animals were hurt in the making of this miniature - unless you count my husband who nearly provided me with a human finger to mount..! These are super quick and easy to make and i think they are really effective and add a little je nes se quai to any Victorian study (can you tell i don't speak french?!?! Sorry to all French speaking people for my appalling spelling)

First fight with a scalpel and nearly cut your fingers off them get your husband to do the hard bit! Decapitate several plastic toy animals, as you can see i chose an elephant, a hippo and a buffalo type thing to mount.


Next cut out some mounts, it would look great in wood, i was lazy and made it out of thick card, painted it brown-ish and then trimmed it with gold paint applied very roughly with a cocktail stick.
 Glue them in place with super glue. And your done! easy huh?!
 woops that's badly off centre!
And i need to do something better with that wall it looks far too plain... watch this space!

Much Love
Freya xxx

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  1. Plushpussycat11 March 2014 at 16:55

    Fun idea for adding realism to your Victorian study (esp since no animals were hurt)! Thanks for the nice tutorial too. I'm glad to have found your blog today. xo Jennifer

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    1. Unknown11 March 2014 at 19:08

      Thank you! I've been following your blog since I started minis and am a big fan so coming from a pro that means alot to me! Xxx

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  2. Pippibär7 April 2014 at 08:36

    Hi Freya!
    I couldn´t find the gadget to be follower of your blog, but I put your link in my sidebar so I can see if you post somethin new.
    I´m not a friend of hunting animals and I think peaple who hunt wild animals like elephants (I LOVE elephants) have to go to jail... but your little hunting trophies are really cute.
    Hugs
    Melli

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    1. Unknown7 April 2014 at 11:59

      I agree totally, I love all animals and save lots of the little ones who fall foul of the cats in my area. I'm glad that the time of hunting animals is on its way out, it needs to stop now. But these were quite fun lol I would never have real skins in my real house but I thought fake ones in my mini house were ok! They spark animal rights debates from my mini people, the wife wants them down immediately but the husband says its ok as they are fake and in all the design magazines, she says is he a leader or a follower? and that they are naff. They may be removed in the night... I'll have to make them a bin to throw them in! Lol xxx

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