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The negatives of building miniatures


Image by Kerstin Riemer from Pixabay 

I feel I have a love / hate relationship with miniatures. And it’s because of this feeling towards miniatures that I can go for months without building miniatures. 

Here are the reasons why it can be a negative experience:

It falls apart in your hands 

When building a chair for example, you hold the furniture in place, count twenty seconds, put the chair to the side and it falls apart. 

Or after you have built the first chair, while the second chair is falling apart your hand accidentally hits the first chair and now both have fallen apart. 

Now repeat this five times.

Glue is messy to work with 

Expect glue to be every where. All over your fingers and all over your board. I normally use card board but get embarrassed when shooting YouTube videos at littlemissmel23 and the cardboard has glue all over it from past miniature DIY creations. 

Patience when building miniatures 

I do not have a lot of it. But when building miniatures, you really do need a lot of patience. Just remember it doesn’t matter how it looks now, it matters how it looks at the end. So best to make that little flower pot as perfect as possible, because if everything looks good then the whole miniature at the end will look amazing. 

Time

The process of gluing takes time. From furniture to decorations. If a piece requires more than two parts of gluing, then expect to glue more the next day of the same object. Glue can take 12 - 24 hours to dry properly, so do not pick up the miniature object until it is set to continue with gluing the next part.

Gluing fabric onto fabric

I personally hate gluing fabric onto fabric. Why? Because instead of normal craft glue, I have to use fabric glue. This means, I have to wear gloves and the glue is sticky and hot and sticks your glove fingers together. It’s a tricky glue and for something so tiny, it is just plain difficult to work with. 

Please comment below, What do you struggle with, when building miniatures? 

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