Friday, August 21, 2009

Model making - phone booth

There's a useful site for print-and-fold miniatures called Printmini.com which is great if you need anything for a doll's house and not so good if you're creating Police stations and phone booths. But shapes can be adapted, right? So first you need a clear idea of what a phone booth looks like.



An upside down arcade machine looks a little bit like the modern wall-phone kiosk. Now, don't ask me why but there ARE models for those on the internet!

I chose the Tempest and set about removing the lurid colours.



When folded and adjusted it made a reasonable-looking phone booth.



But it wasnt' quite what I'd hoped for. With some measuring, re-drafting and further refinements a new model was created.




With some branding and some leftover plastic packaging added, a fairly decent looking miniature phone booth came to be!



Now, how to make it stand up...