How to Make Perfect Dollhouse Figures
How to Make Perfect Dollhouse Figures
A dollhouse isn’t truly a home until dolls move in! Now you can learn to build realistic 1″ scale figures with this wonderfully illustrated instruction manual. Covers the basics of proportions and movement, the selection and use of tools and materials, painting tips, and more. Includes step-by-step building projects with polymer clay, metallic foils and powders, and other materials.
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Fisher Price Loving Family Figures:Grandma, Brother, Mom, Dad, Toddler & Sister
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A wonderful addition to your Loving Family Dollhouse set!
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Review by Midwest Book Review for How to Make Perfect Dollhouse Figures
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In How To Make Perfect Dollhouse Figures, “Dollhouse Miniatures” magazine associate editor Kitty Mackey shows how to make polymer clay and cloth-body dolls to enhance miniature scenes and displays. Profusely illustrated, Mackey provides step-by-step instructions for shaping and posing an armature, making hands and fingers, sculpting eyes, mouths, and noses. How To Make Perfect Dollhouse Figures also shows how to use polymer clay-sculpting tools, how to maintain body and facial proportions, and how to paint a the figure for realistic result. Also highly recommended for miniaturists are Kalmbach’s The ABC’s Of Dollhouse Finishing; Kit Renderings; How To Build Miniature Furniture & Room Setting; Finishing Touches; and Workshop Wisdom: Dollhouse Crafting Tips from “Nutshell News".
Review by luv2read for How to Make Perfect Dollhouse Figures
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This book is small – not even 50 pages – and most of the pictures are small B&W (yet clear and easy to see), but this has been one of the most useful sculpting guides I’ve ever owned. Used in conjunction with a good anatomy book or Katherine Dewey’s “Sculpting Life-Like Figures,” beautiful results can be achieved.
In the book, the author shows you step-by-step how to sculpt a full bodied clay figure as well as a mixed clay & cloth figure. However, the things that I found most useful were: the detailed description for making armatures, which I find some sculpting books skimp on and which is so important, and the number of scale charts of front, side, and back views, which can be used to check you figure against to help keep it proportional. Also the charts are for a range of figures: adult male and female, 14 year old male and female, six year old male and female, and a 2 year old toddler. With practice, an entire family can be made. As a beginner in sculpting, these things have been very helpful for me.
The author also details how to make a smiling figure, which some books treat as if it’s an advanced skill. I used her technique successfully on one of my first figures, and even though I made one eye too small and one shoulder too big, I was overall pleased with the result, and what I think looks like a very natural looking smile.
I think this title is out of print or at least it use to be. My copy is from 1998. I wouldn’t pay a scandalous OOP price for it, but if you can find it cheap like the current used rate of [...]or less, it certainly is worth owning.
I gave it 4 stars because of the B&W photos, which makes it outdated in look compared to other sculpting titles, but don’t let that deter you. I wish someone would republish it in color.
Review by Rebecca Bourque for Fisher Price Loving Family Figures:Grandma, Brother, Mom, Dad, Toddler & Sister
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These dolls are great overall…I bought them for the Loving Family Townhouse that I bought used for my daughter, and they go very nicely with it. However, they are extremely over-priced! You can buy them for $5-$6 per 2-pack of the figures (mom and toddler; grandma and brother; dad and sister) at any national toy retailer/discount store. At most, they should cost $20, not $50, especially since they’re still widely available (the shelves were full when I bought all three 2-packs this week!).
Review by DEva for Fisher Price Loving Family Figures:Grandma, Brother, Mom, Dad, Toddler & Sister
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Almost bought it here – but found a sale at toysrus.com. Bought this separate family in addition to the african american family (parents plus the two babies)/dollhouse, and my daughter and her friends play with all of them DAILY. My only complaint is that they don’t have the entire african american family available with grandmother (and why don’t they have a grandfather)? Great toy – can find cheaper elsewhere, and I found the african american sister/brother at ebay – because it appears they are discontinued now (but the one I got was new in package). Would recommend in a heartbeat (but wouldn’t buy all the furniture – it is too much – and the kids have enought imagination to play with what is provided).
Review by Sheila Guido for Fisher Price Loving Family Figures:Grandma, Brother, Mom, Dad, Toddler & Sister
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I refurbished the dollhouse my father built for me 30 years ago, and gave it to my 3 1/2 year old daughter for Christmas this year. I still had the original furniture, but no dolls left. This family fits PERFECTLY in the house, and they are jointed so well that they can sit in the chairs at the kitchen table! I am thrilled with the product so far, I just wish that there was another brother in the set, as she has two, but no sisters. Otherwise, it parallels our family well, and she loves it!
Review by T. J. Taylor for Fisher Price Loving Family Figures:Grandma, Brother, Mom, Dad, Toddler & Sister
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Awfully expensive for a set of dolls that can all fit in a box that’s no more than 3″x5″x2″ big. I would have passed on this set if the description had properly described the size of the dolls.
Review by Jennifer for Fisher Price Loving Family Figures:Grandma, Brother, Mom, Dad, Toddler & Sister
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My daughter loves playing with these people in her dollhouse. She is 19 months old. My 3 year old son also likes them. Not so interesting if you don’t have a play house but if you do, they fit great!