Books

Mini Books

Kristian Beverly6 Comments
Last night I started making miniature books. These are the ones I made.
From left to right: The Fault In Our Stars, Paper Towns, Black Beauty, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 
, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and ,Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
After finishing the saddle I wanted to do something fast. So miniature books happened. 
Over the past couple of months I’ve pinned various book jackets to my pinterest board called Miniature Projects. Some  books I found with a google image search. Here’s the links to the ones on pinterest.
The one that got me really excited I found the other day. I decided to give it a try.
I scaled the covers down to be 1:9 scale. Because the Harry Potter book covers were the hardback dust jackets instead of paperback, I decided to make them into miniature hardbacks. I used thin cardboard. 
After I cut the covers out, I glued small packets of white paper inside and modge podged the cover to seal it. Once set, I could open them up like real books, but the pages are blank. 
I really do like how they came out. The Harry Potter book covers were a little blurry, so I only made 3 of the 7 books. I have all of the *real sized* ones and have most in hardback, so I think I’ll try scanning my copies and making new miniature ones. 
 Size comparison. 
Here are some of the miniature books with their larger versions!

These were fun to make, and I can’t wait to make some more. :)

Long Intervals

Kristian Beverly4 Comments

It was a happy occurrence to get onto the internet , see Harper Lee trending, realize it was for a good reason. It was announced that To Kill A Mockingbird would have a sequel  that will be out this summer. To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favorite books and is going to be Harper Lee’s first new work in more than 50 years. Breyerfest won’t be the only thing I’ll be looking forward to in the summer!
While it hasn’t been 50 years since I’ve completed an English saddle, it’s been a while. I feel like there is always something to improve on. So I’ve been working on fixing my pattern.
The last couple of weeks has surrounded the attempt to do just that.
There was this saddle. It’s supposed to fit traditional ponies. I bought a couple of tooling tools and experimented with those on it. I didn’t make the under flaps and the panels kind of fell short, but I learned from it and took note of the things to change.

Then there was this saddle which is to fit larger models. There’s still tweaking ahead of it. I saved the pieces of this saddle and will go back to it to finish that pattern.

I finished tweaking the pony pattern today. Or I think so!

Along with the pattern I also decided to dye a piece of my lining leather purple, since purple is my favorite color. I used RIT dye.

It worked well and fast too. I didn’t listen to the ratio directions and dumped dye into hot water. The back of the bottle said something about teaspoons to gallons of water. I know my ratio was far from that! :)