Got another one glued together! Almost scraped this one, but I like this house so much, I managed to pull it back from a trainwreck in progress. It's the first house that I had a major design flaw in when I went to glue my pattern together. I'm going to chalk it up to this cold I've been fighting the last week.
I had got a few of the angles wrong and when I went to put on the roof it didn't fit too well. I managed to save the back of the house from my original design, but had to chop the whole front off and start fresh.
I have loved this house for sometime, not just because it is a full coco
, but because it has a twin. Don't know if I've shared this with the forum before, but I have a twin brother. He also has a small vintage village of Japan houses. Ted called this one March Majesty, and it can be seen at the link below....
http://www.cardboardchristmas.com/papateds/Hom2004.html
I'm working on the green version, but it has a mirror image done up in red.
The Santa in the photo, was made by Tom Hull from a casting of an original in his collection. I'm going to attempt to make a mold of the casting he sent me so I have a Santa for the twin when I get around to doing it.
-Brian
I used the pics off Papa Ted's site for my pattern and I was only able to see one side. Then I noticed on there that he said one of them was Antoinette's so I checked out her mantels and was able to see the other side. Mine is pretty close, but I think I'll make a few slight adjustments if I make another one of the green ones. The red one has slightly different roof peaks so I'll be adjusting for that too.
