Military Miniatures and other military projects for dollhouses, roomboxes and dioramas
For all information relating to creating and displaying miniatures, houses, roomboxes and dioramas relating to war history and battle re-enactments.
Remembrance Day in Canada commemorates the end of WW1, supposedly the war to end all wars. It is on the 11th day of the 11th month with a moment of silence at the 11th hour.
In the USA, this day is called Veterans Day and honours all veterans, while Memorial Day on the last Monday of May honours all those who died in service of their country. American projects associated with these events belong on this page, along with those from other nations.
Also see Remembrance Day Canada, samurai
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- photo albums, blog posts, webpages
James - by Annemarie Kwikkel, a naval officer, attending a formal reception.
Moira Michaels - by Rhonda King (American Poppy Program)
Blogs
- Blogs concentrating on military miniatures or categories/labels about them in blogs
Groups
- Discussion groups, forums (or forum categories) and photo groups dedicated to military miniatures.
Supplies for sale
- Supplies needed for making military miniature projects.
Miniatures for sale
- Do you have a section for military miniatures in your shop? Add a direct link to that item here.
Books
- Books about miniature military projects (also books with chapters about them)
Instructions for miniatures
Miniature printables
Wallpapers
- Wallpapers that go well with military miniature projects
Other Printies
- Book/magazine covers related to military miniatures
Links
- links to sites showing how to make items related to military miniatures
Ancient Sword by Elilia
Trenches - from Daka Forum
Videos
- YouTube videos about miniature projects related to this subject
Research/ Inspiration
Tips/Hints
- WW1 uniforms
1. The colors were basically khaki or olive drab. The best scale fabric for a miniature doll would be men's handkerchiefs or socks in khaki. (You can find these by Googling if they are not available locally.) Or perhaps dye white cotton a khaki color by using strong coffee.
2. Use a paper towel to make a trial pattern, decide whether the soldier is to be in his shirt, tucked in, or wearing his coat.
3. To lessen bulk, apply a thin coat of glue to the back of the fabric, let dry, and then cut a single layer for the pocket flaps, collar neckband, and the epaulets.
4. To make the buttons, perhaps the simplest would be cut off brass head pins, darkened slightly with a wash or chalks.
5. Add some bulk to his toes for his combat boots, paint them brown, and then wrap the leggings around the pant legs below the knee - like bandages - to make the puttees.
Ideas about what is needed for these projects
Above and Beyond - National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
- ideas for shop names
- YouTube videos about the subject
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Comments (5)
johanna janhonen said
at 5:55 pm on Apr 16, 2012
Military projects - interesting! I dont remember what else we have related to this, but at least samurai page exists.
But we do not differ the projects by scales, e.g. all samurai projects are in the same page. If a page grows very large, like trash_minis we divide it to several pages. So I suggest we rename this page to military and if this page grows big then divide it by different scales. Ok?
Linda McD said
at 7:58 pm on Apr 16, 2012
I have ediied the page, and didn't see any links which would be broken by the edit.
Just a cautionary comment - this could be a controversial subject (remember the discussion about geishas and British/England/Great Britain.)
johanna janhonen said
at 8:24 pm on Apr 16, 2012
There is a link in 1to6 page I think. And sure this is a controversial subject if anything but I hope miniaturists are not going to fight about this.
Quanita said
at 11:46 am on Apr 17, 2012
I added the 1to6 scale link... only because a lot of the military battle re-enactments are in that scale, and I thought that if a miniaturist who works with that scale and military models, would like a link from there, but there is so much military modelling information that it would probably swamp the 1:6 scale page. It is very hard to find non-military 1to6 scale pages because of the large amount of military and action figure miniaturists out there
johanna janhonen said
at 12:26 pm on Apr 17, 2012
Ok. I am not aware of the 1/6 military projects so let see the naming once you have added your links here :).
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