The display cases, bookends, room boxes and dolls house projects listed here are all designed to be easily made from a wide variety of basic materials. Many of them introduce you to techniques that will allow you to build displays in a variety of scales.
1. Make a Sturdy Roombox From Baltic Birch Plywood
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Baltic Birch plywood makes sturdy lighweight roomboxes that can be combined to create baby houses or larger displays.
2. Make a Scale Roombox from Book Board or Mount Card
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Roomboxes can be made from Book Board or strong mount card and grouped together in a bookcase to make a display, or a complete dolls house.
3. Make a Bookend Display for Scale Miniatures
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Bookends can be a good way to display a small collection of related miniatures. This one could be used for either an outdoor or indoor vignette, depending on how you choose to finish it. It is made from MDF (medium density fiberboard).
4. Make a Miniature Cabin Front Porch Display Shelf
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This display shelf has room for a small interior display as well as an exterior shelf. It is made of gator board which makes it lightweight enough to hang on a wall. The same technique can be used with a number of different finishes to create a variety of building fronts.
5. Make a Printable Miniature Dolls House Shop in 1:48 Scale.
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This printable paper shop is in 1:48 scale, or railroad O Scale, sometimes called quarter scale by doll house miniaturists.
6. Printable Village Shops in 1:144 Scale (Micro Scale)
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Micro Scale fits with N scale trains. These shops are part of a collection of 1:144 scale printable miniature buildings with open backs and finished interiors. They are also suitable for a Christmas village, or will hang on the tree as ornaments.
