The Bottom Line
Village Display Tips are a series of books and tapes designed to help village collectors create a display of their collection. The books are well illustrated with helpful discussions on terrain, lighting, sighting buildings, creating backdrops and useful accessories. More Village Display Tips, published in 2005, has lots of useful ideas for beginners and more advanced collectors, including how to deal with expanding collections, and displaying villages year round.
Pros
- Wide variety of collectible village types discussed
- Good suggestions for how to choose placement of buildings
- Lots of information on creating terrain.
- Good suggestions for mixing sets and building types
Cons
- Some photographs are a bit dark
Description
- Useful information for all levels of collectors
- Good suggestions for year round displays and creating special themes.
- Clear information on how various effects are created, along with suggestions for simpler methods.
- Good descriptions of which pieces are used in the displays shown, as well as how to extend the look with accessories.
Guide Review - More Village Display Tips Book Review
More Village Display Tips, by Leigh Gieringer, is a well illustrated compilation of details of many different themed collectible villages. The book shows and discusses all sizes of collections, and makes suggestions for how to mix various collectible collections together into a pleasing unit. A number of styles of layouts are shown, from collections that fit on a mantle, or surround a fireplace, to units that run along walls, or stack up in room corners. There are good suggestions for backgrounds, and special terrain details (mountains and water are some). Most of the common collectible sets are discussed and illustrated, from North Pole villages, to Dickens and city skylines.
The suggestions and techniques range from building your own mountains, to which materials will easily simulate water, without a lot of effort. This is a good book for a novice or enthusiast, as it showcases several ways to achieve similar results, regardless of the size or scope of your collection.
The main emphasis of the book is on how to showcase your particular collection, and how to adapt pieces to make your collection stand out.
