If you have a vision of what to collect and how to house your miniatures, you are at the point where you can map out your plans and decide what you need in order to create your collection. This is where you start to let your creativity shine. I’ll use a display box as an example in the points below, but the same process applies to a building or a dolls house, just treat each room as a separate display.
- Focus on Detail:When you see your display box in your mind, what is the first thing you notice? Do you want lots of detail and texture? Are you looking for a calm, peaceful feel? Do you want colors and design that create excitement? Write down the details of how you want your display to appear, use descriptive language, moody, peaceful, bustling, bright.
- Choose a Display View: With this step you choose how your eye will focus on the collection in your display. Will you need the viewer to focus on one corner, the back wall? Several layers and heights within the box?. Brooke Tucker’s Put Abouts draw your eye in to a multi layered scheme to showcase detailed collections. Plan your view and decide if you need windows for backlight, a doorway to draw your eye through, levels to change height and draw the collection upwards.
- Choose Colors and Lighting: These need to work together so work out how your light source will look most natural and how you will achieve that in your box. (wiring, glass top, natural light?) Choose colors that will work with your detail and lighting.
- Plan Plan Plan!: Now you have the main concepts (a box, backlit via an open doorway in sunny colors to display a collection of kitchen miniatures) take a look at what you can create and what you will need to buy in order to build your scene.
