You can use scraps of foam core board, or other building materials, to make detailed panel backdrops for photographing miniatures. Here foam core has been cut to have openings which hold dollhouse scale windows, then painted with a mix of grey toned acrylic paints. You can see the background photograph set behind the window in the window opening that has been left open.
A grey 'carpet' has been made from a piece of embossed felt. Photographs printed on paper and mounted behind the windows allow some set light through to give the effect of a garden scene beyond the window.
You can make interior or exterior walls with windows or doors, or plants overgrowing elements attached to walls. This type of backdrop is held against the back of your miniature set by insertion into the slots at between the back and the sides. If you don't have slots or sides, you can clamp the panel to the back of the set using paper clamps, or you can use artist's or photo mount adhesive to give the panel a non permanent bond, allowing you to remove the panel after you have taken your photographs.
Foam core panels tend to curl if finished on one side only, so store them flat with windows and doors removed between uses if possible.
