Miniatures

[DemonSlayerMau]

One thing me and my grandma seem to agree on is that we both like miniatures, and she gets a catalog that sells stuff to put in small miniature doll houses and such. I happened to notice some Halloween and Harvest stuff in it which got me excited. It wasn't much though, but it was still something.
So it kind of made me wonder, has anyone ever built a miniature haunted house, or miniature grave yard or any other miniature haunted display?
My mom and stepfather if I remember right have a miniature "halloween town" display. You could like, have a laboratory, a morgue, a grave yard, and a haunted house as suggestions. I can't remember all the things my mom and stepfather had in their mini display though, but I remember a laboratory and a morgue. My stepfather also has a small halloween tree.
If I had the time and the money I'd build one, and I'm really tempted to build my own miniature haunted house. (And even cooler if I could get a replica of Christine to be parked outside of it! Hahaha.)
So what do my fellow haunters think of miniature haunts?

[adrian]

i think miniatures are GREAT! i like the idea of you making it that would sound like fun.. instead of buying the little christmas houses my mother has been making her own and she has a TON of fun and they mean so much more. On halloween i make my own mask. i've been living on my own for only 3 years now but now i have 3 (about to be four) unique mask that i'll do my best to keep for the rest of my life

[Andybev01]

I found this photo on a miniatures hobby site.

I design mini printables for fun, and have posted some here

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[DemonSlayerMau]

Oh my gosh, that's cute Andy! I wonder where you can get that?
I'd definately want the little miniature kitty cat. ...I'm obsessed with cats I know. :p

[Pumpkin_Man]

Those look pretty cute. I'm not a huge fanof miniatures because they're hard to see. My sister loves them because they're easier to put out and put away.

Mike

[DemonSlayerMau]

Remember our discussion about our perfect Halloween village? It'd be neat to see a miniature made of it.

[adrian]

Remember our discussion about our perfect Halloween village? It'd be neat to see a miniature made of it.

that WOULD be a pretty good idea i wish there were a way for us to create one together.. is there an online app that we could all down load and participate together? kinda like a sims?

[DemonSlayerMau]

The closest I could think of is something like IMVU or Second Life, but someone would have to know how to use a 3D modelling program.
On IMVU however, I do have a Halloween themed room with pumpkins, a grave yard with some ghosts and some floating islands. I added some black cats to it to put my paw print on it so to speak. But I don't know much about 3D modelling.
You could probably find scenes that are Halloween ish enough on IMVU, but it costs money to buy credits on it, which kind of sticks. But it is a fun program. I've got my anthromorphic black cat character Mau on it. She wasn't a black cat originally, but I made her such because of my love for Halloween. She's also an angel of death and slays demons for a living.
If someone knows how to make 3D models and such, an option then is to create a chat using that specific room and inviting everyone on Halloween.com on it. Creating an account is free and easy to do, but customizing it can cost money. There are ways you can earn promotional credits though and that's free.

[adrian]

that sounds like a good idea. is it available for mac. maybe this is something we can suggest to halloweencom to put on the site as a link maybe if we suggest our idea he/she could come up with the game/world

[DemonSlayerMau]

I couldn't tell you if there was a mac version or not. I'm assuming it's primarily for PC.
I don't know if HalloweenCom has the capabilities, but it's not hard to sign up.
Go to www.imvu.com and check and see.

[adrian]

I couldn't tell you if there was a mac version or not. I'm assuming it's primarily for PC.
I don't know if HalloweenCom has the capabilities, but it's not hard to sign up.
Go to http://www.imvu.com and check and see.

will do

[Demonic Duck]

My wife and I have a miniature Halloween village similar to what people may build for Christmas though this is way cooler. We're not artistically inclined so we buy the pieces. We only started last year so we only have a few pieces since they are expensive. We had put the fake moss underneath it and it looked real cool. Though my wife was allergic to something in it so we're going to have to figure out something different for this year. They set we buy is from Department 56 and is of good quality(which is why we are willing to pay the extra money when we're broke) the link to it is http://www.department56.com/content.asp ... u=products I will post a picture of ours once it's up(soon Yay Halloween!!)

[adrian]

Thanks for the link DemonicDuck! yes, post pics soon i'm sure you could get started early lol but yea, i'd like to see what you guys are working on

[DemonSlayerMau]

I was lucky enough to find a Micheal's near the main campus of my school, and got these miniature light up pumpkins along a string and two of them come with little cats walking next to them. They are battery powered, and I found just the right spot for them. They give that errie glow of a jack o' lantern, except of course much smaller and without the flicker. I love 'em. They weren't that expensive either, infact I think they were on sale. They were the last ones too.
Miniatures can be expensive, but if you're lucky you can find good buys.
In August I was lucky enough to find little stampers which, look like miniatures. One had a cat on a jack o' lantern, the other has a skeleton coming out of a jack o' lantern. These I found at the salvation army. The fact they were stampers was an added bonus, I didn't even realize it until after I bought them. They make a nice little Halloween decoration however.
I'm finding I really like little decorations since they don't take up a lot of room.

[sueluvshalloween]

My wife and I have a miniature Halloween village similar to what people may build for Christmas though this is way cooler. We're not artistically inclined so we buy the pieces. We only started last year so we only have a few pieces since they are expensive. We had put the fake moss underneath it and it looked real cool. Though my wife was allergic to something in it so we're going to have to figure out something different for this year. They set we buy is from Department 56 and is of good quality(which is why we are willing to pay the extra money when we're broke) the link to it is http://www.department56.com/content.asp ... u=products I will post a picture of ours once it's up(soon Yay Halloween!!)

I have some Dept. 56 Halloween pieces, which I have sitting on top of my entertainment unit. The top of every surface in my home has to have something Halloween-ish on it. The pieces I have are the spooky tree (it has a lighted face that blinks), tombstones, cats, pumpkins, a black picket skeleton fence, and black trees. I arrange the tombtones in front of the tree. Then I place the fence around it, with the pumpkins arranged on both sides of the opening of the fence. The cats are next to the pumpkins, and there's a black tree outsie the fence on each side. I also purchased miniature lights for each tree -- one has purple & orange LED lights (they're really intense!) & the other tree has black cat-head lights. Behind the display, I put a piece of cardstock that has a Halloween scene. Then I put a string of green lights around the perimeter of the top of the entertainment unit, with Spanish moss. There are a couple of other things up there, too. Without a picture, it's hard to get a good idea of it. Anyway, it looks great.