Miniature Buildings

(As well as articles on miniature buidlings I have also written a number of articles about wooden railways (Brio and the like) which are listed in my MB Wooden Railways sub-site)

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The aims and scope
of 'Miniature Buildings'

Recent Articles
Some new, some updated

Fontainbleu
An overview model of the chateau at Fontainbleu

Brittany
An assortment seen during our 2022 trip

Cathedraloscope
A French museum filled with models
focused on cathedral construction

Farm Models
More variety than you might imagine

Santons & Nativities
Mostly figures but with buildings as a backdrop

All Articles A-Z

1/24 Scale
Dolls houses, Model villages, garden railways

1/32 Scale
Military models & Farms.
But why limit it to them?

1/43 Scale

1/72,76,87 Scale
HO & OO railway buildings, and military scenery

1/144 Scale
And 1/148, and a bit of N scale

The Author
A few words about me

Brittany
An assortment seen during our 2022 trip

Bronze town models
Small scale models of towns.
In bronze or other materials.

Card models

Casa di Loreto
A model? An artwork?

Cathedraloscope
A French museum filled with models
focused on cathedral construction

Chateau du Clos de Vougeot
A discontinued French card model

Church Models:
UK church 'railway' models
A look at models (mostly OO and N) of UK churches.
Church models
Some general thoughts about models of churches.
St Thomas's Church
1/144 from Petite Properties
My own build of this kit

Cockington Gardens
A collection of world buildings in Canberra

Dioramas

Dolls house buildings

Dollshouses - serious stuff

Eastern Manor restoration
My own work restoring a neglected dollshouse

Exhibition Models
Miniature buildings exhibits within
castles, cathedrals, museums and so on.

Facades

Farm Models

Forth Hotel

Gulf Resin - under revision

Hank Cheng

HO & OO

House Varieties

How Important is Scale?

House Portraits

KLM huisjes

Loreto

Madurodam

Matthew Simmonds

Miniature Parks & Model Villages

Modelling Home Page

Model railway buildings

My own modelling

Museum & exhibition pieces

Peter Fritz

Oirschot Station
An imaginary Dutch station

Philip Laureston

Professor of Modelling
19th century maker of paper architectural models, John Bellamy

Roman Theatre

Santons & Nativities
Mostly figures but with buildings as a backdrop

Scale; How Important is it?

Scales; The whole spectrum

Serious about dollshouses

Simon Williams

Souvenir models

Street Art

St Thomas's Church
1/144 from Petite Properties

Suppliers of Buildings and components

Terraced shops
Prototypes and models of archtypal English shops

Thatched roofs

There, then gone
Capturing transitory articles on model buildings

A Tudor attempt
My abandoned attempt at a 1/32 half timbered cottage

UK church 'railway' models
A look at models (mostly OO and N) of UK churches.

Up & Down the scales

VierK farmhouse

Wallis Manor
My Georgian dream in miniature

Weathering

Web Oddments

William Davis

Winterdorp (villages)
December 2019

'Wooden' Railways
Brio and compatibles
A series of pages that are not about buildings
My unique home made layout board
The box for my train board
Modifying a swing bridge
Slopes to brdges are often too hard
A compendium of recomendations for powerful battery trains
Oirschot - An imaginary Dutch station

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.D.

As always, please e-mail Miniature Buildings if you have something to add. Comments, criticisms, extra thoughts, pictures, or even complete articles for inclusion in the Miniature Buildings site are all welcome. Or if you would like to be added to my mailing list to hear when a new article is published.

David, Sept 2021