Useful items for sixth-scale environments (continuously updated)

Pontiacivan wrote:So often we see items advertised as 1:6 only to have them fall short of scale. It was refreshing to find this real metal propane tank and accessories listed as 1:12, but at 5cm ( 1.97") tall, the tank is the perfect height for us.
Amazon $4.60 US. Under 1:12 Kitchen play sets.

Stryker2011 wrote:

Pontiacivan wrote:So often we see items advertised as 1:6 only to have them fall short of scale. It was refreshing to find this real metal propane tank and accessories listed as 1:12, but at 5cm ( 1.97") tall, the tank is the perfect height for us.
Amazon $4.60 US. Under 1:12 Kitchen play sets.

Cool find.


Nice to see you active again.

Pontiacivan wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:

lawlaw91 wrote:Nice and funny set-up, I love that snake chair

Thank you very much.
Hmm, I never thought of it as a "snake" chair, but now that I look at it, some of the detail is reminiscent of snakes. I believe it is intended to be Empire style furniture, and if I remember correctly it came from on of those gangster sets (but was it Corleone or Scarface, I forget).

Hmmm.....Snake chair does give it a great tie in though.lol.

GubernatorFan wrote:

lawlaw91 wrote:Nice and funny set-up, I love that snake chair

Thank you very much.
Hmm, I never thought of it as a "snake" chair, but now that I look at it, some of the detail is reminiscent of snakes. I believe it is intended to be Empire style furniture, and if I remember correctly it came from on of those gangster sets (but was it Corleone or Scarface, I forget).

Lynkhart wrote:I too bought some bits and bobs from Tiger recently - they don't always have them in stock as they're more of a seasonal item, but they sell these great metal chairs for about £3 each. The original one I bought from there a few years ago was matte black, but the more recent ones were painted in various pastel shades, but they painted up nicely after some primer.

Deja Brew WIP by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

image by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

I can't remember the branding of this, but I found it on holiday last year in one of those 'not-quite-a-£1-shop-but-close-enough' kind of shops. It's a novelty condiment/cutlery holder and cost me about £7 if I remember correctly. I really bought it for the umbrella as it actually works, but the chairs are actually a pretty good size for my dolls, though it'd be a little more of a squeeze for larger 1/6th figures. I added a fake mosaic on the tabletop to disguise the hole for the parasol, and I'd really like to get rid of the wooden boxes under the chairs which held the cutlery, but they're glued on there pretty solidly unfortunately.

image by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

Enjoying the sunshine by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

Enjoying the sunshine by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

On that same holiday I found this scaffy old tealight holder in a charity shop and thought it had potential. I stripped off the painted leather sides and stuck on some wooden shelves instead and boom! Industrial side table!

image by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

image by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

Also on the industrial theme, you can get sets of novelty 'pipe' straws from £1 shops, and when combined with balsa wood, textured wallpaper and lots of weathering, you get a rather snazzy 'reclaimed' desk!

Industrial Desk WIP by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

Industrial Desk WIP by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

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This next one's a little hit or miss as its really too chunky for true 1/6 but I think you can get away with it. I've seen these miniature easels at £1 shops and The Works here in the UK but I'm sure they're fairly easy to get hold of elsewhere too. They usually come with a mini canvas, which is really too thick for our purposes, but could be used as one of those big printed canvas artworks you can get. I made my own of course, and I think it works fairly well as a desk-mounted easel.

Lynkhart wrote:I too bought some bits and bobs from Tiger recently - they don't always have them in stock as they're more of a seasonal item, but they sell these great metal chairs for about £3 each. The original one I bought from there a few years ago was matte black, but the more recent ones were painted in various pastel shades, but they painted up nicely after some primer.


Wanted to bump this, since I totally missed it the first time around. Love the metal chair, the scale looks fantastic!
I but the straw kits whenever I see them. I plan to use them for piping, but the collection just keeps getting bigger. I think your solution as table legs was brilliant! The paint and weathering is top notch as ell!

DarthJ wrote:Did we see a television yet ? Old style, before flat screens.

It dates from the 1990s and you could find these in souvenir shops all over the world. It's a kind of Viewmaster.

GubernatorFan wrote:I like what you did there, DarthJ, especially after I spotted the tiny "real" camera in the hands of one of your lovely assistants. Posing a 1:1 article (as itself) with 1:6 figures could be fun, but would not fall under the category of a 1:6 environment/diorama/whatever. But you found a way to make sense of it, which works very well indeed.

DarthJ wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:I like what you did there, DarthJ, especially after I spotted the tiny "real" camera in the hands of one of your lovely assistants. Posing a 1:1 article (as itself) with 1:6 figures could be fun, but would not fall under the category of a 1:6 environment/diorama/whatever. But you found a way to make sense of it, which works very well indeed.

That is the photographer, the other one is the model wearing (but not for long) a Francie (Barbie range) poney fur coat.
This thread allows to use objects of every scale, why not 1:1 ?  An object is its own ultimate scale model.

Stryker2011 wrote:Interesting camera — never heard of them. Bootleg camera? Maybe of a Pentax?

skywalkersaga wrote:I was browsing MoreZMore's ebay store looking for something else entirely, but came across these glass micro beads and thought they might be be useful if anyone needs 'bubbles' for a diorama