With the design plan in hand my first step was to determine what materials I would use and what I needed to buy. The board that the furniture attaches to is made from a 1/2” thick 24” square piece of plywood. This is the size board that fits on my custom built cart created for my Salamander army that I use to move armies around events. However, had I not had the cart this display could have been much smaller as the verticalness allowed us to stack more units in less space. The “flooring” was created with 1/16” thick x 1” wide balsa wood strips. However, unlike the basing the flooring was just sanded rather than being carved up with a wire brush. To complete the wooden floor look I added a few tiny silver finishing nails in a couple of places to make the boards look like they were nailed down.
For the desk I used the same 1/2” plywood to make the top which was sized 7 1/2” wide by 12” long. The legs were made from a prefinished 2” square banister cut into 4 pieces and attached with screws from the top. In retrospect it would have been better to use an unfished 2” x 2” as it would have made staining much easier. The decorative skirting on the front was jig sawed from the top of a wooden gift box. Then additional decorative elements were added to the front using a mix of 1/2” and 1” balsa wood strips that were 1/16” thick. The top of the desk was covered with 1/2” wide balsa wood strips carved with a wire brush exactly as was done for the basing.
For the book shelf the side and shelves were made from the 1/2” thick plywood assembled with glues and nails. The frame is roughly 6” wide and 18” tall with the space between each shelf being 6”. I then covered creating the decorative element on at the top and covered the shelves shelves exactly like the desk. To keep units from sliding off I add small strips of 1/4” square balsa wood to the back of each shelf. Finally I added some vertical molding to the front of both uprights using premade doll house floor boards that were 1/4 scale and came in 36” strips.
