I have no idea if there is such a thing, but if there is, I’ve got it.
Last time you caught up with me I was just going to make the boxes for my gift with purchase.
Days ago.
This is what I was dealing with. On the left the 12th scale plates, on the right the 24th scale plates.
There are enough for the first 100 shoppers on Saturday and enough for the first 100 on Sunday, in your chosen scale. Which means that there have to be spares. Whilst a 24th scale cake slice and plate would not be too awful in a 12th scale house, a 48th scale plate and cake would be lost. Equally if you put a 12th scale plate and cake in your small 48th house, you’d be in Land Of The Giants territory.
Here are some of the 24th scale plates on the left and the 48th on the right.
See any you fancy?
I made two hundred boxes and a few spares, which took two days.
Then I spread out all the plates on the dining table and all of the cakes and what I hoped was 400 tiny finger seal bags, which are 25mm square.
Opening 400 tiny bags with my fingernails was going to hurt but I ran out of bags after only 150 boxes. I have sent for more.
Every plate was tried with several slices of cake because it would be very annoying if your slice of cake didn’t fit on your plate. Having made each match, each part was put in a finger seal bag, so they won’t fall on the floor and get lost in the show, and you can break your mystery box open with impunity.
These are the 24th plates.
Do any catch your eye?
When the bags arrive tomorrow I shall finish the job. What is certain is that if you buy something from me at the show you will have a slice of birthday cake and a plate to put it on that fits, and that shows you were there at the 100th event.
There will never be another 100th Miniatura, which my fingernails are quite glad about.
All information about the show is at www.miniatura.co.uk
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