The Lone Ranger Books, plus Another Curved Book Case. A Comic Style of Making Props for my Fantasy Library presented by BB

 

It was a sunny morning and it saw me finishing off another larger curved book shelf for the library.

As the day wore on i was busy making book props! No need to make paper-craft book cases if i cannot fill them with something.  i formulated a system that i will show now,and it concerned The Lone Ranger Comics of yesteryear. One of my favorite reads of my youth,although usually it was the Annuals that came my way year in year out. 

                                   With such a sun the shadows came in for free, so why waste it?

i trolled the internet for all sorts of great comics and these are just a few, where i took a slice of each front cover and added it between two covers thus making an open ended book cover that would fold around some paper strip's. Then they were all glued onto  paper card,and left to dry out before cutting each individual book off the sprue with a very sharp pointed blade, in my craft knife that is working overtime these days and nights too.  And each little prop book settled down into my empty yogurt pot which tends to get to reaching over filling point in no time at all.

A water mark above i will explain a little way to solve this picture collecting problem. Here in this case the books will be so tiny i doubt if anyone would notice it anyway.

i use the smaller strip of pictures in way of repetition to create strips of books of those i wish to print out,

The backing board will be quite curvy indeed and after using thick pva glue it will soon stick tight into place after a few minutes, as if it has been sleeping there since the done and dusted times of The Great War.

A great project to keep one busy as each day with its  wayward  climbs pass away.

Now it is the case that some pictures bear a water mark,but by searching by way of google you can and will find the same picture but without those darn water marks stamped onto them. So they can then be copied. 

The inner toilet roll i used again for the backing as it comes in sort of free,but of course not without cost.

 Where would the world be without toilet paper? Right up the swanny as the old boys of my youth would often say.                                                                                                                                                       

Above the chaos theory shot, it shows the rough and tumble of other books i printed off,but this is an illustration only to show that there is allowance for lots of loose individual books to be slotted in. Yes loose,for this is a game i devised for little hands and finger to pass perhaps a stormy rainy day inside their own home just having lots of patient fun without the need to get annoyed or over anxious!

i enhanced the colours of these old things just to  present them as they once looked like back in the day.

                           As they get smaller it is just a matter of printing out the sizes i need. 

These shelving units of which there are to be many,will be painted and varnished,and the way i paint they will look very soiled lumpy and aged indeed.                                                                                           

And so it is i can print out sheets of books for the fantasy library

imagine a young child looking up at all those books, perhaps like you yourself for the very first time?

                               Well thanks for stopping by,you are always welcome.  BB

Scratch-Building a Curved Book Shelf for The Fantasy Library presented by BB

Printered paper card will be formed into something else, it being folded over twice at its book spine middle in order to create a colourful book cover which is for my use only and not for sale. Although end resaults are not offered for sale, the unorthodox system of things here set out is part of a free tutorial to aid the arts and craft in others during their very own pathways of hopeful interesting endeavours.                                                                                                                

Long before i set upon this pathway of make do with what i have,i determined myself to make thousands of tiny indiviual prop books to fit upon a fine fiddle of home sprung display,that which has never before been seen in my scratch-building quest. It all began soon after i made one tiny book,the smallest book i had ever seen. And so a new game was set afoot to have some real expressive fun over many hours as my eyes grew ever dim in my twilight days ahead of me. i do not find it daunting because i do what i can and do not over ponder that which i can no longer do. My hobby style has simpley taken another side step turn for the better,rather than doing nothing at all. This practice of having so much collective fun is  certainly no idle waste of time. After all 'What is Time',other than something we can actually use?  Being disabled over many years i well know myself what bone idleness is like throughout long tirm illness,it just produces a silent scream within ones self due to identifying that which oddly wastes in measurments that precious gift from God...the real life! 

 i Being all of 76 years young upon an old aged spinning world suspendered longago within outer space, have thought often upon the case of 'Sink or Swim',  while trying to get over the many ordeals ahead of me.  Looking back upon it all i certainly realise it to have been by far an higher education than most get!                                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                             

All will be scribed out with an empty pen,which is another free tool not for chucking away.

                                                           The all important curve! 

                                   i need lots of them,because there are many more to make.

The all inportent Tenplate. Here i skirted around it with a sharp pointed craft knife instead of wasting time by using a pen or pensil.

The thin paper card i bought is not fit for purpose on this build,so the left over inner loo-roll will do just fine and dandy for the job in hand. And it is sort of free and without any real cost to me.

i always use thick waterproof pva glue which is a bit pricey i must admit,but the cheap stuff is mainly watered down glue,which will run everywhere you do not want it to. i decant my trust worthy stuff into an empty pepper pot,and let it dry out over night making it the globbiness contact glue i prize above others.                                                                                                                                                        

i use off-cut pieces of paper card strips to dip and line each edge that needs sticking almost instantly. Well i coat the glob on every small curved bit edge, and let them dryout further usually a couple of minutes. Here to make the main frame up there are only seven pieces to stick.
 

What would we do without toilet paper?

A new toy is born upon the wings of discovering my own inner peace of creative contentment! 

illustration purpose only.

All parts will be painted and varnished!

For myself it is all about applying lots of angles along the roadway of logic,and nothing has to be off the peg high street perfect,after all it is just a loose fitting lovible game anyone can make and play.

There are many more bookcase designs leaping off the drawing board,well really i must say off my chaotic long table  that is happily wedged comfy-like under our stairs in the hallway of my Fiddle Wood home.  

by the way

    i am a story teller and have been all my talkative life,

so i hope you have enjoyed your visite and will call again 

to see the final outcome of this home spun scratch build.   

                                                                      BB