Erik Goddard, Artist

I have once again had the pleasure of being one of a handful of instructors at Miniature in Tune , a week-long summer school dedicated to...

Since this will be a store, and a store needs shelves, the customer asked me to make them. I made a set of shelves for the back wall and...

Staircase For the spiral staircase, I knew because of the 19th-century timeframe that the treads and ironwork will likely involve some...

With some scale model projects the wires to run lights can be made into part of the scene, depending how you arrange things. Anything...

I built the floor and stairs around the same time. Before the floorboards went in I dug channels for some of the wires. The controller is...

Always my weak point when starting a project. There are so many things to consider and so many things have to be done before the...

I will document next the build of a 2-story store in 1:12 scale. The goal is to portray a building as it would have looked in the early...

There is this matter of the kitchen extension. My thinking is that at some point the then-current owners decided they'd had enough trying...

I made the front entrance door out of various bits of wood and glass. This is the interior side: and the outside: The trim on the windows...

As the bedrooms edged toward the finish line, there was some detail work on the other parts of the upper level as well. Here you can see...

This window is going to get scrutinized, given its location in a bedroom, above the kitchen and relatively at eye level. So I had to make...

There are several openings allowing for interior access to Camford. All panels are hinged and lift up. The one on the left exposes the...

The roof is starting to take shape. There are several parts of the roof that have openings for interior access and/or windows. This...

There are many ways to make boards look the part. In this overview I'll show the way I prepped the wood strips to make the hallway floor...

Upstairs in Camford we have two bedrooms and a full bath. The smaller bedroom, shown first, is makes up for its smaller size with a...

This is the unfinished bathroom. See that beam sort of blocking the door? There's a story behind that.... I used a warmer white called...

Work on the upstairs of Camford. It started out as such a clean surface... But soon to change. There will be two bedrooms on the 2nd...

The protrusion Sticking out one end of the house is for the kitchen. This bit was probably added on to the original house at some point...

After several months of not being used, Camford needed a little adjustment here and there, including with the lighting. Getting things in...

With the heavy ceiling beams, the living room really starts to come together. There are LEDs in the fireplace, which I will deal with later.