Postcard Models by L'Instant Durable

[asettico]

Really nice little gems! Beautiful!

[Philip]

Well, I got up off my backside at long last and took my lazy self on a walking tour. It was a long one as it needed to cover the first, second and fourth districts of the city. My feet hurt. Or as I remember people used to say, "my dogs are barking".

- Hotel de Sully, Place de l'Opera (Cafe de la Paix)
- Rue de Rivoli, Quai des Orfevres

Woof-woof!

[Mike Stamper]

Nice models Philip. I agree with your comments about the card - unfortunately it doesn't help the looks of the buildings, but you seem to have got round that problem.

I found that delaminating the tabs helped.

Cheers
Mike

[Philip]

Another departure from architecture were the folks in their finery featured on these cards who are presented in the manner of dress-up dolls, where you are presented with a figure in their underwear upon which outer garments can be hung by means of tabs at the edges of the clothing. As the costumes include both a front and a rear face the two sides need to be glued together so making it impossible to undress your doll. You shouldn't be looking anyway. Here we have:

- Robe a la Pompadour (1759), Habit a la francaise (vers 1760)
- Robe Empire (1806), Officier de la Garde Napoleonienne (1805)
- Robe de bal 1912 (Paul Poiret)
- ditto, from the back

[Don Boose]

A nive chnge of pace, Philip!

I like these paper people, and can hear Mouret's Rondeau (known here in the States as the Masterpiece Theater theme) playing as I look at them, although I guess that piece was played somewhat earlier than the time of these folks.

Don

[Philip]

It were wireandpaper's recent threads demonstating his excellent reworking of L'Instant Durable's Clos Luce and Kerjean postcards that prompted me to realise that I've been ignoring this thread for far too long. So here's a couple more cards to be getting on with:

- Chateau de Sully-sur-Loire, Chateau de Loches

There was a third example built but I put it in a now undiscoverable safe place. Oh dear.

[Vermin_King]

Nice. My 'undiscoverable place' is a particularly destructive child in the neighborhood

[wireandpaper]

Originally Posted by Philip

It were wireandpaper's recent threads demonstating his excellent reworking of L'Instant Durable's Clos Luce and Kerjean postcards that prompted me to realise that I've been ignoring this thread for far too long. So here's a couple more cards to be getting on with:

- Chateau de Sully-sur-Loire, Chateau de Loches

There was a third example built but I put it in a now undiscoverable safe place. Oh dear.

Thank you Philip, I have to say that the inspiration of my builds of L'Instant Durable came from this thread! I hope that we could continue enjoying your upcoming postcard minimodels!