As lighted porcelain village pieces become more detailed and sophisticated, collectors are desiring to place them in more realistic settings. The Original Village Display Tips books is a basic reference for building displays. Village Display Tips: Volume II is more advanced. Topics include laying out villages around focal points, transitioning one village into another, merging pieces from one village into another effectively, and developing seasonal displays for spring or Halloween. It also includes adding multiple trains and other animation, as well as using wheat lighting to create brighter or more atmospheric displays. There are also more ways to assimilate water - waterfalls and streams; construct mountains and to develop interesting backgrounds. Additionally, instructions are provided to build several projects to detail a display. Whether just starting out or well seasoned, this informative book is another basic resource for all village collectors.
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"I thought the book was terrific. The quality and organization of material was outstanding..." -- Jim - a collector from New Jersey
"I'm so glad that finally there is a resource that is easy to understand, providing so many good ideas." -- Liz - a collector from Nebraska
"I...didn't put it down until I finished it. I'm so excited and motivated to begin working on my displays." -- Susan - a collector from Alabama --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"I'm so glad that finally there is a resource that is easy to understand, providing so many good ideas." -- Liz - a collector from Nebraska
"I...didn't put it down until I finished it. I'm so excited and motivated to begin working on my displays." -- Susan - a collector from Alabama --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Leigh Gieringer is the author of The Original Village Display Tips book and Village Display Updates - several series of themed periodicals on display building ideas and techniques to enhance village display building. She is also the Alpine feature writer for The Village Chronicle, and conducts seminars at various collector gatherings across the country.
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The book was just ok. I thought it was way over priced, I expected to get lots of ideas for building a fabulous display along with directions. There were a few ideas and the discriptions could have been better. I will still use the book and ideas but had I looked at the book before buying it sight unseen, I probably wouldn't have bought it.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Just ok,
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The book has some ideas for pulling together a nice village. However, I think the average user is less interested in how to coordinate the colors of their village in an artsie-fartsie way and more interested in details on how to contruct a village background, how to hide cords, ideas for storage, et. The book does give a couple of examples, but more detail in this area would be more helpful. Overall though it is not a bad book and worth getting as a beginner if for no other reason than I didn't find anything else out there that was better.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Village Display Tips: Volume 2,
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This is a great book to give you some ideas in displaying your villages. It has nice clean pictures and some cool tricks to make water, scenes, ect. The only downfall for me was I wish it had a larger section on mixing trains with village pieces. It does contain a nice chapter on this, but it would be nice to see more info. If just village tips your after, then this is the book for you!
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When one buys, or receives their first piece as a gift, it is easy to insert the light bulb into the house and find a spot to set it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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When one buys, or receives their first piece as a gift, it is easy to insert the light bulb into the house and find a spot to set it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
village pieces, train accessories, hot glued, village displays, plastic snow, low voltage lighting, rope lights, entire display, larger display Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Pole, New England, Snow Village, Doris Platt, Victoria Station, Plaster of Paris, Radio Shack, Mary Ellen, San Diego, Leigh Gieringer New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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