Customer Reviews

Village Display Tips: Volume II

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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.

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.

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!

If you have an ounce of creativity, don't waste $25. I was hoping for SO much more. Yes, it has photos, many of which aren't even crisply in focus. This is a THIN book, with little descriptions on HOW things are made. Only brief summaries about grouping like buildings together, being symmetrical with the weight of grouping (balance) and repeating like elements; color, shape....

How did this get published? I am going to make my own display and write a better book than what is out there.

Probably a good book for the right people. I thought it would help with scenery design for 1/144th scale dolls' houses and it was not valuable for that purpose. But interesting all the same.

Gave several ways of setting up different village and train scenes. Have not tried them yet but am looking forward to it