The House from Up is added to the neighborhood

The house from the Disney movie Up

Just for variety I added one more house to the neighborhood. I found this great Up house over at Paper Replika that fit in perfectly size wise with the rest of the houses. A very nicely designed model, with just a couple of tricky bits, especially the posts around and above the porch, each of those is a separate piece. This last house adds a nice bit of whimsy to the display.

Disney Haunted Mansion Paper Models

Haunted Mansion Disney France

There are several great buildings over at Haunted Dimensions (link to right) based around attractions at Disney and Universal Studios. We used 3 different buildings for our haunted neighborhood. This first model is of the Haunted Mansion in Paris Disney. A wonderful model that is about a foot on each side. This model only needed a few minor additions for our display.

Bottom of model

First, during construction, I cut a whole in the bottom of the floor which made it easier to build the model. This allowed me to put my hand inside to apply support while assembling the mode.

Showing outside and inside of railings on roof.

Next up were the railings, in the model there were two versions. One version was printed on clear acetate and the second was printed on the same cardstock as the model. The cardstock version ended up looking great from the outside, but the back of the railing (visible here on the roof) was just white. So I printed up a second set of railings and glued those to the back, making the railings two sided and giving it a nice finished look.

Porch area, showing finished inside railing

I encountered the same unfinished problem on the porch, so I used the same technique to finish the insides of the porch as well as the outsides. This is a technique I copied from the Ravensblight models (see previous post) which left no white paper showing anywhere.

Disneyworld Haunted Mansion model

Next I made the model of the Disneyworld Haunted Mansion in Florida. This is another fine model from Haunted Dimensions.

Disneyworld Haunted Mansion Roof Railing

This model had the same problem of the white unfinished inside of the roof railing, so once again I simply printed out two copies of the railing and made the railing two sided, problem solved.

Bates House

The final model from Haunted Dimensions is the Bates House from Universal Studios Tour (Psycho movie). The porch railings were finished in the same manner as the previous models.

Haunted Dimensions also has a wonderful model of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion in California, but I am saving that one for next year.