Village Scaping From Village Display Tips
Now Available on Video & DVD

Introducing Village Display Tapes: Numerous collectors have also requested a video format to help them develop better displays. Good displays are more than lining up several buildings, at several stepped elevations and lighting them. It is important for the layout to flow throughout the display. Create some focal points, balance the colors and shapes, and bring the viewer into the display. Some people prefer to learn these techniques by watching someone else create them. Therefore, Village Display Tips is adding a new division called Village Display Tapes. If you are the visual type, Village Display Tapes are for you!

Village Scaping: Halloween 101 The premiere tape is called Village Scaping: Halloween 101, this tape will show how to develop a 75” x 33” basic, quick and easy display using styrofoam. Halloween 101 is illustrated with ten Halloween related buildings, and numerous accessories - animated, lighted and static. The tape begins by determining a balanced layout and creating and carving elevations with a hot wire; and proceeds through painting and landscaping techniques, and accessorizing. It is not the purpose of this video to have everyone duplicate the layout, but for viewers to learn more techniques to help them develop their own layouts, for them to increase their enjoyment of the hobby of collecting porcelain buildings, and to develop the confidence to build better displays. It IS intended to get the creative juices flowing by thinking outside the box. Techniques used can be applied to any size village or any other village, by adding more display area; and/or changing the choice of buildings, accessories and coloration to suit that village. Therefore, although it features a Halloween motif, collectors of any other villages will learn from this video. It is approximately one hour in length. Halloween 101 is available on DVD or Video for $24.95 each, plus shipping and handling.

Village Scaping: Creating a Large Village Display (DVD) Now that you have all these beautiful little porcelain buildings, what can you do with them? Step One: Don’t be intimidated. Step Two: Take them out of the boxes. Step Three: Watch the video! Developing a Large Village Display will feature two separate North Pole Villages (through 2003). Each includes approximately 100 buildings and hundreds of accessories. The video’s intent is to assist collectors in organizing and creating large village settings. One display has been created using styrofoam and glass blocks. The other - a more permanent display - is constructed out of wood and features the excellence of J. Michael Sanders. Each showcases various building materials, unique building placement and various techniques to make a dynamic and striking village. Lighting effects, animation, conserving space, detailing, “Polarizing” non-North Pole buildings - in case you want more buildings, are only some of the topics covered in this tape. Although this video features the North Pole, many of the ideas and techniques used can also be applied to other villages. Just add your favorite buildings. You can do it, too! It is approximately one hour in length. Developing a Large Village Display is available on DVD for $24.95 each, plus shipping and handling.

Featuring:
David Shostac - Flute/ Antoinette Perry, Piano

Village Scaping: Village Vignettes (DVD) Display Techniques for Year ‘Round Enjoyment It’s interesting how collecting porcelain houses is habit forming. Collectors have been showcasing their Christmas villages for decades; however, something seems to be missing when the little buildings are put away in their little boxes after the Holidays. It’s called Sensory Deprivation. There is a huge void! But, there’s also a cure! Displaying porcelain houses has transcended patches of winter snow and Christmas wreaths. Holly Red and Hunter Green can be replaced with Lipstick Red for Valentine’s Day and Kelly Green for St. Patrick’s Day. Consider creating small, but versatile vignettes and change the buildings periodically. Although Village Vignettes features seasonal themes, the techniques used throughout the tape can be applied to any village: large or small - or any season: spring, summer,autumn or winter. The format of this video is a 48” round board, divided into four quadrants...one for each season. Each has it’s own background. Learn to carve the landscape, add a stream, develop an oceanfront, create paths, bridges or decks, or hide the white bases. These are only a few of the topics shown and discussed on the Village Vignettes video. It’s filled with numerous ideas to keep a display up throughout the year, to switch them for a new look, or to be included in a large winter display. This video is easy to follow and very informative. No matter which village you collect, this video will provide lots of village scaping ideas for inclusion into your next display. Just add your favorite buildings. You can do it, too! It is approximately one hour in length. Village Vignettes is available on DVD for $24.95 each, plus shipping and handling.

Village Scaping: A Christmas Story (DVD)
Developing City Streets
The development of a layout is centered around the placement of the buildings. The spaces between groups of buildings are as important as the buildings themselves. They create a visual relief from the intricate architectural structures, separate sets of buildings from each other and provide interest. They form streets, courtyards, hardscapes and areas for accessorizing. Streets are an integral part of any village scene: the old streets of London, fancy boulevards in The City, the charming avenues in Snow Village, winding back roads of New England or Halloween, pathways in Alpine, and the fanciful arterials in North Pole. Even a simple display will require streets around the buildings. And, if time or space are limitations to constructing mountains, water and backgrounds, it is both quick and easy to dress up your display very cost effectively with items found in home improvement stores. But, how do you work with them?

A Christmas Story, featuring Dickens’ The Christmas Carol buildings, shows the viewer how to develop a beautiful display using linoleum, porcelian and slate tiles, as well as travertine bricks to form city streets and retaining walls. Not only are they realistic, they can set the mood and formality of the scene by enhancing the buildings which are placed on them. They are easy to use and create impact! The DVD also shows how to use an engraving tool to create your own cobblestones and retaining walls; as well as to weather accessories - aging them to fit into the setting better, and more! The items used are only a small selection of what is available. Make your selection based on the coloration and style of your chosen buildings. Cool grays or warm taupes: most pieces blend best with one or the other. Strong burgundies, royal blues or purples might accent North Pole buildings. Simulated marble patterns formalize special buildings. Larger displays can use a variety of coordinated choices. Small vignettes may be limited to one special selection. Just add your favorite buildings.

Music by David Shostac - www.davidshostac.com

Used with perrmission:
Flute solo by David Shostac, from his CD Romantic Flute II,
The Swan from Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint-Saëns
and Schön Rosmarin - Fritz Kreisler

Directed by Sasa Skoko and Leigh Gieringer

Village Scaping: A Christmas Story $24.95

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