Carving a Miniature Beehive

This is a fun and easy little project where I make a two inch tall beehive. You can make this project or you can use it as an example to see that you can make all kinds of miniatures with just a few scraps of balsa wood and some paint. That's all it takes!

Well, if you are smitten by bees and all thing "bee" you might like this little balsa wood beehive that I sculpted. I made it for a diorama project on my other website: WillKalif.com

If you want to make one I will give you some easy instruction with pictures on how to make one. Lot of fun and looks pretty neat. You can see the beehive in picture below and it looks like a pretty realistic Langstroth Hive but it is only 2 inches in height :)

For the beehive I just cut three small pieces of balsa wood. (I also used two more pictures for the gray bricks under the hive)

The big piece is the hive proper and the two flat pieces are the top and bottom of the hive.

I glued the top and bottom onto the hive then I used a tool to indent the handles and to score two lines across the hive, these act as the divisions between the boxes.

This picture shows how I finished off the hive. First I painted it white then I rescored anything that needed a little bit of definition like the box lines horizontally across the hive. I then added tiny bees with a sharp pencil! They are all gathered around the opening of the hive.

Finally I added two gray bricks underneath.

Here is a look at the finished diorama that I used this beehive in. If you are interested in making dioramas I have a tutorial on how I made this one right here: The Tree Diorama

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1. Miniature Home
2. Miniature Painting intro & overview
3. Painting Miniatures Tutorial start
4. The Paints
5. Preparing the Miniature for painting
6. Priming the Miniature
7. What to paint first
8. More Painting and the details
9. Close-up of the completed Warhorse
10. Adding texture to the base for realism
11. Tips and hints for painting miniatures
12. Diorama and Miniature supply Store
13. New Painting Miniature Tutorial: A Spartan Warrior
14. VIDEO TUTORIAL: How to paint miniatures
15. Miniature Paints and kits at Amazon
16. Ral Partha Miniatures
17. Links and info about manufacturers of miniatures
18. Understanding Miniature Scale
19. How to Make Foam Terrain for wargaming or dioramas
20. How to Cast Miniatures
21. Model Railroad and Trains

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1. Part 1 - intro
2. Part 2 - Drawings
3. Part 3 - Making Wire Armatures
4. Part 4 - Your first miniature 6"
5. Part 5 - Make a 3" miniature
6. Part 6 - the musculature of the 3" miniature Viking Warrior
7. Part 7 - Our first Armor - we sculpt the viking helmet
8. Part 8 - Sculpting leather and chainmail
9. Part 9: Adding Belt, bracers and boots
10. Part 10:Painting the miniature
11. Part 11: 25mm Female Warrior
12. Part 12 : The basic shape of the mini
13. Part 13: Completing the body
14. Part 14: Adding the swords and doing detail
15. Part 15: Painting and finishing the miniature
16. Sculpting Fantasy Miniatures Video Tutorials
17. Sculpting miniatures store- all the supplies you need.
18. Sculpting tips
19. Sculpt a Dwarf
20. Sculpt a Treasure Chest
21. Sculpt a miniature Raver and Gegenhound

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