Tuesday, September 1, 2026

1/17/25 Slytherin Common Room

 Well, since I haven't been doing any wargaming for quite a while now, my focus is likely to remain on creating these micro-diorama scenes called booknooks. The ideas just keep coming. I have gifted just about everyone on my Christmas list with them, and now I'm doing one for myself. I will probably give this one away at some point as well. I have limited room for them, unfortunately. But they are great fun to create.

This one is a Harry Potter Wizarding World theme, one of the four houses at Hogwarts School of Wizardry, Slytherin. It is a small section of the Slytherin Common Room. The outside of the case is decorated with the snake shield of Slytherin and the stone face of Salazar Slytherin, the founder of the house. Hope you like.


Just getting started




The floor is 1/4" foam core.  The blocks are impressed with a sharp pencil.

the back is made from two sandwiched pieces of 1/4" foam core 

The wall is 1/4" foam core. The fireplace is repurposed packing foam I saved from the trash. The texture is dry spackling.



Trying out placements

adding details

The gas lantern chandelier 

Gas lanterns half done

The skull and case

The chandelier drying



Bottles were made from hot glue, glass beads, and wood




Finished left wall, roof, floor, and rear wall.

Finished right wall










Sculpting Salazar Slytherin from cosclay


The snake was made from cosclay



The facing and steps are sculpted from 1" XPS foam




This one is now my favorite nook!

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