Miniatura

Hi, I’m Erika from Little Deliveries. As a specialist retailer, my main aim is to provide Raptoor Crafting kits to the UK from the EU via my website.

Angela Kinnunen is well known for her 1/48th scale work but she also has a large back catalogue of 1/24th and 1/12th scale kits which I will be stocking & making up to sell in the future.

We’ve been exhibiting at Miniatura together since March 2024, using my dioramas but are predominantly designed to showcase Raptoor Crafting’s kits and hopefully inspire people to step outside their comfort zone.

My inspiration comes from everywhere, I love old films like ‘The Pit & pendulum’ (Angela has a kit of the bed & the slicing axe!). There is a dunking stool for witches, a stretching rack and an electric chair…so I am currently designing a dungeon for the pieces to reside and hopefully never be used. Our medical range includes a surgical light, a wheelchair, a tiny bone saw and my favourite – the tonsillectomy tool amongst other things for the more medically inclined.

When I get an idea, I tend to just run with it. I use the term ‘research’ loosely as, after a Google search of my topic to get accurate detail and the scale correct, I like to give my imagination free reign – I love artistic licence.

I work quite quickly, getting enthralled in whatever I’m making. I start with an idea of what the subject will be but I don’t like making fixed plans, preferring to work organically, so it all tends to grow whichever way my mind wanders. I must admit to being a tool/gadget lover (you name a piece of equipment- I probably have it) from the basics like a large cutting board, tweezers, craft knife, every kind of glue known to mankind (my favourite is UHU in a bottle with a fine tip nozzle) Copic markers (for fine colouring with precision) sharpies, Warhammer paints and Stewart Semple paints (his dense matt black and metallic paints are spectacular)

My mind is brimming with ideas for every piece designed by Raptoor and now for sale in the UK from the Little Deliveries website and I hope other people will feel inspired too.

If you are visiting Miniatura, come & say Hi!