Jennian's Fieldays stand is child's play

It could be well be the smallest of showhomes - or a pretty big dolls' house.
Either way, one of the exhibits at Jennian Homes' stand at this year's Fieldays is sure to create a stir.
A long-standing relationship sees Jennian Homes share a stand with rural retailer RD1 at the New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays that runs until Saturday.
This year Jennian's Tauranga-based franchisee support centre has commissioned the construction of a 1:12 scale model of its Koru home to be given away as a dolls house in a raffle at the end of the event.
The idea looked to have stalled when investigations found that to build an architectural model would be prohibitive.
"We looked all over the country to find someone who could do it and in the end found someone here in Tauranga," says business development manager Dave Wilson.
That "somebody" was David McKibbin, who build the scale model/dolls' house.
David used customwood to build the house, that has fully-furnished rooms complete with pictures on the walls, a removable, three-sectioned roof and its own base.
David spent 43 years as a cabinet maker and has also worked as a boat builder and picture framer. He started DZM Design, making doll houses and architectural models five months ago after being made redundant.
The Koru house took him around four weeks to finish, with David working from a full set of drawings.
"I just divided everything by 12," he says.
A more traditional doll house that he created is in the Cargo Shed on Dive Crescent.
"He's real craftsman and he jumped into doing this boots and all," says Dave.