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[dreamflower]

Thanks to coneygoil I finally am able to post some pics of my recent projects.

 

 

Here is polymer!Frodo, from several views.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is my model of Bag End.  I used $40.00 worth of styrofoam, resin eggs, polymer clay, grapevine wire, floral picks and the odds and ends off broken silk flowers, 4 bags of reindeer moss, a bag of polished pebbles, and a bag of fake dirt sold for model RR sets, and 140 hot glue sticks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The back is still a bit unfinished, but I don't want to completly cover it, as I would lose the kitchen window that way.  The veggies in the garden, the front and back steps, the well and the bird bath (and robin) and the mushrooms are all poly clay.  The windows and doors are painted with acrylics.

 

 

So now *I* have spammed with pics!

Comments

[dreamflower]

I didn't really make it to any particular scale; I think that some of the details, such as the well and the vegetable garden and the roses are a bit large for the rest.

I got the styrofoam at Michael's of course, which is where employee discounts come in handy, LOL. If you look a the back, you can see that the bottom base styrofoam is a different kind than what I used on the "hill". The bottom styrofoam was expensive, a large block of the rather hard kind, which was good and sturdy for the base. The upper styrofoam is the sort usually sold for floral arrangements called "dry foam"; it has a denser texture and is very easy to carve and cut with nothing more than a kitchen knife; it's also a lot less expensive, but only comes in blocks of about 3x3x6. However, you can buy it in bulk packages of about 8 blocks for around 2 bucks, and as I said, it is easy to cut.

If you look closely, you can see the little doors, roofs and chimneys sticking out on two sides where the windows are painted. Those were the little resin "easter egg houses" that I covered first with the styrofoam and then with the reindeer moss. I carved out the "dry foam" to fit around them, hot glued it in place, and then covered the whole structure with the moss. The moss is very forgiving and covers easily all the little cracks and crevices and softens the corners. So if you want to build a hill around your Bag End, that would probably work for you as well. I can also tell you how to do the trees, if you are interested.